Identifying meta-challenges: checklists and documents
Embodiment of Change: Comprehension, Traction and Impact? (Part #3)
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Any effort to elaborate such "meta-challenges" -- as below -- is of course subject to many of these constraints. The items are listed primarily to indicate the nature of the issues, merely by scanning the document titles -- irrespective of whether any particular issues are considered to merit further exploration.
Checklists variously framed: These highlight the nature of questions which are typically avoided in considering future possibilities:
- Cooperation and its Failures (From the 1960s through the 1980s): 12 Metaphors towards understanding the dilemma for the 1990s (1988)
- Collective Learning from Calls for Global Action (1981)
- Limits to Human Potential (1976)
- An Inconvenient Truth -- about any inconvenient truth (2008)
- Why We Do Not Thrive: challenges to universal thrival (1999)
- Checklist of Nasty Questions: regarding development analyses and initiatives (1981)
- Future World Council Creation: reflections of an ancient futurist (2004), clustering 45 questions as follows:
Denial and question avoidance: These offer various approaches to the nature of denial:
- Question Avoidance, Evasion, Aversion and Phobia: why we are unable to escape from traps (2006)
- Lipoproblems: Developing a Strategy Omitting a Key Problem -- the systemic challenge of climate change and resource issues (2009)
- In Quest of Optimism Beyond the Edge: through avoidance of the answering process (2008)
- Global Strategic Implications of the "Unsaid": from myth-making towards a wisdom society (2003)
- Overpopulation Debate as a Psychosocial Hazard: development of safety guidelines from handling other hazardous materials (2009)
- Strategically Relevant Evocative Questions? (1993)
Misplaced optimism regarding governance and systemic negligence: These explore assumptions regarding misplaced confidence in existing methods:
- Abuse of Faith in Governance: Mystery of the Unasked Question (2009)
- Emergence of a Global Misleadership Council misleading as vital to governance of the future? (2007)
- Disastrous Floods as Indicators of Systemic Risk Neglect: implications for authoritative response to future surprises (2011)
- Credibility Crunch engendered by Hope-mongering (2008)
- Recognizing the Psychosocial Boundaries of Remedial Action: constraints on ensuring a safe operating space for humanity (2009)
Neglected issues in dialogue, facilitation and game-playing: These highlight assumptions regarding expectations from dialogue as currently framed
- Evaluating Synthesis Initiatives and their Sustaining Dialogues Possible questions as a guide to criteria of evaluation of any synthesis initiative (2000)
- Epistemological Challenge of Cognitive Body Odour: exploring the underside of dialogue (2006)
- Women and the Underside of Meetings: symptoms of denial in considering strategic options (2009)
- In Quest of Facilitation -- Beyond the Facile (2010)
- Systems of Categories Distinguishing Cultural Biases (1993)
- Wrecking an International Project: Notes from a saboteur's vade mecum (1972)
- An Inconvenient Truth -- about any inconvenient truth (2008)
- Confusion in the Moment of Dialogue (2004)
- The "Dark Riders" of Social Change: a challenge for any Fellowship of the Ring (2002)
- Emptying Meetings and Fulfilling Participants: ensuring that encounters are fruitful (1998)
- Reframing Personal Relationships between Innovators or Leaders: the unmentionable challenge to sustainable paradigm shifting and social transformation (1998)
Possibilities of anticipating and reframing disagreement: Differences of opinion typically emerge and tend to undermine the coherence of global initiatives.
- All Blacks of Davos vs All Greens of Porto Alegre: reframing global strategic discord through polyphony? (2007)
- Discovering Richer Patterns of Comprehension to Reframe Polarization (1998)
- Using Disagreements for Superordinate Frame Configuration (1993)
- Configuring Strategic Dilemmas in Intersectoral Dialogue: summary of analysis on the occasion of Earth Summit (1992)
- Inter-sectoral Strategic Dilemmas of Sustainable Development (1992)
- Sustainable Dialogue as a Necessary Template for Sustainable Global Community (1995)
- Beyond Method: engaging opposition in psycho-social organization (1981)
Neglected conventional cognitive traps: These highlight inadequately explored cognitive issues undermining framing of strategies
- Framing the Global Future by Ignoring Alternatives: unfreezing categories as a vital necessity (2009)
- Interacting Fruitfully with Un-Civil Society: the dilemma for non-civil society organizations (1996)
- Missiles, Missives, Missions and Memetic Warfare: navigation of strategic interfaces in multidimensional knowledge space (2001)
- Tank-thoughts from Think-tanks: constraining metaphors on developing global governance (2003)
- Category Manipulation in Global Dialogue (2000)
- Unknown Undoing: challenge of incomprehensibility of systemic neglect (2009)
- Distorted Understandings of Synthesis: reconfiguring the challenge of wholeness (1997)
- Future of United Nations - Civil Society Relations: 257 questions in assessing the Report of the Panel of Eminent Persons in relation to the challenges of the 21st Century (2004)
Unexamined implications of the requisite complexity of "new thinking" in response to strategic obsolescence:
- Governing Civilization through Civilizing Governance: global challenge for a turbulent future (2008)
- Distinguishing Levels and Patterns of Strategic Obsolescence (2006)
- Consciously Self-reflexive Global Initiatives: Renaissance zones, complex adaptive systems, and third order organizations (2007)
- Imagining the Real Challenge and Realizing the Imaginal Pathway of Sustainable Transformation (2007)
- Sustainability through the Dynamics of Strategic Dilemmas (2005)
- Engaging with the Inexplicable, the Incomprehensible and the Unexpected (2010)
- Polyhedral Empowerment of Networks through Symmetry: psycho-social implications for organization and global governance (2008)
- Dynamics of Symmetry Group Theorizing: comprehension of psycho-social implication (2008)
- Towards Polyhedral Global Governance: complexifying oversimplistic strategic metaphors (2008)
- Polyhedral Pattern Language: software facilitation of emergence, representation and transformation of psycho-social organization (2008)
Unquestioned assumptions regarding forms of presentation of conclusions: These highlight issues relating to the uptake of proposals or indifference to them
- An Inconvenient Truth -- about any inconvenient truth (2008)
- In Quest of Mnemonic Catalysts -- for comprehension of complex psychosocial dynamics (2007)
- Governance through Patterning Language: creative cognitive engagement contrasted with abdication of responsibility (2006)
- Dynamically Gated Conceptual Communities: emergent patterns of isolation within knowledge society (2004)
- In Quest of Uncommon Ground: beyond impoverished metaphor and the impotence of words of power (1997)
- Richer Metaphors for Our Future Survival (1996)
- Forms of Presentation and the Future of Comprehension (1984)
Humouristic and poetic summaries: These endeavour to highlight the current tragedy by unconventional means
- Global Strategic Alternatives for the 21st Century? Contrasting visual caricatures (2009)
- Gaia: La Belle Dame sans Merci (2009)
- Sets and their Settings: from development to climate change... and beyond (2009)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade: revised in celebration of current global strategic management initiatives (2008)
- Responsibility for Global Governance: Who? Where? When? How? Why? Which? What? (2008)
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