This video explains how causal feedback loops often comprise the underlying structure of complex systems. Feedbacks generate recurring patterns of system behaviour that often resist our best efforts to change them. By creating stock and flow diagrams and causal loop diagrams, we can identify positive (self-reinforcing) and negative (self-balancing) feedbacks.
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This video describes the behavioural properties of complex systems, including emergence, self-organization, non-linear behaviour, path dependence, and threshold transitions. These are essential features of contemporary global challenges that have crucial implications for effective leadership and management.
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This video explains the features that make systems complex and explores the behaviours typical of such systems. You will first learn to distinguish between systems that are merely complicated and those that are complex, complex adaptive, and reflexive complex adaptive.
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Globe and Mail article by Thomas Homer-Dixon and Robin Cox — We need to improve how we marshal, integrate, apply and communicate the best knowledge about B.C.’s emerging risks – those known and anticipated, as well as those unexpected and even currently unimaginable.
Globe and Mail article by Thomas Homer-Dixon, Ian Graham, and Ellen Quigley — A government-industry research and development partnership in ultradeep geothermal would be a “moonshot” project that Canadians could rally around.
A big bet on geothermal could help prevent a climate catastrophe Read More »
The second briefing of the Ukraine-Russia War Expert Panel — Whether Russia will use a tactical nuclear weapon depends on Putin’s psychology, his evolving
assessment of his own capabilities, and what he considers to be an acceptable outcome.
The global systemic consequences of the Ukraine-Russia War: Part II Read More »
The first briefing of the Ukraine-Russia War Expert Panel
The global systemic consequences of the Ukraine-Russia War: Part I Read More »
Globe and Mail article by Thomas Homer-Dixon — By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a right-wing dictatorship.
The American polity is cracked, and might collapse. Canada must prepare Read More »
