Many pages of notes and commentaries describe in details various approaches to global strategies, and their limits. Such are Strategic ecosystem: beyond "The Plan",Global strategies project – Strategic ecosystem: beyond "The Plan". Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Governance (a series of pages on reports from the Club of Rome, the Commission on Global Governance, and four others groups),Global strategies project – Governance: the resolutique. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Strategic denial: action inhibition,Global strategies project – Strategic denial: action inhibition. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Post-crisis opportunities: range of strategies,Global strategies project – Post-crisis opportunities: range of strategies. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. and Post-crisis opportunities: strategies in chaos.Global strategies project – Post-crisis opportunities: strategies in chaos. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. A long series of pages explores how to "move beyond the unimodal answer and recognize that because each form of action has both strengths and weaknesses, the key to a more effectively multimodal answer lies in finding how to interrelate the various unimodal answers so that they correct for each others weaknesses and counteract each others excesses .” But, it must also be asked, is integrated action of any type feasible at this time? The exploration begins with Strategic appropriateness: questionable answers,Global strategies project – Strategic appropriateness: questionable answers. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. and finishes with Action implications: consensus, uncertainty and action formulation.Global strategies project – Action implications: consensus, uncertainty and action formulation. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Conditions for progress in strategy-making are more explicitly brought up in pages such as Strategic ecosystem: integrating constraint and opposition,Global strategies project – Strategic ecosystem: integrating constraint and opposition. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. and Post-crisis opportunities: in quest of radical coherence.Global strategies project – Post-crisis opportunities: in quest of radical coherence. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Patterns and metaphors The purpose of that projectPatterns and metaphors project. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. is to review the range of communication possibilities of metaphor, pattern and symbol. New conceptual tools are required to configure very large quantities of information into patterns that are both memorable and meaningful, and metaphor is often the only means to deal comprehensibly with complexity.Encyclopedia of world problems and human potential project – Overview: distinguishing uses of the Encyclopedia. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Moreover, exploring “ new ways of thinking ” in the light of enhanced mental imagery (or mental model) appears indispensable inasmuch as furthering “ mobilization of public opinion ” and the “ political will to change ” is dependent upon insights that are too complex to be easily communicable.Metaphors and patterns project: summary. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. For instance, limitations of dualistic thinking are well-known and holistic approaches may represent more desirable alternatives, but how is it possible to implement such alternatives? The page Challenge: transcending the "switch" metaphor deals with that question.Governance through metaphor project – Challenge: transcending the "switch" metaphor. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Reviews and criticisms There has been several reviews of the Encyclopedia.Selected reviews of the Encyclopedia. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. One of the harshest criticisms came from the American Library Association in 1987: "The board considers the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential a problematic monument to idiosyncrasy, confusion, and obfuscation that certainly is not worth purchasing at any price."Booklist, v.83, p.698, American Library Association, January 1987 Similarly, The Guardian was extremely critical in a review article published in 1992, to which Anthony Judge recently responded via Transcend Media ServiceFlatulence is a Problem Aired, by Anthony Judge, Transcend Media Service, January 2013. on the occasion of the publication in The Wall Street Journal of a page-one sympathetic review of the Encyclopedia initiative, in December 2012.Encyclopedia of World Problems Has a Big One of Its Own, a Wall Street Journal article, by Daniel Michaels, December 11 , 2012. The work itself is keen on presenting, in various places, disclaimers, reservations or warning texts that anticipate criticisms and explain the strengths and weaknessesEncyclopedia of world problems and human potential project – Assessment: strengths and weaknesses. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 15 January 2013. of its approaches, including the failure to advocate a position, or the sometimes excessive complexity in its methods or language.Encyclopedia of world problems and human potential project – Assessment: criticism. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Most reviews are laudatory, however. Richard Slaughter emphasized that the significance of the work is not its size or the scope of its references, impressive though these are. It is rather in the nature of what has been attempted. The accompanying notes and commentaries, he said, are good enough to be published separately because they contain highly cogent observations on the "global problematique", commentaries on the work of numerous great thinkers from a wide variety of fields, and an impressive array of insights about the epistemology, symbolism, metaphysics, metaphors and linguistic representations of the subject.A meta-linguistic resource Richard A. Slaughter, Futures, Oxford, 1992 As far as practice is concerned, the highest commendation perhaps is to be found in the words of Elise Boulding: "Any one of us (...) can actively become a part in the world problem solving process by using this encyclopedia."Encyclopedia review. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011.
