#iceberg model

[roboverse]

The Aligned Continuity Iceberg

It has jokes, conspiracies, and facts and is levelled from least obscure to most obscure.

Joke: June Darby is a robot fucker

Conspiracy: Starscream and Megatron are reincarnated primes

Fact: The Aligned Continuity was almost named “Epochs”

[roboverse]

Calling all Transformers: Prime enthusiasts!

If you know any strange, weird, or otherwise unknown Transformers: Prime knowledge, I would like you to DM me it!

This includes obscure interviews, toys, conspiracy theories, and accounts! I’m creating an iceberg model for Transformers: Prime and would appreciate some assistance! Thank you! :>

[procurement-insights]

The familiar iceberg graphic addresses 10% of the system. Here is the other 90%.

Reimagining The Familiar (and Outdated) Iceberg Graphic

[censemaking]

Designing Mental Models

Designing Mental Models - this might be the ultimate point we can reasonably change the world. #change #design #systemsthinking

Thoughts of changing our world won’t yield much without examining our mental models. That means designing for how we think, not just what we think.

When looking to generate some kind of major systems change — whether that’s your own life, that of your organizations’ , or social change — understanding the layers of activity and ways of perceiving those layersare critical. We can’t make…

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The Three Divides

The Ego to Eco framework begins with what is called the iceberg model of the current socioeconomic system.

Progressing through the levels of the iceberg from surface to depth will illuminate several blind spots that can help us rebuild our economy and society to be more intentional, inclusive, and inspired.

Like the tip of an iceberg the 10% that is visible above the waterline the symptoms of our…

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How to Handle Conflicts

Or an alternative title: The ABC of thesis writing

My internship earlier this year was at a coaching and training company which customizes the process and focuses on several special areas, and one of them is change management. When I browsed through the workshop and training materials, I encountered a thing called iceberg theory: when one faces conflicts or changes, one only shows a little and if you have to deal with it, you have to discern all the messages from few signals, including anger, wish or disappointment so that you can go straight and do something about it. 

Anyone who reads novels or who listens to a friend talking about her own love affairs and tries to give some quality advice knows what to do in this kind of situation. A model does not help you understand more.

For example, this model, though I personally have seen it in German, English, translated it into Chinese, did not help me at all understand what Mr. Mean Comments was thinking when he asked me to write in any human language while I was obviously using English. I was trying, as many other students would do, to understand what the hidden message behind those piercing words was. I sometimes even took it, not without sarcasm, as a real life practice of Derrida’s theory of writing, of the death of the author (with this term of course I was playing with the pun and cursing him at the same time). 

I finally realized, during a facebook conversation with one of the fellow graduate students in my institute, that the best thing to survive-- or persist with your stance-- is not to see the whole thing as a conflict, but as a missed process of communication, or more radical-- a process of negotiation.

Use Mr. Mean Comments as an example.

I don’t need anymore to win over Mr. Mean Comments, either in terms of his favorite master thesis nor in terms of a good score to my master thesis. I want to finish my project and that’s it, period. I am not going to ignite a fire just because I can’t satisfy his endless pursuit of quality. I am going to let go of it and be clear about what I want and need. So that’s my ABC now:

1. State clear your goal

2. Hear from the other side

3. Decide together how to proceed

But Mr. Mean Comments is never so easy. He never responds to any of my questions or mails. The only thing he did was proofreading my drafts and giving destructive critiques. So I decide to add one more principle:

4. Don’t show emotional breakouts.......

For the last one, I was thinking if I should send him an email, confronting him and telling him that he shouldn’t bully me anymore with his words or I WON’T LET YOU BULLY ME WITH YOUR WORDS ANYMORE all in big letters. I had one particular vivid dream about it and in the dream, I did’t dare to log into my email account to see his response...

So there should be another principle: 

0. Take a deep breath and close your eyes when you do the following...