Designing a system using the concept of progress over that of supremacy beings. How are you helping in the progress of the world? 

Systems Thinking, an MBA By Podcast

God as Progress

ASSIGNMENT: Design an experiemnt you can conduct at work, who or what would oppose it? 

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT EXPERIMENTATION

ASSIGNMENT: WHEN RESPONDING TO AN AWKWARD SOCIAL SITUATION, WHOM DO YOU IMITATE?

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOUR

ASIGNMENT: WHO IS EXCLUDED FROM GIVING EVIDENCE IN YOUR DECISION MAKING. 

SYSEMS THINKING ABOUT POSTMODERNISM (EVIDENCE)

ASSIGNMENT: WHO DO YOU OR YOUR ORGANISATION IMITATE WHEN MAKING DECISIONS. 

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT DECISION MAKING

ASSIGNMENT: DRAFT A STSTEMENT OF PURPOSE FOR YOURSELF OR YOUR ORGANISATION, WHAT ARE YOUR OR ITS FIVE CORE CONCEPTS THAT PROVIDE PURPOSE?

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT PURPOSE

ASSIGNMNET: ARE YOU AND YOUR ORGANISATION CONTINUALLY INCREASING YOUR FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL CAPITAL, HOW MIGHT THIS IMPROVE. 

SYSTEMS THINING ABOUT CAPITALISM

ASSIGNMENT: THINK OF A PROBLEM YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN RECENTLY IDENTIFY THE SOURCES USED TO COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS 

NETWORKS AS PROBLEM SOLVING SYSTEMS

ASSIGNMENT: DESCRIBE YOUR ORGANISATION, OR SELF, AS A FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT. WHAT ARE THE HISTORIC AND FUTURE CASHFLOWS INTO AND OUT OF THIS SYSTEM? 

SYSTEMS AS FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

ASSIGNMENT: THINK OF A RECENT NEGOTIATION IN YOUR ORGANISATION OR IN YOUR OWN LIFE. WHAT WERE THE CONCEPTS IN TENSION, WAS IT CREATIVE, WAS THERE COOPERATION, COULD YOU GO BACK AND RE NEGOTIATE WITH THE SAME PEOPLE WITH NO RESIDUE BAD FEELINGS. HOW MIGHT THINGS HAVE BEEN IMPROVED. 

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT NEGOTIATION

ASSIGNMENT: HOW DOES YOUR ORGANISATION MAKE SENSE OF ITSELF AND THE WORLD, WHAT CRITERIA DOES IT ASSUME TO UNDERTAKE THAT INTERPRETATION. 

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT SENSEMAKING

ASSIGNMENT: USE NIALL FERGUSONS SIX APPS TO MAKE SUGGESTIONS HOW YOUR ORGANISATION COULD BECOME MORE PROSPEROUS BY IMPROVING ITS PRODUCTS AND SERVICES. 

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT PROSPERITY

ASSIGNMENT: FORECAST THE FUTURE DEMAND FOR SOMETHING CORE TO THE FUTURE SUCCESS OF YOUR ORGANISATION.

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT FORECASTING

ASSIGNMENT:USE A RECENT EVENT THAT OCCURED TO YOUR ORGANISATION, AND ASK YOURSELF WHAT WHERE THE POSSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT EVENT, PERHAPS GRAPH THEM, REFLECT OFF THE SET OF CONCEPTS OR ORGANISING PRINCIPLES YOU WERE US8NG TO DIRECT YOUR DECISION MAKING. 

SYSTEMS THINKING ABOUT CONSEQUENCES

ASSIGNMENT: HOW WOULD YOU GET YOUR IMMEDIATE GROUP To AGREE A SET OF CONCEPTS OR ORGANISING PRINCIPLES TO COORDINATE THEIR DECISION MAKING. 

SYSTEMS THINKING: LEADERSHIP

An MBA is an education in how design useful human systems, including enterprises, communities, commercial businesses, government policy and your own life. This podcast series therefore uses Systems Thinking.