This is Peter Belohlavek’s input to reflection on approaching reality with value adding or zero sum strategies organized by the Unicist Goodwill Network. It will give you a new vision on the nature of human adaptive behavior.

This is part of the cycle “Opening the Pandora Box of Social Evils”. Social chronic problems need to be cured and not only palliated. Paradoxically, opening the “box” of these problems allows curing them while closing it only palliates them and increases their destructive power.

Diana Belohlavek
VP Global Markets
& Market Labs

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute was the pioneer in complexity science research and became the major research organization in the world in the field of human adaptive systems. More than 4,200 unicist ontological researches were developed since 1976 until December 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They included the development of the unicist ontogenetic maps (DNA) of institutions.

On August 30 at 4:00 pm New York time there will be a Unicist Tweetinar on Unicist Business Talent Development led by Peter Belohlavek.

Register at: www.twitter.com/tweetinar_en

Everybody has a talent. For some people it is easier to get aware of them than for others. Talents are as diverse as the action fields of human beings.

Only when goals are achieved talents can be recognized as such. These achievements are not necessarily contemporaneous with the action. Nobody doubts that Van Gogh and Nikola Tesla were talented. But when the talent largely exceeds the existing paradigms, individuals are marginalized by the environment.

Talents are discovered when people act in their environment. Talents are perceived through the difference compared to others. When an individual is using his talent he is perceived as:

1)      Focused: Talent implies the “alignment or neural circuits” to achieve a goal.
2)      Natural: When a talent has been trained, it flows naturally in its field of action.
3)      Credible: People who use their talents are consistent and therefore credible.
4)      Convinced: When adults use their talents they are sure about what they are doing.
5)      Self-criticism: The most notorious characteristic of talent is the implicit capacity for self-criticism. Self-criticism is what fosters personal improvement and implicitly develops one’s talents.

Following questions will be answered during the Tweetinar:

1.  What is ethical intelligence for?
2. What is the use of strategic intelligence?
3. What are the types of thought based on?
4. When should people be taught and when should learning be fostered?
5. What types of talents are necessary in organizations?
6. What talents are needed to develop maximal strategies and which one are necessary for minimum strategies?
7. What talents are needed to deal with business architecture?

We recommend watching the video on this subject in order to find your responses to these questions:

We invite you to be our guest at the Unicist Library to access the book : “The Nature of Unicist Object Driven Talent Development”:  http://www.unicist.com

N. I. Brown
Academic Department

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is a pioneer in complexity science research. More than 4,000 ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution, including the development of ontology based and business object driven solutions for businesses.

Businesses are, by definition, conscious activities to satisfy needs. Businessmen/women can approach these needs based on the answers they have or based on the questions they pose.

Selling only “black cars” is an answer driven approach; researching which color of cars are desired is a question driven approach.

People who do what they believe are answer driven. People who do what is needed are question driven.

Question driven businesses are, by nature, “liberal” because the input comes from the needs of the market. Answer driven businesses are “conservative” because the needs are defined by the businessmen/women.

Minimum strategies of businesses, which are those that are under the control of a company, can be managed with answers. Methods, rules and guidelines are defined ways to develop an activity and are homologous to what we call answers.

Maximal strategies of companies, which expand the boundaries of businesses, need to be managed based on the questions. The problem is to understand what the market is saying. The answers are, by definition, ambiguous and require understanding the unified field of the business in order to be interpreted.

Maximal strategies require “liberals” and minimum strategies require “conservatives” to manage businesses.

Managing questions makes the introjection of the needs of the market possible; managing answers implies projecting one’s decisions. Business modeling requires both approaches to be successful.

We invite you to be our guest at the Unicist Library:  http://www.unicist.com

Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is a pioneer in complexity science research. More than 4,000 ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution, including the development of ontology based and business object driven solutions for businesses.

Etymologically, diagnosis means discerning, distinguishing. The everyday use of the word also implies seeking for the causes of a problem.

From a conceptual point of view, diagnoses are made to forecast and to exert influence on a reality. The level of the groundings upon which diagnoses are based defines its level of accuracy.

Diagnoses necessarily include intuitive aspects when approaching new situations. The difference between diagnoses does not lie in the intuitive approach, but in the processing of the information that intuition offers.

We have identified five levels of diagnoses:

1)      Intuitive-analogical
2)      Descriptive
3)      Static
4)      Causal
5)      Functional

Intuitive-analogical diagnosis

The intuitive diagnosis approaches reality from the subjective perceptions of an individual. It does not use groundings to validate intuition, just intuitive analogies.

Descriptive diagnosis

The outcome of this diagnosis is a description of the visible physical aspects of a reality. This diagnosis can help to solve simple problems.

