038 - The Viable System Model

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

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What Was Your Impression of Brain of the Firm?

02:19 • 2min

3

Pickering - Is Stafford Beer a VSM?

04:23 • 2min

4

Is the VSM Applied to Co-Ops?

06:03 • 3min

5

The VSM Is Not the Waterfall Model of Work Progress

09:02 • 2min

6

The VSM Is Not Like the Inherently Colonialist Text

10:50 • 3min

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What's the Problem With Hierarchical Control?

13:26 • 2min

8

The Problem of Hierarchy

15:34 • 2min

9

The Body and Its Functions, Right?

17:32 • 4min

10

The Cybernetic Brain and Designing Freedom

21:08 • 2min

11

The Meta System Is What Forms the System in Question

22:38 • 2min

12

Should We Centralize or Decentralize?

24:50 • 2min

13

Is It System One or System Two?

27:07 • 2min

14

Is There a Spayo and Gill?

29:01 • 2min

15

Exactly. Is That a Problem in Political Economy?

31:00 • 5min

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The Meta System of Eyes, Right?

35:34 • 2min

17

How to Devolve Power and Decision Making as Low as Possible

37:07 • 3min

18

Is There a Vulnerable System Model?

39:51 • 3min

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The Model of the Environment, Right?

42:22 • 4min

20

Is the VSM Really a Push Notification?

46:33 • 5min

21

System Two

51:57 • 2min

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The Cooperative Ethos, Yeah, Yeah

53:30 • 2min

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How to Grow the Size of the Problem or Shrink the Solution, Right?

55:44 • 2min

24

Beer's Preliminary Diagnostic

57:50 • 4min

25

Is There a System in Your Organization?

01:01:26 • 2min

26

Is the Queue at Starbucks a Socialist Amblage?

01:03:19 • 1min

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What's the Purpose of the System?

01:04:48 • 2min

28

What Is the Purpose of the Organization?

01:07:02 • 2min

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Cybernetics and Psychiatry

01:08:46 • 2min

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Optimization of The, of the Whole Internal System

01:10:37 • 3min

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The Inner Eye of the BSM, Right?

01:13:24 • 2min

32

System Three Star

01:15:29 • 4min

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System Five Is a Decision Making Organ

01:19:49 • 2min

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The Autonomic Nervous System

01:22:17 • 4min

35

Um, Um, Is It a Dualist Point of View?

01:25:57 • 3min

36

Um, Um, Is This Really a Quote, Unquote, Menial Labor?

01:28:45 • 2min

37

Building a Workers Movement

01:30:56 • 2min

38

How Does the VSM Deploy a Leninist Party?

01:32:58 • 2min

39

Is There a Primary Purpose in Podcasting?

01:34:33 • 4min

40

Is Cybernetics a Part of a Better Future?

01:38:59 • 2min

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I Love the VSM Guide

01:40:37 • 4min