Transcript 5 - UCT GSB Blogs

Management in
complexity
The exploration of a new
paradigm
Complexity theory and the Quantum
Interpretation
Walter Baets, PhD, HDR
Associate Dean for Innovation and Social Responsibility
Professor Complexity , Knowledge and Innovation
Euromed Marseille – Ecole de Management
A quantum interpretation
Gödel’s theorem: 1931
No absolute axiomatic system is possible
Relativity theory (Einstein): first part of the 20st century
No absolute measurement is possible
Quantum mechanics: first part of the 20st century
Observation is interpretation
Complexity theory (Prigogine): second part of 20st century
Emergence, bifurcations, strange attractors
Once holism and complexity accepted
we cannot avoid a fundamental question
PAULI
complementary physics
Synchronicity
(=occurring–together-in-time)
From causal coherence
(from cause to effect)
together)
Coincidence
(occurring
A-causal links
hence….
A quantum interpretation
non-locality;
synchronicity;
entanglement
Mechanistic versus organic:
The evolution in business
Product oriented
Unique distribution channels
Control
Stability
Management by objective
Processes are the assets
Hierarchical organization
Machine thinking (symbolic)
Industrial era
The client co-creates
Multiple channels
Emergent processes
Change (learning) is the goal
Management in change and complexity
Learning is the asset
Human networks
Human thinking (fuzzy)
Knowledge era
Some quantum stories
Maxwell, Planck and Bohr: introduced criteria such as fertility,
beauty and coherence
Einstein, de Broglie and Schrödinger: shared a commitment to a
continuous wave as a basic physical entity subject to a
causal description
Heisenberg, Pauli, Jordan and Dirac: we no longer have
event-by-event causality and particles do not follow
well-defined trajectories in a space-time background
In 1935, Schrödinger formulated his famous ‘cat paradox’
Pauli: Background physics has an archetypal origin and that leads
to a natural science which will work just as well with
matter
as with consciousness
Pauli accepted that physical values, as much as
archetypes, change in the eyes of the
observer. Observation is the result
of human consciousness
Some quantum stories (2)
Polkinghorne: The implication of these observations is that the
phenomenon of “entanglement” (non-locality) includes a real
remote activity, not simply epistemological, but in fact
ontological in nature
Polkinghorne (1990): The greater the experience of
satisfaction, the more the consciousness of each cell in the
body will resonate with the holographic information engraved in
the "quantum zero point" (the lowest possible state of energy,
in an almost resting, but not quite, situation) of the energy field
So, on the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics,
physical processes are, at the most fundamental level, both
inherently indeterministic and non-local. The ontology of
classical physics is dead. The heart of the problem is the
entanglement (or non-separability) of quantum states that
gives rise to the measurement problem. This entanglement
makes it impossible to assign independent properties to an
arbitrary isolated physical system once it has interacted
with another system in the past – even though these two
systems are no longer interacting. The non-separability
characteristic of quantum systems can be seen as an
indication of the ‘holistic’ character of such systems.
A quantum interpretation
In
In
In
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In
the arts: Cara et Murphy
linguistics: Dalla Chiarra et Giuntini
the physical sciences: Pauli
biology: Sheldrake (morphogenetic fields and resonance)
medicine: Chopra, the Ayurveda, but also increasingly in
regular medicine
The Bogdanov Singularity
The «Wall of Planck» (physical limit) = 10-43
3 ‘space’ and 1 ‘time’ dimension
Are space and time so neatly divided ?
(Prigogine; the DVD)
Synchronicity in quantumphysics
Bogdanov’s (physics and mathematics):
“Avant le big bang”
The Bogdanov Singularity (2)
Beyond the « Wall of Planck » ?
Before “the big bang” ?
There is a fifth dimension, being
a fourth of space expressed in
imaginary time
Time-space really becomes a continuum
That singularity has no classical
movement anymore
(“what is”)
Entrainment
(Institute of Heart Math; www.heartmath.org)
Physiology of emotions
How emotions influence cognition,
behavior and health
The heart is a highly complex system:
a sensory organ, a heart brain
(nervous center)
That “heart brain” allows us to learn and
takes decisions independent
from the brain’s cerebral
cortex
Entrainment (2)
There is a strong interaction through the
body via an electromagnetic field
Rythms should naturally synchronize on
that heart rhythm
The same happens between people
(pendulum clocks: Huygens)
Socio-emotional interaction between
mother and child
Heart coherence
Research agenda
In search of « synchronicity »
Expected contributions
• Can we visualize synchronicity in management
• What are the organizing principles and what is precisely
emergence
• Emergent concepts in management
• « Complex Adaptive Systems » as research tools
Agents, Neural Networks, Learning systems
• The contribution of this paradigm for knowledge, learning and
innovation in companies
• Another understanding of innovation
The areas of attention in business
in a quantum world
• Market behavior (the outside world)
• Human interaction (the inside world)
• Management learning (innovation, knowledge)
In a knowledge society,
and that is the big shift that has taken place
A holistic management concept
Individual
•Personal development
•Emotional development
•Leadership
•Making a difference
•Self motivation
•Joy
•Involvement
•Responsibility
•Respect
Personal
Development
(Learner centered)
Mechanistic
management
approach
Exterior
Interior
•Historic legitimacy
•Diversity
•Sociology
•Humanism
•Relativism
•Complexity
•Social responsibility
•Long term perspective
•Sustainable development
•Quantitative approaches
•Control/performance
•Management by
objectives
•Models
•Financial orientation
•Short term efficiency
•Production management
Beliefs, values
& culture
(identity)
Systemic
management
approach
Collective/
Networked
•Dynamic system behavior
•Management in complexity
•Management in diversity
•Knowledge management
•Community of practices
•Ecological management
•Ethics in management
•Social corporate responsibility
•Sustainable development
•The networked economy
•Emergence, innovation…
Cassandra©: a holistic diagnostic for sustainable
performance
• Corporate version
• Personal version
Values
Axis 1: Diversity
Axis 2: Complexity
Personal development
Axis 3: Personal well being
Axis 4: Leadership and teamwork
Mechanistic performance
Axis 5: Financial performance
Axis 6: Innovative potential
Holistic performance
Axis 7: Sustainable development and
social responsibility
Axis 8: Knowledge and learning
Floors of the « house » of knowing
Classical science
Noetic science
Nature and potential of consciousness
Ayurveda
Indian « science
of life »
1. Mathematics
1. Fractal algebra
1. Matter form
2. Physics
body
2. Energy physics
2. Ether and astral
(quantum mechanics)
3. Chemistry
3. Vibrational chemistry
(quantum mechanics, quarks)
3. Energy level
4. Biology
4. Noetic biology
4. Desire
(cells as integrated communities
control by the organisms perception)
5. Psychology
5. Energy psychology
(perceptions – energy fields)
5. Capacity to think
(conceptualization)
6. Intuition,
intelligence
7. Consciousness