Linear-rational thinking is privileged in mainstream corporations, hence there is risk by disregarding systemic thinking at management. In adittion, holistic thinking is not enough (see Asian culture-firms), thus humanism ought to be included.
Quantum mechanics and alterity (otherness) are melt to generate quantum humanism. Examples are shown that correlates quantum thinking (systemic-holistic) with management
Research done in three Latin American companies that practice participatory-democratic management is briefly presented
George Kelly developed the cognitive theory of personality known as personal construct theory. This theory views individuals as scientists who develop constructs, or templates, to interpret and anticipate events. Kelly believed that personality is defined by how one construes personal experiences, and that thoughts determine emotions and behaviors. A core concept is that people freely create constructs and can change their thoughts to change their moods, anxiety levels, and relationships.
The document discusses several ideas in cognitive sciences including embodied cognition, extended cognition, situated cognition, and enactive cognition. It notes that cognitive sciences encompass multiple disciplines including neuroscience, AI, experimental psychology, and more. It also discusses theories that cognition is embodied, situated in the environment, extended across objects, and enactive through sensorimotor engagement with the world rather than representational.
Cutting through false dualisms: Transformative social change as a moral frame...Robert Beshara
My doctoral qualifying exam, which was an oral presentation...
In the paper, I think deeply about the moral dimension of psychological research, while drawing from Buddhism, phenomenology, and critical psychology.
This document discusses heart-centered consciousness as one of seven modes of consciousness. It explores the heart chakra in particular and the qualities associated with a balanced heart-centered state, including compassion, wisdom, and love. An imbalanced heart chakra can result in codependency, sentimentality, or callousness, while a balanced state is caring, generous, and sensitive. Biologically, a heart-centered focus relates to health, as the heart generates the largest electromagnetic field in the body and emotional stress increases risks of heart disease.
The document discusses schemas and prototypes in social psychology. It defines schemas as mental frameworks that help organize and interpret information. Schemas can be useful but can also lead to stereotypes. Prototypes are cognitive representations that exemplify the essential features of a category. The document provides examples of schemas and prototypes, and discusses how schemas can influence attention, memory, judgments and behavior through assimilation, accommodation and self-fulfilling prophecies. It also notes some problems with overreliance on schemas.
The document discusses the concept of metabletics, which aims to understand the intrinsic connection between present and past scientific and social phenomena through analyzing historical changes. It outlines six principles of the metabletical method, including non-interference, reality, change, simultaneity, unique incidents, and emphasis. It then analyzes how the development of linear perspective in the 15th century changed humanity's relationship with the world by introducing a detached, singular viewpoint that eclipsed the body. Metabletic phenomenology sees psychological reality as metaphorical and examines how changes in how humanity envisions reality actually change reality itself.
Personal construct theory (PCT) states that personality develops through our cognitive constructions or interpretations of life events. It views people as active organisms who anticipate events based on their personal constructs, which are conclusions they draw about life. The fundamental postulate of PCT is that a person's psychological processes are channeled by how they anticipate events. It consists of this postulate and 11 corollaries describing how people form constructs to make sense of their experiences and predict future events.
1) Highmore traces how ordinary lives are shaped by our interactions with everyday objects like furniture, clothes, and tools. While people act on objects, objects also act back on us in subtle ways through their presence and functionality.
2) He examines the psychoanalytic effects of objects from childhood into adulthood, such as how transitional objects help children develop, and the desire to consume and possess objects stems from envy of their stillness and "thingness."
3) Focusing on a campus chair from the 1970s, Highmore analyzes its social and usage history to understand its particular qualities beyond just its material form, demonstrating how objects accumulate meaning through personal experiences over time.
George Kelly developed the cognitive theory of personality known as personal construct theory. This theory views individuals as scientists who develop constructs, or templates, to interpret and anticipate events. Kelly believed that personality is defined by how one construes personal experiences, and that thoughts determine emotions and behaviors. A core concept is that people freely create constructs and can change their thoughts to change their moods, anxiety levels, and relationships.
The document discusses several ideas in cognitive sciences including embodied cognition, extended cognition, situated cognition, and enactive cognition. It notes that cognitive sciences encompass multiple disciplines including neuroscience, AI, experimental psychology, and more. It also discusses theories that cognition is embodied, situated in the environment, extended across objects, and enactive through sensorimotor engagement with the world rather than representational.
