Beyond Dispute

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Beyond Dispute

1994 (John Wiley, Chichester). Abbreviation: BD. Subtitle: The Invention of Team Syntegrity. Team Syntegrity launched at Manchester Business School, January 1990 (TBYT 2009: 359).

Pure VSM — Overview Part IV takes BD as main source. Hierarchy “never” suffices (BD 1994: 3); the Viable System Model is “not a hierarchical but a circular model” (BD 1994: 148). Design goal: “a perfect democracy” (BD 1994: 12). Part Five (“Collaborators’ Surplus”) is by other authors and is not cited as Beer. Not project canon.

Where it is drawn on

Part IV — Team Syntegrity chs 20–23 (Team Syntegrity). A passing org-chart critique in ch. 4.

Formulation notes

From Pure VSM — Appendix: “syntegrity” from “synergistic tensegrity” (BD 1994: 14) vs “syntegration” as “synergistic integrity” (BD 1994: 197); protocol as three parts — Problem Jostle, Topic Auction, Outcome Resolve (BD 1994: 21) vs eight episodes (BD 1994: 111). Word syntegrity attributed to Boris Freesman (BD 1994: 14).

Stafford Beer · Team Syntegrity · Viable System Model · Think Before You Think · Pure VSM — Overview