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HARMONIOUS CO-EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZATIONS AND SYSTEMS

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Kostas A. Levetas,

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HARMONIOUS CO-EVOLUTION
ORGANIZATIONS AND SYSTEMS

The concepts and themes, which are analyzed in this book, move in the special and very broad area of ​​consulting organizations and systems and are directly and deeply related to the very structure of reality in which all human activities are born, unfold and interact. The first goal is to present and analyze a collection of specialized consulting tools that penetrate the reality of modern systems and organizations and help the experienced consultant understand the complexity and how they interact with everything around them. The next goal, based on these tools, is the presentation of two main models: 'Total Management' under the name 'Orian', which is briefly presented since it was the subject of the author's previous book, and 'Total Consulting' with the name 'Mentor', which is composed step by step and thoroughly presented in the form of an algorithm, which is applied to any consulting process of analysis and improvement of complex systems and organizations. The advisory model 'Mentor' aims to analyze, evaluate and improve the harmonious co-evolution of a 'chao-class' system with its environment. Appropriate action arises effortlessly and naturally from the very possibility of synergy that emerges and the transformation sought is dynamic, harmonious and universal.

Author Biography

Kostas A. Levetas began his studies at the School of Electrical Engineering at NTUA. After graduation, he pursued graduate studies in New York in various fields and universities, such as Business and Industrial Organization and Management at Long Island University (M.Sc.), Business Research at Columbia University (M.Sc. & Pr.D .) and Philosophy at the New School University (MA). After his return to Greece and the fulfillment of his military obligations, he prepared a doctoral thesis (Ph.D.) as well as post-doctoral research (Post-Doc) at Panteion University and NTUA in the field of administration of complex social structures and systems and decision-making. Since 2000, he has been working at the American College of Greece, in the School of Economics and Business Studies as a professor of Business Administration and Organization. His research interests are in the management and consulting of chaotic systems, as well as in the analysis and management of complex problems. His research led, initially, to the creation of a model of Total Management of Organizations and Systems, called "Orian", which was presented in his book of the same name in 2016, and then to the creation of a model of Total Consulting of Organizations and Systems, with the name "Mentor", which is presented in this book.