The static diagnosis

This diagnosis is based on the analysis of a reality. It is called static because in order to analyze something, we need to consider it as a fixed situation in time and circumstances. This diagnosis helps solving simple problems in areas which involve formal or rational components.

The causal diagnosis

The causal diagnosis is a systemic approach to reality. It is a systemic diagnosis that analyzes the functional

ity of a given reality. It sustains the solution of complex problems with low ambiguity levels.

The functional diagnosis

This diagnosis is based on the understanding of the functional concepts that underlay a given reality. The functional diagnosis is necessary for the solution of highly complex problems with ambiguous components.

The secure diagnosis

A diagnosis is “secure” when it includes all levels of analysis. Secure knowledge has been achieved when this condition has been fulfilled. Secure knowledge requires a high investment of energy. Therefore people often prefer to use reliable but not secure diagnoses, and control the evolution of a given reality in order to validate the accuracy of such diagnoses.

The questions that will be answered during the Unicist Tweetinar are:

1. What are business diagnoses for?
2. What are intuitive diagnoses for?
3. What are functional diagnostics based on?
4. What is mathematical validation of diagnoses for?
5. What are conceptual validation model for?
6. What is the 5 why methodology for?
7. Which are the 5 why that need to be answered?

Access or request a Unicist Tweetinar on this subject at:
http://www.academic.unicist.org/unicist_tweetinars.shtml

We invite you to be our guest at the Unicist Library to learn about “Hyperrealism in Business”: http://www.unicist.com

Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is a pioneer in complexity science research. More than 4,000 ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution, including the development of ontology based and business object driven solutions for businesses.

The human approach to strategy is defined as the conscious planning of human beings to influence the environment when such environment is uncertain, risky, complex or conflictive.

Influencing implies that the actions of a developed strategy will occur in the future.

The unicist strategic approach implies the building of a natural complementation with the “client” and a competitive strategy with “competitors”.

Strategy building implies a conscious behavior; therefore it implies intuitive but also emotional and rational conducts. Respecting taxonomies diminishes the risk of fallacies and paradoxical results. Pilot testing is necessary to secure the validity of a strategy.

The questions that will be answered during the Unicist Tweetinar are:

1. What is the Unicist Strategy for?
2. Why is it called Unicist Object driven Strategy?
3. Why is it said that “Battles are won or lost before they are fought?
4. Is the Unicist Strategic approach an action driver or an energy conservation function?
5. What do you define as a maximal strategy, and what are they for?
6. How do you define a minimum strategy and what is necessary to develop them?
7. What is the catalyst of the minimum strategy and how does it work?

Access or request a Unicist Tweetinar on this subject at:
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Learn more about the trend of ontology based solutions for businesses:
http://www.unicist.net/obs.shtml

Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is the major research organization in the world in its specialty based on more than 3,500 researches in complexity science, developed since 1976 until September 2010,  applied to individual, institutional and social evolution. The applicative researches are based on the discovery of the Ontogenetic Intelligence of Nature and the consequent Unicist Ontology of Evolution.

“The cost of a glass is in its solid;
its value is in its hollow.
Its cost has no value.
Its value has no cost.
But both of them are within the glass.”

“The cost of education is given by teaching;
its value is given by learning.
Teaching has no value.
Learning has no cost.
But both of them are within education.”

“The one who ignores is blind.
The one who ignores, but thinks he doesn’t,
is not only blind but deaf.
God and fools know everything,
But fools need to be right.”

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Learn more about the trend of ontology based solutions for businesses:
http://www.unicist.net/obs.shtml

Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is the major research organization in the world in its specialty based on more than 3,500 researches in complexity science, developed since 1976 until September 2010,  applied to individual, institutional and social evolution. The applicative researches are based on the discovery of the Ontogenetic Intelligence of Nature and the consequent Unicist Ontology of Evolution.

Adaptive systems are in permanent motion. Therefore the knowledge of their nature is necessary in order to establish fixed points to influence them.

To apprehend an adaptive system it is necessary to have the questions to grasp what is behind the apparent actions. This is what makes evolution possible.

“Action-reflection-action” is the process that needs to be followed to influence an adaptive system’s environment.

The basic questions that need to be posed at the different levels of logical thinking and reflection are:

Why? – Conceptual thinking and reflection
What for? – Scientific / systemic thinking
What? – Analytic thinking
How? – Operational thinking

When reality is approached based on responses instead of question it is degraded to the pre-concepts that individuals have in their minds. This drives necessarily to parallel realities and involution.

The acceptance of this fact fosters a change of the educational systems. In the real world, students are basically evaluated based on the responses they are able to provide.

