The objective of this program is to disseminate worldwide the use of the unicist ontological approaches to manage adaptive systems.

The R&D of complex adaptive systems belongs to the field of complexity science which was and is the field of Peter Belohlavek’s research.

He was the discoverer of the ontogenetic intelligence of nature, of the unicist ontology of evolution, human ontointelligence and multiple applications in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution.

Peter Belohlavek will be in charge of these lectures to give worldwide access to the main applicative unicist ontology based and object driven solutions developed using this approach.

The presentations are live 10-minute mini-lectures (Wednesdays 2:00 pm New York time) for guests, which will then be available on Youtube on the channel of The Unicist Research Institute:
http://www.youtube.com/user/UnicistStandard

NOTE: The Unicist Research Institute is a pioneer in complexity science research. More than 4,000 ontological researches were developed since 1976 until July 2011 in the field of individual, institutional and social evolution. They allowed describing the “DNA” of institutions, defined by the ontogenetic algorithms of their functions, and manage them using ontology based and business object driven solutions.

The expansion of businesses implies expanding their vital space. This requires having both a growth ethics and a growth ideology.

In order to grow, healthcare businesses need to have the capacity to expand the boundaries with a strong patient-orientation and need to be able to develop a competitive advantage that has to be perceived by the market.

Growth is based on an attitude, which is what appears on the surface of the integration of growth ethics and growth ideology.

Growth is an attitude that is perceived, in most of the cultures, as a taboo. Therefore, it needs to be justified with an additional value generation for the market and for the coming generations.

Installing an expansion-model requires a leader who represents this growth ethics and ideology and is able to transform them into operational procedures. This leader has to be strong because s/he has to overcome the opposition of the conservatives who will try to avoid the expansion of the business in order to sustain their comfort zone.

Businesses are simple when businessmen/women have their business-model in their minds and their customers find the product or service they are seeking for.

Easy businesses are similar to simple businesses but they have no differentiated attributes for the seller.

Simple businesses expand and easy businesses become marginal.

Simple businesses imply that they are evidently possible, manageable with cause-effect actions and necessary.

The first step is to apprehend their possibility and then see if they are manageable. While management can be learned, apprehending the actual possibility is a precondition for learning.

But what is simple for someone is not simple for another one. Something is simple when it can be intuitively approached. It has to be considered that intuition includes the necessary knowledge to make something simple.

The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) business is simple but this simplicity needs to be materialized in a simple organization to become successful.

The unified field of the business, defined by its concept, needs to be known to make the business manageable to become simple. “Luck” is also a precondition. As a football player said: “The more I train, the luckier I get”.

Simplicity is the starting point and designing simple businesses is the goal. Unicist reflection, which is based on action, is the pathway from simplicity to simple ways of action.

The research on the “unicist unified field of human complex adaptive systems”, with its 36 ontological entities, allowed overcoming the milestone of 4,000 ontological researches developed at The Unicist Research Institute.

This goal has been achieved 60 days before its deadline. Now it can be said that all the relevant aspects of individual, institutional and social evolution have been researched.

The discovery of the ontological structure of biological entities opened the field of apprehending the unified field of adaptive systems. The understanding of the dynamics of adaptive systems at an ontological level, such as businesses, allowed defining the possibilities of change and their probabilities of success.

The discovery of the structure of this adaptive process included as a final purpose the functionality of the adaptive system, aesthetics as the active function and ethical rules as the energy conservation function.  This changes the paradigms of future scenario and strategy building as well as the organizational design of adaptive systems.

This milestone triggers the launching of the Unicist Library for Businesses and the Unicist Library for Country Scenarios which was foreseen to occur in October. This launching will now happen on August 1, 2011.

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Organizational equilibrium is defined by the values of organizations. A business strategy needs to end with an organizational design that basically has to integrate the business processes defining the centrifugal forces of the company in order to expand and the centripetal forces in order to generate profits and grow as an organization.

Organizational equilibrium is the integration of the equilibrium with the environment and the internal equilibrium of organizations.

The apparent paradox is given by the fact that actions are the energy conservation function for organizational equilibrium. Therefore it is implicit that inaction destroys organizational equilibrium and, if generalized, produces the destruction of an organization.

The driver of organizational equilibrium is the environmental adaptation that needs to be defined according to the stage and positioning of an organization.

