The leadership of emergence: A complex systems leadership theory of emergence at successive organizational levels

Complexity science reframes leadership by focusing on the dynamic interactions between all individuals, explaining how those interactions can, under certain conditions, produce emergent outcomes. We develop a Leadership of Emergence using this approach, through an analysis of three empirical studies which document emergence in distinct contexts. Each of these studies identifies the same four “conditions” for emergence: the presence of a Dis-equilibrium state, Amplifying actions, Recombination/“Self-organization”, and Stabilizing feedback. From these studies we also show how these conditions can be generated through nine specific behaviors which leaders can enact, including: Disrupt existing patterns through embracing uncertainty and creating controversy, Encourage novelty by allowing experiments and supporting collective action, Provide sensemaking and sensegiving through the artful use of language and symbols, and Stabilize the system by Integrating local constraints. Finally, we suggest ways for advancing a meso-model of leadership, and show how our findings can improve complexity science applications in management.     

共青团青年动员发展轨迹解析

1949--1977年,中国共产主义共青团在有计划地动员中经历了迅速增长、缓慢停滞和恢复发展三个阶段．团员人数从90万人增长到4700多万,这一组织也发展成为全国青年的组织核心和青年运动的领导核心。这一时期共青团青年动员的成功策略主要表现为动员政策、动员结构和动员方式三个方面。在计划经济和阶级斗争的社会氛围下,团员不仅是政治身份的标签,还是稀缺的政治资源,对青年有着极大的吸引力。共青团通过建立从中央到基层、层次分明、覆盖全国的动员结构,结成了完善的动员网络;通过采用自上而下的政治宣传教育,保证了动员渠道的畅通和动员力的实现。     

Towards a Comprehensive Typology of Knowledge for Social Work and Alcohol

This article presents a theoretical model of knowledge acquisition by social workers with regards to alcohol, which formed the propositional element of a recently awarded doctoral thesis submission. It begins by briefly contextualising the relationship between alcohol and social work, the profession's response to the increasing sense of alcohol-related issues in workloads and calls for more effective intervention responses. In considering how this is often reflected in demands for social workers to receive more education about alcohol, it critically examines existing considerations of possible typologies of knowledge for social work, before encapsulating them within a model focusing on alcohol. The model suggests that any such typology is likely to be composed of multiple sources, including both codified and non-codified elements. It concludes by considerations of some of the implications for research approaches that could be used to gain a better understanding of these knowledge frameworks. In doing so it proposes that it is through these alternative considerations that more holistic understandings of social work knowledge will be established. Discussion of the implications of working within more inclusive knowledge frameworks, for social work education, policy, practice and research, are contained throughout the article.     

数学教育改革与素质教育

数学教育在知识经济时代大学生的素质教育中具有独特地位和重要作用。要重视目前高校数学教育中存在的主要问题,改革数学教育,探索提高学生素质的方法和途径。     

基于控制论的宏观经济分析方法

针对宏观经济系统中存在的复杂多变性,文章从控制论角度对宏观经济系统的控制论分析方法及主要调控手段、应用效果作了简要反思。文章指出,为了取得预期的经济效果,在经济分析中应更多地关注复杂多变性因素对宏观经济的影响。     

近现代蒙古王公双重的历史角色

在中国近现代史上,蒙古王公有着庞大的群体,广袤的领地,位尊权重,声名显赫。在近现代的中国与蒙古扮演了复杂而又矛盾的历史角色:是中央政权统治蒙古的工具,是蒙古人民的剥削压迫者,是蒙古近代化的推动者与阻碍者,是民族分裂的罪人与维护祖国统一的功臣。究其根源,是蒙古王公的自私的、狭隘的封建统治阶级本质所致。     

Designing and facilitating collaboration in R&D: A case study

This case study aims to highlight the strategic decisions and managerial practices in the formation and operation of a co-located research unit within a national laboratory. The empirical evidence is based on interviews with members of the research unit as well as responses from a research environment survey. The findings of the case study suggest specific strategies that are conducive not only for the co-location of research units but also for research management in general. Principal among these are the need to balance increases in diversity and complexity with mechanisms of integration and the use of specific management practices and leadership qualities that support these activities.     

对科学发展观理论内涵的认识

本文就以胡锦涛总书记为核心的第四代领导集体提出的科学发展观这一科学理论,从科学发展的角度强调了“以人为本”,全面体现了社会主义本质;科学发展观提出了“统筹兼顾”,充分发挥社会主义制度和市场经济两种优势的合力;科学发展观突出了邓小平“发展思想”,紧紧把握住经济规律和自然规律的内在统一,在人与物、经济与自然协调发展等三个方面进行了一些探讨。希望对认识这一当代中国马克思主义新理论有一定的帮助。     

气关笔力韵由墨彩--黄宾虹对"六法"之独见

谢赫提出"六法"以来,"六法"逐步发展为中国画的核心理论,尤其"气韵生动"更是被奉为圭臬,自宋郭若虚在<图画见闻志>的<论气韵非师>篇中强调了"气韵"是人的先天性气质,是不可学的以后,把谢赫具有内在联系的"六法"机械地割裂为两个部分,让后学迷茫,黄宾虹以其毕生的实践和卓越的见识,发展了董其昌通过后天性修养的方式,也即"读万卷书,行万里路"获得"气韵"的观点,指出了"笔力"的强弱是决定"气韵生动"的关键.     

Out of machine age?: complexity, sociotechnical systems and actor network theory

This paper compares sociotechnical systems (STS) theory and actor network theory (ANT) as developed by Latour, Callon and Law. We examine how STS and ANT can be viewed as responses to rationalist/functionalist research on large sociotechnical systems and as extensions and elaborations of pragmatist/culturalist frameworks developed in sociology and anthropology. We reexamine, from an actor network perspective, Trist and Bamforth’s seminal article in which the concept of a sociotechnical system was introduced. We also discuss how STS ideas on interactive planning can be combined with concepts from ANT to investigate interdependent processes of invention and innovation in large sociotechnical networks.