Approaching reality based on questions has become a “Martian” behavior. But the integration of both questions and answers is needed to generate evolution.

Conservatism rules, because it needs to foster predefined responses. The future generations will have to pay the prices the present generation doesn’t want to pay.

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Learn more about the trend of ontology based solutions for businesses:
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Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is the major research organization in the world in its specialty based on more than 3,500 researches in complexity science, developed since 1976 until September 2010,  applied to individual, institutional and social evolution. The applicative researches are based on the discovery of the Ontogenetic Intelligence of Nature and the consequent Unicist Ontology of Evolution.

Micro-segmentation is the pathway to exert influence on real clients. It is based on the discovery of the unicist ontological market segmentation.

It allows managing and influencing buying actions and defining the limits of commercial possibilities.

Concepts and Fundamentals sustain human attitude and support this segmentation model. Anthropological life-styles allow defining the context of the commercial activities.

The questions that will be answered during the Unicist Tweetinar are:

1) What triggered the development of the ontological market segmentation model?
2) What is the unicist ontological segmentation model?
3) Fundamentals structure the ontology of human behavior. What are they for?
4) Which are the elements that integrate the unicist ontological market segmentation?
5) What is the universal unicist ontological market segmentation for?
6) What is the ontological micro-segmentation of markets?
7) How is the micro-segmentation used in marketing?

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Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is the major research organization in the world in its specialty based on more than 3,500 researches in complexity science, developed since 1976 until September 2010,  applied to individual, institutional and social evolution. The applicative researches are based on the discovery of the Ontogenetic Intelligence of Nature and the consequent Unicist Ontology of Evolution.

The purpose of unicist brand-building is to develop business catalysts. Catalysts are process accelerators. Brands are a natural catalyst for market growth. At the same time, business objects can be used to catalyze the building of brands.

It is necessary to have apprehended the nature of a business and its necessary brand in order to be able to build objects to accelerate brand building. Apprehending the nature implies knowing the ontology of a business and its necessary brand.

The ontology of brands can be defined integrating the purpose, which is the building of goodwill, with the product brand and the institutional image.

Goodwill is a “subjective value” of something that exceeds the “objective value”.  Goodwill is measured in money.

Products are naturally the active function of brand building and the institutional image is the energy conservation function. If one of them fails, brand generate negative goodwill.

It has to be considered that business objects are adaptive systems developed to produce a predefined result. They emulate the organization of nature. E. g. a tree is an object. Individuals will have accelerated evolution if they can move trees from one environment to another. Brand building is accelerated if the adequate objects are used.

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Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is the major research organization in the world in its specialty based on more than 3,500 researches in complexity science, developed since 1976 until September 2010,  applied to individual, institutional and social evolution. The applicative researches are based on the discovery of the Ontogenetic Intelligence of Nature and the consequent Unicist Ontology of Evolution.

Decisions have been made when they have been implemented. Before their implementation they are just hypothetical wishes.

The speed of decision making depends on the type of logical thinking of individuals. It has to be considered that speed is defined by the chronological lap between a new fact and the implemented real action to exert accurate influence.

The more evolved the logical thinking of individuals the higher the speed of action:

1) Analogical thinking drives to no decisions because personal needs and beliefs prevail. The speed is “0” (zero)

2) Operational thinking requires making the necessary technical analytical studies to define the problem and the possible solution. This is considered the standard time for decision making.

3) Analytical thinking allows focusing the operational technical analytical studies. This doubles the speed of operational thinking.

4) Systemic (Scientific) thinking focuses on a specific operation which reduces the cost of the preparation of decision making based on the existence of a hypothesis for a solution. This doubles the speed of analytical thinking.

5) Conceptual thinking provides the ontological structure that underlies the operation. It allows defining the essential drivers of the solution. This doubles the speed of systemic thinking.

6) Unicist thinking provides the understanding of the boundaries of the solution allowing the development of a plan B (including an entropy inhibitor) and a plan C (including a catalyst). This doubles the speed of conceptual thinking.

Conclusion

Internal speed cannot be accelerated without producing paradoxical results.

Internal speed evolves with the individual but a sudden acceleration drives individuals towards analogical thinking.

It has to be considered that the mass of the population tends to use analogical thinking at work. Teamwork decisions need to accept that a train has the speed of its slowest wagon (metaphor).

The above mentioned speeds have been empirically confirmed.

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Peter Belohlavek

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is the major research organization in the world in its specialty based on more than 3,500 researches in complexity science, developed since 1976 until September 2010,  applied to individual, institutional and social evolution. The applicative researches are based on the discovery of the Ontogenetic Intelligence of Nature and the consequent Unicist Ontology of Evolution.