Cutting through false dualisms: Transformative social change as a moral frame...Robert Beshara
My doctoral qualifying exam, which was an oral presentation...
In the paper, I think deeply about the moral dimension of psychological research, while drawing from Buddhism, phenomenology, and critical psychology.
This document discusses heart-centered consciousness as one of seven modes of consciousness. It explores the heart chakra in particular and the qualities associated with a balanced heart-centered state, including compassion, wisdom, and love. An imbalanced heart chakra can result in codependency, sentimentality, or callousness, while a balanced state is caring, generous, and sensitive. Biologically, a heart-centered focus relates to health, as the heart generates the largest electromagnetic field in the body and emotional stress increases risks of heart disease.
The document discusses schemas and prototypes in social psychology. It defines schemas as mental frameworks that help organize and interpret information. Schemas can be useful but can also lead to stereotypes. Prototypes are cognitive representations that exemplify the essential features of a category. The document provides examples of schemas and prototypes, and discusses how schemas can influence attention, memory, judgments and behavior through assimilation, accommodation and self-fulfilling prophecies. It also notes some problems with overreliance on schemas.
The document discusses the concept of metabletics, which aims to understand the intrinsic connection between present and past scientific and social phenomena through analyzing historical changes. It outlines six principles of the metabletical method, including non-interference, reality, change, simultaneity, unique incidents, and emphasis. It then analyzes how the development of linear perspective in the 15th century changed humanity's relationship with the world by introducing a detached, singular viewpoint that eclipsed the body. Metabletic phenomenology sees psychological reality as metaphorical and examines how changes in how humanity envisions reality actually change reality itself.
Personal construct theory (PCT) states that personality develops through our cognitive constructions or interpretations of life events. It views people as active organisms who anticipate events based on their personal constructs, which are conclusions they draw about life. The fundamental postulate of PCT is that a person's psychological processes are channeled by how they anticipate events. It consists of this postulate and 11 corollaries describing how people form constructs to make sense of their experiences and predict future events.
1) Highmore traces how ordinary lives are shaped by our interactions with everyday objects like furniture, clothes, and tools. While people act on objects, objects also act back on us in subtle ways through their presence and functionality.
2) He examines the psychoanalytic effects of objects from childhood into adulthood, such as how transitional objects help children develop, and the desire to consume and possess objects stems from envy of their stillness and "thingness."
3) Focusing on a campus chair from the 1970s, Highmore analyzes its social and usage history to understand its particular qualities beyond just its material form, demonstrating how objects accumulate meaning through personal experiences over time.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s approach to consciousness DMLab
This document discusses Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological approach to consciousness and perception, specifically his view that perception and consciousness are embodied and rooted in our lived experiences with objects and the world, rather than being detached or abstract. Merleau-Ponty emphasized that the body is both a subject of perception and an object that can be perceived, and that there is an intertwining relationship between the perceiving body and the world through which meanings are formed in a pre-reflective sense. His work has influenced later scholars seeking to understand embodied cognition, neurophenomenology, and the interrelations between mind, body, and experience.
John Kelly developed the theory of personal constructs which proposes that individuals perceive and interpret phenomena through constructs which are concepts or ideas used to understand experiences. Personal constructs are bipolar and dichotomous, having two opposite poles. Constructs have properties like range of applicability, focus of applicability, and permeability. There are different types of constructs including pre-emptive, constellatory, and assumptive constructs. Constructs can also be classified as comprehensive or private, main or peripheral, and hard or loose.
Co-presented with Dr. Karin H.K. Wondracek at Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) International Conference - Indianapolis/IN, April 2011
George Kelly - Personal Construct Theory- Princy HannahPRINCYHANNAHA
George Kelly was an American psychologist known for developing the personal construct theory of personality. Some key points about Kelly:
- He was born in 1905 in Kansas and earned degrees from Park College and University of Kansas, receiving his PhD in 1931.
- During World War II, he worked as an aviation psychologist and later became a professor at Ohio State University, where he developed his cognitive theory of personality.
