Whenever I encounter a systems problem dressed up as individual failing, I look for patterns in the collective situation.
To be satisfied with demonizing Trump risks aborting a critical opportunity for learning about the collective situation we face.
Is it possible that our belief in individual principled action is overmatched and overwhelmed by the collective situation?
A sobering analysis, but one we need to take seriously as it comes from distinguished scientists with a deep understanding of our collective situation.
What is calling for our attention is the need to speak directly to the power of our collective situation, including an economic system so singular in its pursuit of wealth that we become indifferent to both the soil and the soul of humanity.
Although he has repeatedly demonstrated, as he did at the G-20 meetings, that he is a calming presence with an acute grasp of the complexities of our collective situation, he has also consistently emphasized that the road to economic recovery will be a long, difficult, and painful one, requiring perseverance, hard work, sacrifice, patience, and self-discipline.
Second, facilitated reflection on network feedback refers to the theories and tools used to facilitate members of human services organisations to reflect on their own unique collective situation and experiences.
To do so, actors have to 'move' to a deeper analytical level, e.g. from the operational situation to the collective choice situation, where they can decide to adopt new operational rules that (re define their room to manoeuvre at the operational situation level.
Network structure can have an impact on the level of cooperation in collective action situations (Gould 1993).
In addition, we will try to detail some aspects of collective working situations, emphasizing the differences between various forms of control.
This article aims to describe the characteristics of collective working situations in complex systems – especially those in nuclear power plants – related to common forms of cooperation, in order to improve systems resilience.
