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Seeing Systems, 2nd Edition
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Seeing Systems, 2nd Edition

by Barry Oshry
August 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
272 pages
5h 16m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Scene 3 The Politics of System Processes

All organic systems—from the split-leaf

philodendron to the common earthworm to

General Motors—engage in similar system

processes. They individuate, integrate,

differentiate, and homogenize. What distinguishes

human systems from all other organic systems is

that we think about these processes, we believe in

them, we attach value to them, we politicize them,

we favor one over the other.

54 Huddlers and Humanists . . . Enough With Consensus!

Some Words of Caution for Those Who Worship Togetherness Sometimes we like huddling— thinking together, planning together, deciding together. And sometimes we believe in huddling. Together is the way we should think, plan, decide everything.

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ISBN: 9781576755358