- Kelly's personal construct theory proposes that personality arises from the constructs through which people interpret events, and that these constructs can change over time based on new experiences. Individuals actively test constructs against reality.
This document provides an overview of knowledge in economic and management theories. It discusses how major thinkers have treated knowledge differently. Early neoclassical economists like Marshall focused on existing knowledge represented by prices but neglected knowledge creation. Austrian economists like Hayek and Schumpeter emphasized subjective knowledge and its role in driving economic change. Later theorists viewed firms as repositories of knowledge. The document also contrasts "scientific management" theories which formalized workers' knowledge with human relations theories emphasizing social factors and interpersonal skills. Barnard attempted to synthesize the mechanistic and humanistic views of management.
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The document discusses managing businesses for well-being rather than just profit. It summarizes the agenda which includes why well-being should matter to businesses given their power and society's expectations. The Humanistic Management Network is introduced which works to develop a novel paradigm of managing toward a life-conducive economic system through publishing, teaching, consulting and supporting public policy. It has over 800 collaborators globally working on these goals.
This document discusses three approaches to humanistic management. The first approach in the mid-20th century focused on human motivations and centered on meeting human needs and promoting self-actualization. The second approach in the 1980s considered organizational culture and how culture influences behaviors and decision-making. The third emerging approach views a business as a real community that promotes unity and acquiring virtues among people to achieve more ethical and efficient organizations. This third approach presents the greatest challenge but also provides the most complete consideration of the human condition.
An alternative conceptual model for a corporate board as a parental archetype, and the firm as its android child. Costly, systemic power imbalances and conflicts of interest, inherent in the conventional model, are resolved by applying ancient Roman property law principles (usus, fructus, and abusus).
OECD Workshop: Measuring Business Impacts on People’s Well-being, Michael PirsonStatsCommunications
OECD Workshop: Measuring Business Impacts on People’s Well-being, 23-24 February 2017, Paris, France, More information at: http://www.oecd.org/statistics/oecd-workshop-on-measuring-business-impacts-on-peoples-well-being.htm
1. Scientific management and psychological humanism both aim to manage human nature to obtain better workers, with scientific management viewing people as naturally 'bad' and psychological humanism viewing people as naturally 'good'.
2. Durkheim analyzed how lack of social solidarity can lead to higher suicide rates, and how organizations regulate themselves to ensure workers 'fit in'.
3. Weber analyzed how rational organization of labor through bureaucracy legitimizes power over workers, identified forms of social action and authority, and discussed bureaucracy as creating an 'iron cage' of rationality in modern society.
Self-Organisation and its influence on the organisational reality.Marcin Czenko
This presentation shows how our understanding of self-organisation and organisational reality is influenced by the history of management when framed in the context of sciences of certainty. I then show how the organisational reality could be understood taken the perspective of sciences of uncertainty. This work is influenced and inspired by the works of Ralph Stacey and many personal observations when training and coaching organisations the empirical process control. This topic was presented during the Agile By Example conference held in Warsaw on October 4-5, 2012 and later during Self-Organisation workshop at ASC Eindhoven (Agile & Software Craftsmanship) on October 18, 2012.
This is a talk I have successfully given 3x prior for over 120 people, and it's been profound the response I've had. This talk is about the structure of evolution, and self-evolution, in particular.
INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION LINK: https://bit.ly/personal-paradigms
It contains some solid frameworks for developing more resilient, flexible, and accurate "roadmaps" for decision-making and life-having.
The agenda:
- What is a paradigm? Definitions & Examples
- How are paradigms powerful? How are they limited?
- Paradigm Shifts
- Some Frameworks to Explore
PERPETUAL SELF CONFLICT: SELF AWARENESS AS A KEYMurray Hunter
PERPETUAL SELF CONFLICT: SELF AWARENESS AS A KEY
TO OUR ETHICAL DRIVE, PERSONAL MASTERY, AND
PERCEPTION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES
Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2011, pp. 96-137
This document discusses different types of problems including problematic problems, complex contradictions, muddy messes, dilemmas, and paradoxes. It notes that problems are often perceived incorrectly due to biases, assumptions, and limited perspectives. Different approaches are needed to address different problem types, such as applying rational problem solving for clear problems, negotiation for contradictions, and exploring dilemmas interactively with stakeholders. True problems cannot be ignored, while non-problems or perceived problems may not require solutions.
