Autopoiesis
Chaos and Complexity
Mutual Causality
Dialectic Change
Strengths & Limitations
100
The relationship between this bug and its ecology can represent the circular relationship described by autopoiesis
What is a bee?
100
________ can emerge from chaos within an organization.
What is order?
100
Circular, not linear
What is the nature of change within a system?
100
Dialectic change details the exchange of ________
What are propositions?
100
Members can impact the system through their "insights about system dynamics and the nature of change to determine how and where to intervene"
What is the butterfly effect?
200
This egocentric organization may do anything to sustain their identity
What is a watchmaking company?
200
There is no way to _____ how interactions will affect an organization
What is predict?
200
This market can be representative of mutual causality
What is the housing market?
200
Unlike other principals of flux and transformation, dialectic change requires individuals to think in linear motions
What is false?
200
The order of change only becomes apparent with ________.
What is hindsight?
300
These two men challenged traditional theories of organizations as open systems
Who are Maturana and Varela?
300
This results when attractors become multiple and offset each other
What is equilibrium?
300
Only negative feedback can make change to organizations
What is false?
300
Two examples of dialectic change
What is hot will be cold? And what is goes up will come down? (What is yin and yang?)
300
______ and ________ feedback loops define the fields of relations.
What are positive and negative?