Key concept most English-speaking thinkers fail to grasp: the importance of scale. Solutions that work at one level fail at another. The trick is unifying Taylorist big-picture thought with Clausewitzian decentralization - each at its proper place in the scale.
Higher-level commanders generate intentions, which flow down because war is politics/policy. Line personnel generate facts, which flow up. Each serves its own function in the system, their independence and interdependence responsible for generating adaptability.
Nerve endings tells brain what hurts. Brain comes up with strategy for avoiding the suck. Nerve impulse sent back down creates a range of possibilities the local fibers actuate, for lack of a better word springing to mind right now.
Since you seem to be in deep philosophy reading mode. Been there, good times!
Totally agree about scale. Big things are not like small things. Spot on about unifying Taylor with more decentralized approaches. That is something I am working on right now.
Dunno if you've worked with any theory from the world of geography, but there is some rich literature in the field. Political ecology, especially the early stuff done by Blaikie. Here's a link to what's considered his classic.
That's what first put me on the trail of formal systems theory back when. Von Bertalanffy, Luhmann, and other German/Austrian scholars have some fantastic ideas about linking across scale. Frankly I consider Clausewitz to be one of the original minds in the systems tradition - seems to be a German-speaking world niche.
Key concept most English-speaking thinkers fail to grasp: the importance of scale. Solutions that work at one level fail at another. The trick is unifying Taylorist big-picture thought with Clausewitzian decentralization - each at its proper place in the scale.
Higher-level commanders generate intentions, which flow down because war is politics/policy. Line personnel generate facts, which flow up. Each serves its own function in the system, their independence and interdependence responsible for generating adaptability.
Nerve endings tells brain what hurts. Brain comes up with strategy for avoiding the suck. Nerve impulse sent back down creates a range of possibilities the local fibers actuate, for lack of a better word springing to mind right now.
Since you seem to be in deep philosophy reading mode. Been there, good times!
Totally agree about scale. Big things are not like small things. Spot on about unifying Taylor with more decentralized approaches. That is something I am working on right now.
Dunno if you've worked with any theory from the world of geography, but there is some rich literature in the field. Political ecology, especially the early stuff done by Blaikie. Here's a link to what's considered his classic.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Political-Economy-of-Soil-Erosion-in-Developing-Countries/Blaikie/p/book/9781138638853
That's what first put me on the trail of formal systems theory back when. Von Bertalanffy, Luhmann, and other German/Austrian scholars have some fantastic ideas about linking across scale. Frankly I consider Clausewitz to be one of the original minds in the systems tradition - seems to be a German-speaking world niche.
I’ll check it out! Thank you so much!