More or Less Useful is a series of seven discussions between Chris Heald and John Beckford exploring his interpretation of the supradiscipline of organisational cybernetics and its role in addressing contemporary challenges.
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Blogs are driven by observations of the world and interactions with other people, experiences that cause us to pause and think, to be amused or annoyed! Blogs are generally incomplete thoughts, not fully explored but intended to stimulate the reader to reflection
I recall that the first question posed to me by the External Examiner for my doctoral viva (a thesis on the application of cybernetic ideas to organisations) was: “So John, is what you are proposing here an alternative bureaucracy?” Frankly I have no idea how I answered it at the time, well enough I suppose since I passed. It
