Acknowledging the unpredictability, nonlinearity, and circularity of cause-and-effect relationships within these systems is a notable departure from the simpler, linear models that underpin traditional mechanistic management thinking.
Some people use this expression: 'I'll see you next week, b'li neder' -- in English, 'but I'm not taking a vow on it".' There is a kind of modesty in such a statement, an acknowledging of the unpredictability of life and the human heart, particularly the young heart.
Ethnography acknowledges the ambiguity, unpredictability, and diverse perspectives that comprise implementation in practice settings.
Similarly, life's unpredictability is universally acknowledged, but people get anxious anyway.
In Syria, Kassig told me, he had recently encountered new levels of danger and unpredictability, and he acknowledged that the perils of travelling there were mounting.
Wilhelm's touchiness, his unpredictability, his need to be acknowledged: these things struck a chord with elements in Germany, which was in a kind of adolescent spasm quick to perceive slights, excited by the idea of flexing its muscles, filled with a sense of entitlement.
Mr. Yanukovich acknowledged that the desire for such a network was prompted "by the unpredictability of Ukraine's behavior in gas supply to Europe in 2006 and 2008".
He thinks that doctors find it quite emotionally difficult to acknowledge uncertainty – something that is not born from the doctor's incompetence but the unpredictability and uncertainty in medicine, particularly during the later stages of many diseases.
More specifically, the phronesis based approach precisely acknowledges the importance of addressing research as it is actually lived and, in doing so, it stresses its unpredictability and open-endedness, which is what characterizes virtually all approaches that take complexity seriously (Carr and Hartnett 1996; Coles 2006; Reed 1996).
Acknowledge, acknowledge!
The dynamism and unpredictability of the race might be assigned to some weakness in Mr. Romney's appeal, or the collective fickleness of the Republican electorate, but we also need to acknowledge that when it comes to this race, William Goldman's observation about Hollywood — "Nobody knows anything" — applies to the business of politics as well.
