Structural Power and Federal Feudalism

While the U.S. government may be described as a massive wealth transferring scheme, looting the middle class for the elite, I’d suggest that ‘wealth’ and ‘elite’ are not precisely correct. The transformation in Western power structures over past three centuries is such that the ‘elite’ was formerly indistinguishable from the government, which is the hallmark …

Network Learning to Team/Autonomous Learning

Harold Jarche » Network Learning: Working Smarter At its core, network learning is a way to deal with an ever-increasing amount of digital information. It requires an open attitude toward learning and finding new things. Each worker needs to develop individualized processes of filing, classifying and annotating information for later retrieval. Source: www.jarche.com Network Learning: …

Review: Planning with Complexity – An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy

Judith Innes, David Booher Excellent but Not Perfect, June 25, 2011 The authors claim to be addressing a new theory of collaborative rationality. The Native Americans called this “seventh generation thinking.” It is neither new nor rational alone, but rather holistic. I bought and read this book along with Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity …