Universities have been around for a long time. Several generations exist and they appear to follow an exponential acceleration. The first generations have intervals taking centuries. Today universities just entered the 3rd generation, yet a 4th generation is popping up already. The exponential acceleration reached a tipping point. This 4th…

Recently I found myself talking with colleagues on transition management about mass psychology and successive groups of people. How the different mindsets give us insight on improving transition management. The concept of successive groups originates from marketing and popped up surprisingly in my research on collective intelligence. …

In a time where group-thinking has reached suffocating proportions by social media the idea to push onwards and find liberation by a hive mind requires some explanation. In this article I combine social technology with the stage of SECI-model (Nonaka 1998) to build up the concept that can elaborate the…

How humans hacked evolution and became unfit Over the last century we have undergone a journey from all-out World Wars, to cold wars, to the war on sensemaking. It has become softer, but the warfare rhetorics still stays. In this article I will elaborate on a problem articulated by left-wing organisations: the patriarchy integrated in our system…

The darkest and coldest moment of a night is before the light breaks through. The same appears to happen to sense making. The industrial worldview has gone into a dark and cold place, but a new worldview is breaking though. I like to call it the animate worldview. Animate as…

Big events cast their shadow before hand and the future is here, it is just not equally distributed. …

This article was originally posted in sociocracy30 where a conversation is happening around the deeper insights into the nature of organizations as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). It was an interesting choice of words. The hidden order of CAS gives us insights on the origin of life. While “deeper insights” has…