[p2p-research] Knotty problems

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Michelle,

I would be very happy to share an excerpt by Michael Thompson on the five
types he mentions in that book, and to consider this our book of the week on
the p2p foundation blog,

let me know if you're interested,

Michel Bauwens

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Michelle Smith <admin at triarchypress.com>wrote:

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> <http://www.triarchypress.com>
>    November 2010
> Dear Michel, <http://www.triarchypress.co.uk/pages/book17.htm>
>
> We are very attached to all the books we publish and would like share two
> of our favourites. Loosening the entanglement of knotty problems is the area
> in which these particular authors excel.
>
> Organising and Disorganising <http://triarchypress.com/pages/book16.htm>is a work of scholarship yet a light-hearted, accessible and illuminating
> view on a world paralysed by 'white noise' - where the voices of big
> government, market individualists, 'green' activists, etc., (believing they
> have the answer to seemingly intractable problems) jostle to be 'top dog'.
>
> Michael Thompson, an eminent and innovative theorist, explains the beliefs
> and ideals of the five fundamental voices - the hierarchist, the
> egalitarian, the individualist, the fatalist and the autonomous. With a
> range of examples and analogies, he explains the consequences of any
> single voice seeking to drown out the others and how best outcomes always
> depend upon *constructive* and argumentative engagement - that way each
> approach gets more of what it wants and less of what it doesn't want.
>
> Read more about his book and/or order a copy here.<http://triarchypress.com/pages/book16.htm>
>
> Triarchy Press was so named to reflect our first book by our founder Gerard
> Fairtlough.  The Three Ways of Getting Things Done: Hierarchy, Heterarchy
> and Responsible Autonomy <http://triarchypress.com/pages/book4.htm>is the
> bedrock from which all our later publications flow. In his youth he thought
> that hierarchy was a natural and necessary part of organisations, but later
> realised that if we are to become more effective, if organizations are to
> make real changes in the world and act in a truly responsible way, it was
> vital to question this.
>
> This international edition not only discusses and gives guidleines on how
> to bring heterarchy and responsible autonomy into organisations, but also
> draws on complexity theory, the work of Michael Thompson (above) and Roberto
> Unger’s work on plasticity.
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> Read more and/or order a copy here<http://triarchypress.com/pages/book4.htm>
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> And if you have yet to play the lovely game 'OnQ' - where multiple voices
> and perspectives can be explored, and discover how vital and uplifting it is
> to hear different points of view and experiences, you can order a copy
> here <http://triarchypress.com/pages/The_OnQ_Game.htm>
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>  *About Triarchy Press*
> *Triarchy Press* <http://www.triarchypress.com/> is an independent
> publisher of books and pamphlets focusing on organisations, how they work
> and the way we work in them.
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> *About Michael Thompson: *With his mis-spent youth continuing into (and
> way beyond) middle-age, Michael Thompson is still teasing out the various
> ideas of fairness that underpin the different rationalities, and that are so
> seldom given adequate recognition in global-level decision-making. He is
> currently devising ways of clumsifying and democratising international
> development aid, and enquiring into how urban infrastructures can be
> re-engineered so as to make cities into "forces for environmental good".
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