Being Better Better: Living with Systems Intelligence, by Raimo P Hämäläinen
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Being Better Better: Living with Systems Intelligence, by Raimo P Hämäläinen
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The book aims to help the reader to become more aware of our astonishing skills of Systems Intelligence. It focuses on everyday systems like families, workplaces and communities. These systems are created through our thoughts, actions and connections with others. They are systems that shape our lives, but also offer the possibility of us changing them from within. We are always part of systems. We can act intelligently from within those systems.
Systems Intelligence extends the concepts of Emotional and Social Intelligence. Systems Intelligence is the innate yet learnable capacity through which we engage with the diverse systems in our lives.
The book presents the Eight Dimensions of Systems Intelligence. It looks at how we can better see and understand systems through developing our systems perception. It pushes the reader to not just see systems around them, but to realize that we can often feel systems at work via attunement. It explores how reflection reveals how systems shape our thought processes and how we can develop the way we think. It reveals the systemic effects of positive engagement with others. It shows how an attitude of spirited discovery helps improve existing systems or create new ways of doing things. It stresses the skills and preparedness required for effective responsiveness within systems. It promotes wise action that allows us to work holistically with systems, to adopt a long-term perspective when needed, and to manage destructive emotions. It underscores the importance of a positive attitude to consistently act in systems intelligent ways.
The reader can evaluate her strengths in Systems Intelligence by taking the SI-test at: www.systemsintelligence.aalto.fi/test
The concept of Systems Intelligence was introduced in 2004 by Professors Raimo P. Hämäläinen and Esa Saarinen of Aalto University in Helsinki.
Additional material on the concept of Systems Intelligence can be found at: www.systemsintelligence.aalto.fi
Being Better Better: Living with Systems Intelligence, by Raimo P Hämäläinen- Amazon Sales Rank: #2277879 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.00" h x .56" w x 7.00" l, .96 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 246 pages
About the Author
Raimo P. Hämäläinen is professor and director of the Systems Analysis Laboratory and co-director of the Systems Intelligence Research Group at Aalto University Finland, He is an internationally acknowledged scholar in systems and decision making with over 200 scientific publications. He has helped to solve complex environmental policy problems with governmental agencies including the Parliament of Finland. He has been a visiting scholar at major international universities including MIT, UCLA, UC Berkley, National University of Singapore and University of Cape Town. He has a passion for outdoor life including fishing, sailing snowboarding and backcountry skiing.
Rachel Jones received her education in New Zealand. She holds two PhDs, the first in English literature and the second in Knowledge Management. She has gained multicultural experience while working as an English language teacher and a university lecturer in Australia, Japan and New Zealand. She also spent time working for Aalto University’s Systems Analysis Laboratory (Finland) as a research fellow. Currently, Rachel works freelance as a researcher and consultant. Her latest areas of interest are health and safety culture in organizations and exploring different models of retirement. She has several publications in academic journals, including in the field of Systems Intelligence. In her free time, she enjoys reading, camping and fishing.
Esa Saarinen is a Finnish philosopher, and life-philosophical lecturer, inspirational speaker, professor of applied philosophy at Aalto University and co-director of the Systems Intelligence Research Group. A national celebrity noted for his colorful media appearances and highly personal and non-academic lecturing style, Esa has helped to make philosophy a recognized part of Finnish public life. In addition to his interventions in media and in education, he has worked extensively as a coach for organizations and companies such as Nokia and Marimekko, promoting a doctrine of positive self-actualization. He is a prolific author of books who has written on a wide range of subjects including philosophical textbooks, history of western philosophy, scholarly research papers, and the volume Imagologies: Media Philosophy (1994), with Mark C. Taylor, an early discussion of the internet.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Influencing and influenced by By Michael It seems so obvious – a baby picks it up intuitively, untaught, at birth. That is where this book begins. Being better better means displaying systems intelligence, defined by Saarinen and Hämäläinen in their 2004 paper as “intelligent behaviour in the context of complex systems involving interaction and feedback”. I recognise that I am part of a whole that both influences me and is influenced by me. Even as a baby I subconsciously recognise this. What this book does is to make this ability “more visible” (p.22). It does this by describing eight interrelated dimensions which “provide a framework through which we can enrich our possibilities for action” (p.22) and which will allow us to be “better at being better” (p.22).I approached systems intelligence as a student of organisational change. I was comparing the model of management-led change detailed by Lewin (1947), Kotter (1996) and others with the notion of emergent change promoted by Streatfield (2001), Stacey (2011) and others. I affirmed Stacey’s critique of management-led change: the control it suggests is an illusion. Stacey then goes on to suggest that organisations are not systems because systems are external to the people who form them. This claim did not ring true to me – and that is when I came across systems intelligence which, like Stacey and his school of thought, rejects management-led change, but, unlike Stacey and his friends, affirms that organisations are systems, stating that “even if a system appears to have a life of its own, it actually responds to the actions of its members just as they adapt their behaviour to the system” (p.22). The answer is not to reject systems but to interact with them intelligently.Systems intelligence draws on systems thinking, which recognises that the whole is more than its parts. Peter Senge (1990) more than any other applies systems thinking to organisations, stating that it is the discipline that fuses other disciplines together “into a coherent body of theory and practice” (p.12). Systems intelligence takes this one step further. Esa Saarinen was once asked to summarise his life desire in one word. His answer: “Influence.” (Jones & Hämäläinen, 2013, p.1). The systems in which we live are always in a state of flux, influenced and influencing, and as I engage with my surroundings systems intelligently I will influence.The eight dimensions of systems intelligence, as described in this book, are: realise how everything is connected (systems perception); develop the intuitive ability to sense and connect with systems (attunement); live with your eyes open (reflection); enjoy positive relationships with others (positive engagement); take risks and step out of the box (spirited discovery); “live the questions” (Rilke, quoted in Ladkin, 2010, p.1) (effective responsiveness); use a bit of common sense (wise action); live hope and give hope (positive attitude). The first two of these eight points are closely related to systems intelligence but then the flavour of the book becomes more like a self-help manual. Put the principles into practice and your life will be enriched and you will live a better life. As such, the book feels broader than simply “Living with Systems Intelligence”.Being better better is full of anecdotes and stories, rooting the principles in reality and making it an enjoyable read. Annika Varjonen’s illustrations brighten up the page and illuminate the text.The book concludes with the challenge to act, to get out of our small-minded armchairs and engage with the systems of which we are part. Gil Bailie’s spiritual mentor once said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” (quoted in Eldredge, 2001, p.200) Following the principles elucidated in Being better better will help us come alive. Change starts with “the man in the mirror” (Jackson, 1988).ReferencesEldredge, J. (2001) Wild at Heart. Nashville: Thomas NelsonJackson, M. (1988) Man in the Mirror. Epic. Song written by S. Garrett & G. Ballard, produced by Q. Jones & M. 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