The document discusses how a person or group's level of consciousness (independent variable) can affect how they construct social reality (dependent variable) within an organization. It notes that when level of consciousness is low, due to insecurity or other factors, people become reactive, communication breaks down, and productivity suffers. However, when level of consciousness is high, people are better able to problem solve, cooperate and motivate one another to achieve goals. The level of consciousness of individuals and groups shapes how they interpret and respond to their organizational environment.
The document summarizes the philosophical foundations of management thought. It discusses several philosophies including heroism, rationalism, positivism, romanticism, existentialism, and postmodernism. It explains how each philosophy influenced management concepts and theories. The conclusion states that having a deep understanding of these philosophical foundations can help managers think critically and communicate effectively, while also recognizing their own biases. Gaining this philosophical knowledge is important for genuine, lifelong learning in management.
Critical realism is a philosophical approach to social science based on philosophy of science, ontology, and epistemology. It focuses on developing theoretical explanations for observable phenomena in the social world. Critical realism believes there is an unobservable real world that causes observable events. It views reality as having four modes: material, ideal, social, and artifact. Critical realism holds that our knowledge is fallible but there is an objective reality we can know, even if imperfectly. It can be applied to both social science and natural science to analyze how social structures and human actions continuously change over time.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s approach to consciousness DMLab
This document discusses Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological approach to consciousness and perception, specifically his view that perception and consciousness are embodied and rooted in our lived experiences with objects and the world, rather than being detached or abstract. Merleau-Ponty emphasized that the body is both a subject of perception and an object that can be perceived, and that there is an intertwining relationship between the perceiving body and the world through which meanings are formed in a pre-reflective sense. His work has influenced later scholars seeking to understand embodied cognition, neurophenomenology, and the interrelations between mind, body, and experience.
John Kelly developed the theory of personal constructs which proposes that individuals perceive and interpret phenomena through constructs which are concepts or ideas used to understand experiences. Personal constructs are bipolar and dichotomous, having two opposite poles. Constructs have properties like range of applicability, focus of applicability, and permeability. There are different types of constructs including pre-emptive, constellatory, and assumptive constructs. Constructs can also be classified as comprehensive or private, main or peripheral, and hard or loose.
Co-presented with Dr. Karin H.K. Wondracek at Christian Association for Psychological Studies (CAPS) International Conference - Indianapolis/IN, April 2011
George Kelly - Personal Construct Theory- Princy HannahPRINCYHANNAHA
George Kelly was an American psychologist known for developing the personal construct theory of personality. Some key points about Kelly:
- He was born in 1905 in Kansas and earned degrees from Park College and University of Kansas, receiving his PhD in 1931.
- During World War II, he worked as an aviation psychologist and later became a professor at Ohio State University, where he developed his cognitive theory of personality.
- Kelly's personal construct theory proposes that personality arises from the constructs through which people interpret events, and that these constructs can change over time based on new experiences. Individuals actively test constructs against reality.
This document provides an overview of knowledge in economic and management theories. It discusses how major thinkers have treated knowledge differently. Early neoclassical economists like Marshall focused on existing knowledge represented by prices but neglected knowledge creation. Austrian economists like Hayek and Schumpeter emphasized subjective knowledge and its role in driving economic change. Later theorists viewed firms as repositories of knowledge. The document also contrasts "scientific management" theories which formalized workers' knowledge with human relations theories emphasizing social factors and interpersonal skills. Barnard attempted to synthesize the mechanistic and humanistic views of management.
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The document discusses managing businesses for well-being rather than just profit. It summarizes the agenda which includes why well-being should matter to businesses given their power and society's expectations. The Humanistic Management Network is introduced which works to develop a novel paradigm of managing toward a life-conducive economic system through publishing, teaching, consulting and supporting public policy. It has over 800 collaborators globally working on these goals.
This document discusses three approaches to humanistic management. The first approach in the mid-20th century focused on human motivations and centered on meeting human needs and promoting self-actualization. The second approach in the 1980s considered organizational culture and how culture influences behaviors and decision-making. The third emerging approach views a business as a real community that promotes unity and acquiring virtues among people to achieve more ethical and efficient organizations. This third approach presents the greatest challenge but also provides the most complete consideration of the human condition.
