The Journey to Wisdom

• Socila Learning From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (12 hours old)

  The social dimension of learning suggests the existence of a group mind that takes the form of cognitive interdependence centered on memory processes. People working together give life to a single tra… more

• The Social Theory of the Mind From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (2 days old)

  The social theory of the mind was refined by Cooley who maintained that thought consists of an imaginary conversation with the self and that society is the mind of all individuals. Thus, society is a … more

• Social Realism From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (4 days old)

  Margaret Archer, the founder of social realism asserts that rather than producing the society, individuals/agents transform or reproduce the society; yet always on the basis of something that was alre… more

• Learning-Beings From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (7 days old)

  Michael Oakeshott (1972) has referred to as a 'civilised inheritance of enduring traditions of thinking that may lie beyond the compass of their current life-world preoccupations'. To obtain such a wh… more

• A Cybernetic View of Knowledge From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (9 days old)

  In his Steps to an Ecology of Mind Bateson (2000) makes several points concerning our relationship to a greater whole that, taken in themselves, possess a high degree of plausibility—and importance. … more

• Fundamentals of Science From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (11 days old)

  Science is based on presupposition. The goal is to test and revise the old presuppositions and to create new ones. Bateson reminds us of the following characteristics of science: - Science never pr… more

• Organisational Knowledge From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (14 days old)

  Regarding the knowledge development within the organisations they are two main approaches. According to the representational approach, there is a pre-given world. This approach is based on the belie… more

• In Defense of Collective Knowledge From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (16 days old)

  A narrowly Cartesian understanding of knowledge tended to privilege ‘pure’ knowledge at the expense of outlining forms of social life that sustain particular types of knowledge. Nonaka and Takeuchi ar… more

• World-making From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (18 days old)

  The social world cannot be understood in the same way as natural and physical worlds. What sets social world apart is meaning. To understand this meaning requires one to recognize the discursive patte… more

• Thrownness From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (21 days old)

  Quantum theory and chaos theory suggest that the experience of thrownness should not surprise us. The world is less like a machine and more like patterns of relationships. The patterns are unknowable … more

• The Technology of Science From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (28 days old)

  The relation of knowledge and power is a very important question in every age. The idea “knowledge is power” has a specific meaning as in the modern age science has a highly technological characterist… more

• Imagination From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (29 days old)

  One of the key facilities of the human mind is imagination. The primary components of the mind include memory, imagination and invention working in harmony to allow the individual to know the world. T… more

• The Fluidity of Life From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (32 days old)

  No matter how thorough we are, there is a fundamental truth that cannot be avoided: there are always holes in wholeness. Life calls forth life, continually striving towards wholeness. While there are… more

• Dealing with Emergent Change From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (35 days old)

  There is an ever-present tension between two natural forces of change (Holman, 2009): • a drive for coherence -- for relationship, unity, community, wholeness – a coming together. Similar to atoms … more

• Invoking Emergence From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (37 days old)

  The word "emergence" is usually related to surprises. By definition, if we know the steps to generate the desired outcomes, then emergence isn't happening. Yet, just because specific outcomes are unpr… more

• Complex Processes of Human Relating From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (39 days old)

  The insights into the complexity sciences can be applied to human organisations. Organisations are comprised of a large number of individual agents who interact locally. They also have the ability to … more

• The Nature of Wisdom From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (42 days old)

  Wisdom is often defined as an ability to make right choices. Dr. Robert Sternberg, a professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University, defines wisdom as the application of intelligence and exp… more

• Forms of Knowledge From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (44 days old)

  Contrary to the English language, the Welsh language has at least six different terms for knowledge processes and types of knowledge, each with their distinct meaning. The general word for knowledge i… more

• Dealing with "Big Bang Problems" of Life From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (46 days old)

  When we look out into the future and try our best to make wise decisions, we only find ourselves staring into uncertainties. It happens to all of us that we confront this deeper dilemma: How do we str… more

• Religion in a Postmodern Society From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (49 days old)

  Before the practitioners of New or Alternative Spiritualities are influencing the twenty-first century such as Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer,Dalai Lama, Charles Leadbeater, Shirley Maclaine, Rudolf Steine… more

• The Evolution of the Complex Organization From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (51 days old)

  Complexity science might appear to have no relation to the organizational studies. Yet, it is at the core of today's network organization. An overview of the evolution of the organization might make t… more

• Complexity Science for Every Day Life From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (53 days old)

  Although the science of complex systems was initially applied to physical and biological systems, its application to human organizations has become more widely recognized. Complex systems dynamical… more

• Science & Spirituality From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (56 days old)

  Both science and spirituality search for the truth, but use completely different tools and interpret their results on completely different grounds. As Albert Einstein (1940)said "Science without faith… more

• The Science of Religion From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (58 days old)

  There is a vast number of potential religious concepts, beliefs, and practices. Is there something that religious concepts have in common that explains why they have been preserved and passed down to … more

• The Spiritual Evolution From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (63 days old)

  Spiritual growth is a journey into a greater macrocosm. In its earlier stages, it is a journey of knowledge and not of faith. In order to escape the microcosm of our previous experiences we must learn… more

• Sensing the Whole From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (65 days old)

  A system is composed of parts, yet it cannot be understood by only looking at its parts. We need to work with the whole of a system, even as we work with individual parts or isolated problems. From a … more

• Sailing through Chaos From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (67 days old)

  The mechanistic view promised us lives of continual progress. Since we were in control and engineering it all, we believe that we could pull ourselves straight uphill. But life doesn't work that way. … more

• Wisdom & Leadership From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (70 days old)

  Leaders need behavioural and cognitive complexity to be able to respond effectively to organisational needs. Behavioural complexity identifies a person’s capacity to cope with “the interplay of a … more

• Wise Leadership From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (72 days old)

  Being sceptical of the “facts”, orthodoxy, and “common sense” and showing a fluid intelligence (Sternberg, 2007) are well-known aspects of wisdom. Wise people focus at the right level or aspect by cho… more

• Timelessness From aysekok in The Journey to Wisdom (74 days old)

  An astronomer asked his Master what time means. The Master said:"You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit ac… more

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