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Contents
  • Personal Note to the Reader
  • Introduction
  • Tools for Analyzing and Understanding Entities 
  • Macroscopic Analysis: Dialectical Hierarchy of an 'X' Reference System
  • Each reference system occupies a specific intermediate position in a dialectical succession of nested systems, which defines its role and significance and indicates the best way to understand, manage and improve it. The study of this overall dialectical sequence, within which the reference system is born and functions, is extremely important and constitutes its 'Macroscopic' view.
  • Microscopic Analysis: Number Systems – Systematic
  • The complexity and ambiguity of wholes can be analyzed and understood through the application of systems which consist of progressively increasing terms and which are based on the qualitative meaning of numbers. This approach was first formulated by JG Bennett and was called Systematics. Her study recommends the 'Microscopic' view of the reference system.
  • One Term System: Unit [Content]
  • System of Two Terms: Dyadic [Polarity]
  • System of Three Terms: Trinity [Relationship]
  • Four Term System: Tetrad [Activity]
  • Five Terms System: Five [Value]
  • System of Six Terms: Hexadecimal [Realization]
  • System of Seven Terms: Heptad [Transformation]
  • System of Eight Terms: Octet [Action]
  • System of Nine Terms: Ennead [Cycle of Life]
  • Ten Term System: Ten [Collaboration]
  • Eleven Terms System: Eleven [Synergy]
  • System of twelve terms: Twelve [Universality]
  • Management & Consulting of Organizations and Systems
  • Organizational Systems and Enterprises
  • The new data in the theory of 'chaotic systems' impose the need to create consulting business models, which will focus on co-evolution with the environment and the release of the creative potential of organizations.
  • Systemic Problems and Situations, Synergy, Co-Evolution
  • Complex systemic problems are also dynamic multifaceted entities that constantly co-evolve with their environment. Their management by the system in which they emerge comes from the direction of creating conditions of self-organization within it.
  • Consulting Organizations and Systems: Analysis, Diagnosis, Management
  • The goal of Consulting Organizations and Systems of all kinds is to create and cultivate conditions under which the system's inherent ability to self-organize and co-evolve with its environment emerges.
  • A Different Approach to Counselling
  • Full Management & Full Consulting
  • Total Consulting and Management must, continuously and in a natural way, activate the totality of the learning and creative potential of each organizational system, constantly turning it in the direction of harmonizing its quantitative and qualitative dimension, as these arise from its dynamic correlation with the environment.
  • General Advisory Standard for Organizations and Systems
  • General Standard of Macroscopic Analysis
  • The macroscopic analysis of a reference system, as formulated in chapter 1.1 hereof, informs the consultant-analyst about the relative position of the system within the dialectical hierarchy of related super-systems and sub-systems and determines its capabilities and limitations.
  • Macroscopic Analysis of an Organizational System
  • Macroscopic Analysis of Business Activity
  • General Standard of Microscopic Analysis
  • The microscopic analysis of a reference system, as formulated in chapter 1.2 hereof, allows the consultant-analyst to gradually penetrate deeper into the examined structure, its operation and its meaning, through successive application of systems of progressively increasing terms, which function as magnifying glasses continuously increasing focus lenses. 
  • Unit System: Common Central Structural Characteristic
  • Binary System: Field of Possibilities.
  • Archetypal Business System Dyads
  • Trinity System: Creative Relationship – 'Is'
  • Tetra System: Intentional Activity
  • Five System: Value – Internal & External Significance
  • System of Six: Present Moment
  • Seven System: Transformation - 'Becoming'
  • Octet System: Arena of Harmonic Action
  • Ennead System: Life Cycle - 'Being' & 'Becoming'
  • Ten System: Cooperation of Structures
  • Eleven System: Synergy of Structures
  • System of Twelve: Harmonious Co-Evolution
  • The Enneagram of the Nine First Systems
  • Idea Management
  • Triple Professional Focus
  • The modern professional is active and develops at the same time in three, related to his work, levels by which he is influenced: the individual level, the collective or collegiate level and, finally, the professional or wider scientific field or level. His relationship with them must be harmonious and balanced.
  • Professional Completion: Overlapping Aspects of Professional Employment and Responsibility
  • The modern professional must at the same time maintain an active and receptive attitude in relation to professional stimuli that originate either from his external environment or from the inside, i.e. himself. It must also maintain a catalytic attitude in relation to stimuli originating from its scientific field.
  • Additional Aspects of Management
  • The modern manager is constantly active within a superimposed network of interacting and concentric global aspects, which begin with him as their central core and expand successively, enclosing each other, towards the wider environment. From this overlapping network emerges his obligations and rights, as well as the issue of his overall individual responsibility.
  • The Relative Position of every Modern Professional
  • Each professional occupies his place within the dialectical sequence of different levels of knowledge and human activities. The totality and importance of the work he performs are understood, when his relative position from which they originate is perceived.
  • The Relative Position of a Project Production Team
  • Each production group of a specific project (project group) exists and operates embedded in a framework of relationships and dynamics, which originates from a sequence of nested super-systems and sub-systems that in turn determine the possibilities but also the limitations under which the specific project is produced.
  • The Relative Position of a Business
  • Every business exists and operates embedded in a framework of relationships and dynamics which stems from a sequence of nested super-systems and sub-systems which determine both its capabilities and limitations and determine its value.
  • Basic Advisory Triads
  • The evolutionary path of the Consultant and Client relationship depends on the nature and intensity of the dynamic dipoles that govern it as well as the possibility of the emergence of an appropriate third conciliatory force, which can harmonize the oppositions and channel their hidden potential into creative synergy.
  • Holistic Approach of Systems and Organizations
  • Management & Consulting of 'Chaotaxic' Systems
  • "Chaotic" systems, and thus modern organizations and businesses, include the possibilities of self-evaluation, self-improvement and co-evolution with their environment, because they are governed by very special laws that cannot be ignored, if we want to learn to manage them correctly and effectively.
  • Total Systems & Organizations Management – ​​'HOURS' Standard
  • The term "total administration" (AD) refers to that way of practicing the administrative function, which is on the one hand simultaneously and equally sensitive to all possible forms of decision-making and communication, on the other hand able to detect and promote the mechanisms of these forms , so that it becomes possible to activate the entire potential of the administrative act and not just some aspects of it.
  • Total Systems & Organizations Consulting – 'MENTOR' Model
  • The term "holistic consultation" (OS) refers to that way of practicing the counseling function which, through its various tools, creates in the reference system suitable conditions, so that it can release all its creative potential through the possibilities of self-evaluation, self-improvement and co-evolution with its environment.
  • Applications of the 'MENTOR' Standard
  • The application of the 'Mentor' model can be done either as a whole, according to its corresponding flowchart for the analysis of a reference system, or selectively by applying only part of its tools for the analysis and management of complex situations and problems.
  • Applications in Systems and Organizations
  • Applications in the Analysis of Situations and Problems
  • Crisis Management Strategy
  • Production of Prescribed Product
  • 'Life Cycle' of Project Production Process
  • Epilogue
  • The Holistic Consulting of a 'chaotic' system is a self-referential action since it is based on and co-requires parallel penetration of the Consultant-Researcher into a dynamic and 'chaotic' system of corresponding complexity and intelligence which is none other than himself.
  • Appendix 
  • The Concept of Relativity according to G. Gurdjieff and its Importance for Understanding any Reference System
  • JG Bennett's 'Systematics'
  • Systematics in the Management and Consulting of Organizations and Systems (JG Bennett & S. Kuchinsky)
  • The use of the Ninegram in the Management and Consulting of Organizations and Businesses.
  • The use of networks in Business Consulting
  • Bibliography - Articles
  • Index of Special Terms
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Weight0.5 kg
Writer

Kostas A. Levetas

Pages

370

Writer

Size

16x23 cm

Publisher

iWrite Publications

ISBNs

978-960-627-138-0

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