THE NATURAL SYSTEMS INSTITUTE

THE STRUCTURE OF THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT
TECHNIQUES USED IN ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTS


The Duplex Pyramids

 

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTS

PERSPECTIVES ON GEO-HISTORY

    In this topic, the focus is on developing the broadest possible perspective on External Structures and Systems as a background and orientation before considering human Organizations.  The Global  Encompassing Environment directly but invisibly determines the characteristics of all of the other aspects of human organizations.  The topic, Global Encompassing Environment, is divided into seven lessons listed in the Table below, each addressing major global forces shaping organizations within our culture.  Therefore, in order of degree of significance, our first LESSON is 'PERSPECTIVES ON GEO-HISTORY'.

    Click on the hyperlink "Perspectives on Geo-History" at the top of this page, or in the Table below,  to go to the related slide presentation for the lesson.  There are seven lessons in this topic of Global Environments.  These, with their hyperlinks, are listed in the Table below.

TABLE OF LESSONS FOR GLOBAL ENCOMPASSING ENVIRONMENT

Click on any underlined title below to go the respective slide show lesson

            1. Perspectives on Geo-History
            2. Forces Shaping Modern Metropolitan Community Life
            3. The Effects of the Factory Model on Government, Education, Justice, Economics and
                    the American Character
            4. Separatism, Politics and the Descent into Cultural Insensitivity
            5. Estrangement, Adversarial Law, Litigiousness, Alarmist Media
                    and the Political Descent into a Cultural Mentality of Revenge
            6. The Commons versus the Prisoner's Dilemma and How they Maintain a
                    Counter-Productive Justice System
            7. Economics, Agencies and Dis-Empowering.

 

'Duplex Pyramids' below is the logo of the Natural Systems Institute.  The top inverted pyramid represents layers of  external structures and systems and the bottom pyramid represents layers of internal structures and systems.  The extension of the pyramid to the left represents degrees of distance into the past, while extension to the right represents degrees of projection into the future.  The underlying theoretical assumption is that effective, enduring change in humans and human social systems comes only when these multidimensional relationships of the external, internal, past and future perspectives are all addressed as change efforts are attempted.

  1. Stars and Stripes: A Correctional Program for a Juvenile Institution for Felons

  2. Levels of External and Internal Structures-Processes of Intentionality-and the Art of Restructuring Organizations

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