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You are hereby invited to a seminar in our sixth
interdisciplinary
<http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108>series on
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition (ECCO)
Time: Thursday, Oct. 29, 2-4 pm.
Place: Room B 0.036
(building B, level 0, close to the human sciences
computer rooms), on the
<http://www.vub.ac.be/english/infoabout/campuses/index.html>VUB
Campus Etterbeek (Brussels, Belgium), in
collaboration with MOSI. Coffee and drinks are
available. Free entrance: everybody welcome!
Leadership and Human Experience
Jon Echanove (<http://www.ease-echanove.com/>EASE)
In the last 20 years a new society structure is
emerging: global, interconnected and
informational. Its immediate future shape is
beyond our knowledge today.
How are organizations and leaders experiencing
this new society? The new economic environment is
characterised by high levels of uncertainty and
unpredictability, emptying the efficacy of the
classical management tools and challenging the
traditional understanding of organizations and
leadership principles.
Evolutionary economists have pointed out the need
to generate internal diversity in order to
increase the chances for survival. With that in
mind management science has turned its eyes
towards human beings as the ultimate driver for
success of organizations. However, structures and
managers are still far away from enabling the
necessary freedom to explore in order to
stimulate the internal diversity and creativity.
What is making it so hard?
In order to enable the discovery, it is probably
time to abandon the search for the fundamental
and absolute laws of management that detach
themselves from the actual human beings
experience. New leadership principles are needed,
based in an open experience of approaching the
world that enables a permanent focus on the
unexpected, the unsaid, the unplanned and the
so-called anomalies amongst people and processes.
Upcoming Seminars
5 Nov.
David R. Weinbaum (Tel Aviv Univ.):
Thoughts on the future of human evolution
12 Nov.
Petter Braathen (Memetix, Oslo):
How do social systems relate to paradox?
19 Nov.
Hector Zenil (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne):
Is algorithmic the nature of Nature?
Dec. 2 (Wed.)
Solomon Marcus (Romanian Academy of Sciences):
Mistakes and failures as a source of creativity
More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108
--
Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
"... a wealth of information creates a
poverty of attention" - Herbert A. Simon
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Simon>