An alternative conceptual model for a corporate board as a parental archetype, and the firm as its android child. Costly, systemic power imbalances and conflicts of interest, inherent in the conventional model, are resolved by applying ancient Roman property law principles (usus, fructus, and abusus).
OECD Workshop: Measuring Business Impacts on People’s Well-being, Michael PirsonStatsCommunications
OECD Workshop: Measuring Business Impacts on People’s Well-being, 23-24 February 2017, Paris, France, More information at: http://www.oecd.org/statistics/oecd-workshop-on-measuring-business-impacts-on-peoples-well-being.htm
1. Scientific management and psychological humanism both aim to manage human nature to obtain better workers, with scientific management viewing people as naturally 'bad' and psychological humanism viewing people as naturally 'good'.
2. Durkheim analyzed how lack of social solidarity can lead to higher suicide rates, and how organizations regulate themselves to ensure workers 'fit in'.
3. Weber analyzed how rational organization of labor through bureaucracy legitimizes power over workers, identified forms of social action and authority, and discussed bureaucracy as creating an 'iron cage' of rationality in modern society.
Self-Organisation and its influence on the organisational reality.Marcin Czenko
This presentation shows how our understanding of self-organisation and organisational reality is influenced by the history of management when framed in the context of sciences of certainty. I then show how the organisational reality could be understood taken the perspective of sciences of uncertainty. This work is influenced and inspired by the works of Ralph Stacey and many personal observations when training and coaching organisations the empirical process control. This topic was presented during the Agile By Example conference held in Warsaw on October 4-5, 2012 and later during Self-Organisation workshop at ASC Eindhoven (Agile & Software Craftsmanship) on October 18, 2012.
This is a talk I have successfully given 3x prior for over 120 people, and it's been profound the response I've had. This talk is about the structure of evolution, and self-evolution, in particular.
INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION LINK: https://bit.ly/personal-paradigms
It contains some solid frameworks for developing more resilient, flexible, and accurate "roadmaps" for decision-making and life-having.
The agenda:
- What is a paradigm? Definitions & Examples
- How are paradigms powerful? How are they limited?
- Paradigm Shifts
- Some Frameworks to Explore
PERPETUAL SELF CONFLICT: SELF AWARENESS AS A KEYMurray Hunter
PERPETUAL SELF CONFLICT: SELF AWARENESS AS A KEY
TO OUR ETHICAL DRIVE, PERSONAL MASTERY, AND
PERCEPTION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES
Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2011, pp. 96-137
This document discusses different types of problems including problematic problems, complex contradictions, muddy messes, dilemmas, and paradoxes. It notes that problems are often perceived incorrectly due to biases, assumptions, and limited perspectives. Different approaches are needed to address different problem types, such as applying rational problem solving for clear problems, negotiation for contradictions, and exploring dilemmas interactively with stakeholders. True problems cannot be ignored, while non-problems or perceived problems may not require solutions.
The document discusses how a person or group's level of consciousness (independent variable) can affect how they construct social reality (dependent variable) within an organization. It notes that when level of consciousness is low, due to insecurity or other factors, people become reactive, communication breaks down, and productivity suffers. However, when level of consciousness is high, people are better able to problem solve, cooperate and motivate one another to achieve goals. The level of consciousness of individuals and groups shapes how they interpret and respond to their organizational environment.
The document summarizes the philosophical foundations of management thought. It discusses several philosophies including heroism, rationalism, positivism, romanticism, existentialism, and postmodernism. It explains how each philosophy influenced management concepts and theories. The conclusion states that having a deep understanding of these philosophical foundations can help managers think critically and communicate effectively, while also recognizing their own biases. Gaining this philosophical knowledge is important for genuine, lifelong learning in management.
Critical realism is a philosophical approach to social science based on philosophy of science, ontology, and epistemology. It focuses on developing theoretical explanations for observable phenomena in the social world. Critical realism believes there is an unobservable real world that causes observable events. It views reality as having four modes: material, ideal, social, and artifact. Critical realism holds that our knowledge is fallible but there is an objective reality we can know, even if imperfectly. It can be applied to both social science and natural science to analyze how social structures and human actions continuously change over time.
