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I think you have to
back up to go forward, speed up to slow
down...look into the rear view mirror to
steer...
and if that is confusing, welcome to
emergenics...
one thing I did was "go back to what we
know"...
for instance,
e·mer·gence
əˈmərjəns/
noun
noun: emergence
1. the process of coming into view or becoming
exposed after being concealed.
"I misjudged the timing of my emergence"
synonyms: appearance, arrival, coming,
materialization; More
advent, inception, dawn, birth, origination,
start, development, rise
"the emergence of a new generation"
the escape of an insect or other invertebrate
from an egg, cocoon, pupal case, etc.
"the parasite's eggs hatch synchronously with
the emergence of the wasp larvae"
Botany
an outgrowth from a stem or leaf composed of
epidermal and subepidermal tissue, as the
prickles on a thistle plant.
2. the process of coming into being, or of
becoming important or prominent.
"the emergence of the environmental movement"
synonyms: appearance, arrival, coming,
materialization; More
advent, inception, dawn, birth, origination,
start, development, rise
"the emergence of a new generation"
You can see that the
conventional approach doesn't do much for us.
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For other uses, see Emergence
(disambiguation).
See also: Emergent (disambiguation),
Spontaneous order and Self-organization
Snowflakes forming complex symmetrical
and fractal patterns is an example of
emergence in a physical system.
A termite "cathedral" mound produced by a
termite colony is a classic example of
emergence in nature.
In philosophy, systems theory, science, and
art, emergence is conceived as a process
whereby larger entities, patterns, and
regularities arise through interactions among
smaller or simpler entities that themselves do
not exhibit such properties. In philosophy,
almost all accounts of emergence include a
form of irreducibility (either epistemic or
ontological) to the lower levels.[1] Also,
emergence is central in theories of
integrative levels and of complex systems. For
instance, the phenomenon life as studied in
biology is commonly perceived as an emergent
property of interacting molecules as studied
in chemistry, whose phenomena reflect
interactions among elementary particles,
modeled in particle physics, that at such
higher mass—via substantial
conglomeration—exhibit motion as modeled in
gravitational physics. Neurobiological
phenomena are often presumed to suffice as the
underlying basis of psychological phenomena,
whereby economic phenomena are in turn
presumed to principally emerge.
Now, we are getting somewhere, but remember my
initial notes:
"I think you have to back up to go forward,
speed up to slow down...look into the rear
view mirror to steer..."
Emergence is NOT a predictable conventional,
or even postconventional notion, it is most
likely a post-postconventional notion, which
some are referring, or as I would like to
think--> metaconventional.
This opens the door to trying to understand
what really emergence is...
I have often over the past 15 years at least
given Ken Wilber a hard time for his
incremental growth phenomena which indicates
that a atom goes to a molecule, to the
next...etc.
Ken Wilber comments that the test of holon
hierarchy (e.g. holarchy) is that if all
instances of a given type of holon were
removed from existence, then all those holons
of which they were a part must necessarily
cease to exist too. Thus an atom is of a lower
standing in the hierarchy than a molecule,
because if you removed all molecules, atoms
could still exist, whereas if you removed all
atoms, molecules, in a strict sense would
cease to exist. Wilber's concept is known as
the doctrine of the fundamental and the
significant. A hydrogen atom is more
fundamental than an ant, but an ant is more
significant.
Once you have a cake (perhaps a poor example
of emergence, but for me, most people get the
idea)...it no longer has the properties of the
eggs, flour, yeast, sugar, temp, container,
etc.
Therefore studying emergence in organizations
is often ONLY possible through deconstruction
and rear view methods...but what we are
looking for in orgs at least around innovation
and the central idea of emergenics is
"discontinuity" not continuity as Wilber
suggests...regardless of fundamental or
significance....
I will try to find my notes later on down the
road where I have discussed this at length
regarding the idea of continuous innovation or
discontinuous innovation.
Helpful Hint: Most strategy
will seek to use continuous innovation because
they do NOT go back to the beginning and look
at the properties of those elements of their
business, structure, talent, etc. and allow
discontinuity, or emergenics to play a role.
Action Step: The way in which
I use EMERGENICS is to take an inventory of
what it is that exists, rather that just what
it does, or manifests currently in the form of
results. American Airlines will go down in
history NOT FOR IT'S AIRPLANES but because it
developed the Sabre System around the time I
was born (old):
Sabre Holdings' history starts with SABRE
(Semi-automated Business Research
Environment), a computer reservation system
which was developed to automate the way
American Airlines booked reservations.
Sabre Global Distribution System (GDS), owned
by Sabre Holdings, is used by more than
350,000 travel agents around the world with
more than 400 airlines, 100,000 hotels, 25 car
rental brands, 50 rail providers and 14 cruise
lines. The Sabre GDS enables companies such as
American Airlines, American Express, BCD
Travel, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Hogg Robinson
Group (HRG), Expedia, Frontier, Holiday Autos,
Zuji, LastMinute, JetBlue, GetThere and
Travelocity to search, price, book, and ticket
travel services provided by airlines, hotels,
car rental companies, rail providers and tour
operators.
Sabre Holdings is a travel technology company
serving airlines, hotels, online and offline
travel agents and travel buyers. The company
is organized into four business units:
Travelocity: online travel agency
Sabre Travel Network: global distribution
system
Sabre Airline Solutions: airline technology
Sabre Hospitality Solutions: hotel technology
solutions
The company is headquartered in Southlake,
Texas, and has 10,000 employees in 60
locations around the world with datacenters in
global locations.
Few people realize today that Sabre came out
of American Airlines and a collaboration with
IBM from a flight where the then president of
American sat next to an IBMer.
Now, let me take it one step further:
Do you realize that they found out that
because American owned Sabre and it was used
by other booking agencies, that American
listed it's flights on the first line...and
that agents selected the American flights the
largest percentage of the time!
What emerged from a seeming advantage was in
fact a phenomena that no one
suspected--emergenics.
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