Many pages of notes and commentaries describe in details various approaches to global strategies, and their limits. Such are Strategic ecosystem: beyond "The Plan",Global strategies project – Strategic ecosystem: beyond "The Plan". Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Governance (a series of pages on reports from the Club of Rome, the Commission on Global Governance, and four others groups),Global strategies project – Governance: the resolutique. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Strategic denial: action inhibition,Global strategies project – Strategic denial: action inhibition. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Post-crisis opportunities: range of strategies,Global strategies project – Post-crisis opportunities: range of strategies. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. and Post-crisis opportunities: strategies in chaos.Global strategies project – Post-crisis opportunities: strategies in chaos. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. A long series of pages explores how to "move beyond the unimodal answer and recognize that because each form of action has both strengths and weaknesses, the key to a more effectively multimodal answer lies in finding how to interrelate the various unimodal answers so that they correct for each others weaknesses and counteract each others excesses ". But, it must also be asked, is integrated action of any type feasible at this time? The exploration begins with Strategic appropriateness: questionable answers,Global strategies project – Strategic appropriateness: questionable answers. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. and finishes with Action implications: consensus, uncertainty and action formulation.Global strategies project – Action implications: consensus, uncertainty and action formulation. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Conditions for progress in strategy-making are more explicitly brought up in pages such as Strategic ecosystem: integrating constraint and opposition,Global strategies project – Strategic ecosystem: integrating constraint and opposition. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. and Post-crisis opportunities: in quest of radical coherence.Global strategies project – Post-crisis opportunities: in quest of radical coherence. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Patterns and metaphors The purpose of that projectPatterns and metaphors project. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. is to review the range of communication possibilities of metaphor, pattern and symbol. New conceptual tools are required to configure very large quantities of information into patterns that are both memorable and meaningful, and metaphor is often the only means to deal comprehensibly with complexity.Encyclopedia of world problems and human potential project – Overview: distinguishing uses of the Encyclopedia. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Moreover, exploring " new ways of thinking " in the light of enhanced mental imagery (or mental model) appears indispensable inasmuch as furthering " mobilization of public opinion " and the " political will to change " is dependent upon insights that are too complex to be easily communicable.Metaphors and patterns project: summary. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. For instance, limitations of dualistic thinking are well-known and holistic approaches may represent more desirable alternatives, but how is it possible to implement such alternatives? The page Challenge: transcending the "switch" metaphor deals with that question.Governance through metaphor project – Challenge: transcending the "switch" metaphor. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Reviews and criticisms There has been several reviews of the Encyclopedia.Selected reviews of the Encyclopedia. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. One of the harshest criticisms came from the American Library Association in 1987: "The board considers the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential a problematic monument to idiosyncrasy, confusion, and obfuscation that certainly is not worth purchasing at any price."Booklist, v.83, p.698, American Library Association, January 1987 Similarly, The Guardian was extremely critical in a review article published in 1992, to which Anthony Judge recently responded via Transcend Media ServiceFlatulence is a Problem Aired, by Anthony Judge, Transcend Media Service, January 2013. on the occasion of the publication in The Wall Street Journal of a page-one sympathetic review of the Encyclopedia initiative, in December 2012.Encyclopedia of World Problems Has a Big One of Its Own, a Wall Street Journal article, by Daniel Michaels, 11 December 2012. The work itself is keen on presenting, in various places, disclaimers, reservations or warning texts that anticipate criticisms and explain the strengths and weaknessesEncyclopedia of world problems and human potential project – Assessment: strengths and weaknesses. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 15 January 2013. of its approaches, including the failure to advocate a position, or the sometimes excessive complexity in its methods or language.Encyclopedia of world problems and human potential project – Assessment: criticism. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011. Most reviews are laudatory, however. Richard Slaughter emphasized that the significance of the work is not its size or the scope of its references, impressive though these are. It is rather in the nature of what has been attempted. The accompanying notes and commentaries, he said, are good enough to be published separately because they contain highly cogent observations on the "global problematique", commentaries on the work of numerous great thinkers from a wide variety of fields, and an impressive array of insights about the epistemology, symbolism, metaphysics, metaphors and linguistic representations of the subject.A meta-linguistic resource Richard A. Slaughter, Futures, Oxford, 1992 As far as practice is concerned, the highest commendation perhaps is to be found in the words of Elise Boulding: "Any one of us (...) can actively become a part in the world problem solving process by using this encyclopedia."Encyclopedia review. Union of International Associations. Retrieved on 23 November 2011.
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