This document provides a summary of the key topics covered in a social psychology lecture, including:
1. An introduction to social psychology and how human behavior is influenced by others.
2. Exploration of the social self and how people develop social identities and play social roles.
3. Examination of social thinking processes like attribution theory, cognitive dissonance, and social comparison.
4. Discussion of prejudices and how stereotypes form despite efforts to reduce them.
Gestalt methodolgies in organisation researchasg03
This is our (Lars Marmgren and Anette Strömberg) preliminar thoughts about how it can be useful to introduce Gestalt methods in origanisational research and what implications it leads to.
This document provides an overview of critical theory and its application to organizational communication. It discusses the following key points:
1. The roots of critical theory in Frankfurt School philosophy and Marxism, and the view that knowledge and power structures in organizations serve to oppress workers.
2. Critical theorists see organizations as sites of domination by powerful groups over subordinate groups. Power dynamics and whose interests are served are important concerns.
3. Additional concepts discussed include ideology, hegemony, concertive control, and using critical theory to create more ethical and equitable workplaces.
4. Feminist organizational theory, organizational spirituality, and codes of ethics are explored as ways critical theory has been applied within organizations.
Man is not a machine according to the document. While machines can be programmed with logic and can beat humans in narrow problem-solving, they lack creativity, intelligence, and the ability to experience reality and emotions. The document discusses how philosophers and experts have different views on what defines humans but agrees that creativity requires a "magical gift" beyond logic. Machines can only mimic some aspects of human intelligence through programming but cannot match the flexibility and complexity of human thought. The document concludes that stating man is a machine is an oversimplification and the debate on the differences between humans and machines will continue.
Sense of meaning in life is associated with
The feeling that one’s life has purpose and direction.
The perception that a person’s life matters and their experiences make sense.
A meaningful life is predicted by the following:
Positive self-views (e.g., high self-esteem and self-confidence).
Seeing oneself as distinct (i.e., different from others in a positive way).
Sense of self-continuity, meaning a connection between the past and present.
Satisfaction of basic psychological needs—The need for
Autonomy,
Relatedness, and
Competence.
A sense of meaning in life is based on:
Perceptions of life as making sense
Feeling that one’s life matters and is worthy
Having a purpose and moving toward valued goals
The document discusses six major theoretical perspectives in psychology: evolutionary, cognitive, psychodynamic, behavioral, sociocultural, and humanistic. It explains key aspects of each perspective, such as what they focus on and their views on topics like natural selection, how the mind processes information, the effects of unconscious desires on behavior, the impact of external factors like punishment and reward, social influences, and individual free will. The document also mentions that psychologists may use an eclectic approach combining multiple perspectives to study human behavior.
This document discusses the sociological concept of institutionalization from the book "The Social Construction of Reality". It makes several key points:
1) Habitualization of actions leads to institutionalization when there is reciprocal typification of actors performing those actions. This occurs even between two individuals interacting.
2) Institutions inherently involve social control as they define standard roles and behaviors. Additional control mechanisms may reinforce institutions but are not necessary for social control.
3) The process of two individuals interacting and developing shared understandings and expectations of one another's behaviors can be seen as the beginnings of institutionalization, even if on a small scale. Over time, these reciprocal role definitions become institutionalized in societies through interactions between
The document discusses different research paradigms and methodologies including positivism, phenomenology, and post-modernism. It describes the key aspects of each paradigm such as their views on ontology, epistemology, and methodology. Positivism uses the scientific method and emphasizes empirical evidence and objective knowledge. Phenomenology focuses on interpretation and subjective experiences. Post-modernism sees knowledge as constructed through social discourses rather than reflecting an objective reality.
The document discusses consciousness and free will from an emergent perspective. It argues that free will emerges from the complex interaction between our minds, bodies, and environment. Through cognition, homeostasis, personality development, social interactions, and environmental feedback, our sense of agency and ability to make choices evolves in a way that is consistent with both relativity and determinism. While free will may not be strictly proven, it can be understood as a higher-level phenomenon that arises from complex, interdependent systems operating across many levels.
