All Life Is Problem Solving

The Fifth Plague of Egypt (J. W. M. Turner, 1800) I’d like to thank Olaf Brugman and Jack Vinson for their comments on my blog post about Knowledge Management and Strategy. I am very interested in the parallel between the view of The New Knowledge Management (TNKM) and Rudolf Steiner’s work of 1919, and I […]

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The Burning of Parliament (J. W. M. Turner, 1834) I believe that my friend and collaborator Mark McElroy (2001) was the first to point out the inherent conflict in the very popular, but we think mistaken, idea that Knowledge Management should be aligned to organizational strategy and that its purpose should be to mobilize knowledge […]

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Light and Color (J. W. M. Turner, 1843) In the opening blog of “All Life is Problem Solving”, I gave a general account of how problem solving occurs in living things including humans. In my second post I focused on problem solving at the organizational level. Here I want to develop some ideas about Personal […]

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In the opening blog of “All Life is Problem Solving,” I gave a general account of how problem solving occurs in living things including humans. But are organizations living systems, or, at least, are they like living systems in their problem solving patterns? How does organizational problem solving happen? In seeking an answer to that […]

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I’ve named this blog after a statement from a lecture of Karl Popper’s, delivered in 1991 near the end of his long life. “All Life is Problem Solving” also became the title of a book of his essays published posthumously in 1999 by Routledge. I love the phrase because it sums up his wonderful work […]

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