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Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
20 Comprehensive Checklist of Designing and Developing a WebsitePixlogix Infotech
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Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
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Quantum largacha iese v.2.1 video
1. QUANTUM HUMANISM AS A FRAMEWORK FOR
HUMANISTIC MANAGEMENT
Carlos Largacha-Martínez, Ph.D.
Provost for Research
Universidad EAN
clargacha@ean.edu.co
May 14th 2010, IESE, Barcelona
www.ean.edu.co
2. CONTENTS
• Linear-rational thinking is privileged in
mainstream corporations
• There is risk by disregarding systemic thinking at
management.
• Holistic thinking is not enough (see Asian culture-
firms), thus humanism ought to be included
• Quantum mechanics and alterity (otherness)
are melt to generate quantum humanism
• Examples are shown that correlates quantum
thinking (systemic-holistic) with management
• Research done in three Latin American
companies that practice participatory-
democratic management is briefly presented
3. MODERNITOUS THINKING
• The Newtonian idea of having an expert of
knowledge in each part of the big watch of the
universe is part of the linear, rational and
scientific mainstream paradigm (see Kuhn, 1996)
• Aristotelian logic (Law of the Excluded Middle)
• Dualism + the independent nature of reality.
Things are “out there” (objectivity, neutrality)
• Clinton Leaf contends that we are losing the War
on Cancer because the research methods that
have been used are
deterministic, reductionistic, and with cause-
effect analysis, disregarding holistic approaches
(Fortune magazine, 2004: 77ff)
4. “NORMAL” THINKING (like normal science, Kuhn)
• Objectivation + structures + ideologies (see Berger, 1967)
• One Dimensional Man (thinking) (see Marcuse, 1991, Frankfurt Sch.)
• Social pressure. Comparison. “Safes” identities.
Sheep behavior.
Social pressure
IMITATION
Comparison
(suggestion)
Is this the place for a
humanistic manager? FEAR
How authentic (non feeling vulnerable) are you?
5. IN “NORMAL” THINKING, thus:
• People can‟t see alternatives
• Can´t interiorize or comprehend new possible routes.
Their paradigm does not allow them to see it (see Kuhn, 1996)
• Although there are plenty of examples that confirm
their proven existence
• Athens, as a highly civilized democracy (see Manville & Ober, 2003)
• Robert Owen (18th in England) and his „new men‟
• Brazilian company Semco (see Semler 1994; 2003)
• Among several others (see humanet, 2010)
• However, the question that ought to be made is:
Why doesn’t people follow or imitate these
alternative paradigms, these proven
participatory-humanistic examples?
Annette Craven, Alejandro Sanz (and others)
have a possible answer: fear.
6. FEAR leads to CONTROL
Control (synonyms) Humanism (synonyms)
Supervise Compassionate
Discipline Soft-hearted
Power Benevolent
Domination Mild
Authority Chickenhearted
Command Kindly
Superiority Caring
Source: Merriam-Webster®, software Dictionary v.2.6; Office® online dictionary
Are control and humanism antonyms?
8. DECONSTRUCTING MODERNITY
Peter Senge (2005:11) summarizes the need to
deconstruct linear-rational mental models:
“From a very early age, we are taught to break apart
problems, to fragment the world. This apparently makes
complex tasks and subjects more manageable, but we
pay a hidden, enormous price. We can no longer see
the consequences of our actions; we lose our intrinsic
sense of connection to a larger whole. When we then
try to “see the big picture”, we try to reassemble the
fragments in our minds, to list and organize all the
pieces. But, as physicist David Bohm says, the task is
futile—similar to trying to reassemble the fragments of a
broken mirror to see a true reflection. Thus, after a while
we give up trying to see the whole altogether.” (emphasis added)
9. ALTERNATIVE THINKING
• Caritas in veritate demands a “convergence of
these two cognitive fields” that are “at the same
time the truth of faith and of reason”.
• The focus is not anymore on human nature or
human identity, rather on Who is the other?
• Alterity (otherness) relates in how I dignify the Other
in everything that I do.
• Non-ideological stances mean that reality for a
Corporation is something that it is always under
scrutiny, which has always the space to be
reinvented, reconstructed and deconstructed.
• Thinking “outside of the box” (creativity/patterns).
• Social obligations: a broader compromise, like
Liberation Theologians affirmed.
10. HUMANISTIC MANAGER VIS-À-VIS MANAGER
(kind of a continuum)
Modernitous Manager Humanistic Manager
Reason Intuition
Specialization Pattern-style gaze
Accumulation (E.F. Schumacher) Cooperation
Disbelief (to blame, who did it?) Empathy
Elitism Horizontal communication
Powerful Merciful (alterity)
Credo Non-ideological
Individualism/egoism Social obligations
11. ALTERNATIVE THINKING USING QUANTUM MECHANICS
DANCING LESSON FOR DANCING LESSON FOR
NEWTONIAN PHYSICS QUANTUM MECHANICS
Can picture it. Cannot picture it.
Based on ordinary sense perceptions. Based on behavior of subatomic particles
and systems not directly observable.
Describes things; individual objects in Describes statistical behavior of systems.
space and their changes in time.
Predicts events. Predicts probabilities.
Assumes an objective reality “out there”. Does not assume an objective reality apart
from our experience.
We can observe something without We cannot observe something without
changing it. changing it.
Claims to be based on “absolute truth”; Claims only to correlate experience
the way that nature really is “behind the correctly.
scenes”.
Source: The Dancing Wu-Li Masters, Gary Zukav (1979:41)
12. HUMANISTIC MANAGER: A QUANTIC MANAGER?
Humanistic Manager Quantic Manager
Intuition Uncertainty principle (Heisenberg)
Seeing the big picture Ubiquity/Implicate order (Bohm)
Cooperation Holographic principle (Pribram)
Empathy Anthropic principle
Horizontal communication Morphogenetic fields (Sheldrake)
Merciful (alterity) Law of the included middle (Lupasco)
Non-ideological Non-separability
Social obligations Entanglement /Non-locality (Bell)
14. LATIN AMERICAN CASE STUDIES
„Semco (Brazil) has no official structure. It has no
organizational chart. There‟s no business
plan, no goal or mission statement, no long-term
budget. The company often does not have a
fixed CEO. There are no vice presidents or chief
officers for information technology or operations.
There are no standards or practices. There‟s no
human resources department. There are no
career plans, no job descriptions or employee
contracts. No one approves reports or expense
accounts. Supervision or monitoring of workers is
rare indeed. Most important, [and this truly is the
most important] success is not measured only in
profit and growth‟. (Semler, 2003:8)
15. LATIN AMERICAN CASE STUDIES
For Cristina, CEO and mayor stockowner of Area
Loft (Colombia), her work is his reason to be
alive, it is her passion. They formed a
cooperative to have a more cohesive group
and to give them power to make decisions as a
group. Meetings are voluntary and everybody
assist, since they can vote. Cristina can´t fire a
worker, only the cooperative. If they try
something and works, they keep it, even if it is
not „logical‟. For example, the evaluation for a
new worker is a spelling test. Finally, Cristina does
not considers herself a capitalist, in the sense of
making profits by taking advantage of
employees and providers.
16. LATIN AMERICAN CASE STUDIES
„In Acción Fiduciaria (Colombia), the first day on
the job is frustrating. That day nobody take
charge of him, nobody will show him the
company, nobody will tell him his functions, not
even will have lunch with him. The day goes on
and nobody talks to him. Everything is done with a
purpose: confront him with his own traditional
paradigms. If he resists the test and doesn‟t run
away, he will be part of a company where the
self-centered employee is gone and start really
working in and for a team. Now he is part not of a
company, but of a matrix organization. Ironically
as it sounds, this financial company does not
have a budget, there are not job positions, and in
the CEO‟s office the only sign is his name.
17. PATTERNS IN
• These companies show „non-logical‟
approaches toward management
• All the CEOs of these humanistic companies put
being human at the same level of profits
• Information is available to everyone. Everything
can be discussed. Transparency is a must.
• Ethics is a sentiment not a fact, thus they have
zero-tolerance for corruption
• Intrinsic motivators are always first
• They are open to all ideas (“Out of your mind committee?”)
• Participation is highly demanded by coworkers
• Divergent thinking (it is not „easy‟ to talk to them)