When the organization needs to expand a centrifugal disequilibrium needs to be designed. When an organization needs to generate profits a centripetal disequilibrium needs to be defined.

These situations need to be designed and adequately complemented in order to ensure results.

Consequences of the use of organizational equilibrium:

1)    Organizational strategy is materialized in the design and management of the necessary organizational equilibrium.
2)    The generation of energy and its flow requires implicitly the existence of disequilibrium.
3)    Centrifugal and centripetal functions of organizations need to be integrated to generate organizational equilibrium.
4)    Start up organizations cannot start being equilibrated. Equilibration is the consequence of maturity.
5)    Involving organizations are naturally centripetal.
6)    Inaction destroys organizational equilibrium
7)    Growth requires generating centrifugal actions in the environment to generate the necessary added value to be able to develop a maximal strategy and having the funding of the shareholders to sustain these actions.
8)    ROI thinking is basic to be able to manage organizational equilibrium.
9)    Institutions need to manage organizational equilibrium. Short term projects do not need to be equilibrated.
10)    Entrepreneurial organizations need equilibrium if they have long term objectives.

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The authority conflict is the starting point that defines successful negotiations. Without this conflict, the negotiation does not begin. Those that disregard the importance of this stage are always re-opening negotiations without being able to stabilize their roles in it.

The purpose of the negotiation context is to produce an evolution conflict that allows building a complementation.

The active function to produce this evolution conflict is the existence of an authority conflict that is necessary to define the “value” of the parts involved in a negotiation.

After the authoritative role of the parts has been accepted an involution conflict begins. In this involution conflict each part tries to prevail over the other one and finally, the evolution conflict solving is possible after the need to “degrade” the opponent has finished and both parts accept their mutual values.

The negotiating attitude is what allows starting a negotiation by facing an authority conflict, followed by the need to avoid the involution produced by an involution conflict and ending with the building of a complementation that is implicit in an evolution conflict.

To deal with the nature of negotiations it is necessary to clarify the nature of conflicts that underlies.

It can be said that there are four basic conflicts between humans:

1) Evolution conflicts: These are complementation conflicts that result from the mutual difference between the parts.
2) Involution conflicts: These are the conflicts that result from the supplementation of the colliding strengths between the parts.
3) Authority conflicts: They result from the need of the parts to prevail in some field.
4) Absence of conflict: This is the consequence of needing to avoid conflicts because their consequences cannot be faced.

When the purpose to be achieved in a negotiation is clear, the authority role has to be the first main concern so as to be able to play an authoritative role in the negotiation.

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*Based on an excerpt from the book “Unicist Object Driven Negotiation” by Peter Belohlavek.

The natural organization applied to business is a meta-model that defines the ideology that has to be included in any business process design.

Meta-models establish the generic rules that correspond to a type of business, to the characteristics of a process and of an environment.

Adaptive business units need to be focused on results, because results are the only possible confirmation of the validity of their strategy and organization. This is the natural organization that needs to be considered.

It is necessary to understand the ideology implicit in the organizational models and their functionality. The unicist approach to organizations is unideological but it considers the ideologies included in the organizational models to use them in a functional way.

Managing organizations implies understanding the ideology implicit in the functionality of the organizational models in order to sustain the permanence and growth of companies.

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The Unicist Standard presented by Peter Belohlavek provides the necessary taxonomic steps and objects to be able to develop object driven continuous improvement which minimizes the need for change and thus the change resistance. Continuous Improvement is necessarily integrated with Innovation and Change Management.

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Foundation-building is the bridge between analogical thinking and operational thinking.

The approach to external reality in businesses requires the use of analogical thinking. The recognition of an external reality requires projecting on it the internal image one has.

External facts become “UFOs” if one has no internal image to project. This projection comes from the use of analogical thinking which happens spontaneously and unconsciously.

Individual’s thinking process begins when the individual is able to analyze the unconscious perception made by his analogical thinking process and is able to change it after having recognized the subjective aspects s/he deposited on the external fact.

If this projection remains unchanged the individual unavoidable needs to enter in the “stagnated survivor ethics” in order to benefit from the environment exerting the necessary and justified power to obtain benefits without generating value. Ignorance generates stagnated survivors.

Understanding the foundations of reality is what allows moving from analogical to operational thinking. The technical-analytical knowledge is what allows building reasonable, provable and understandable foundations.

People who are installed in stagnant survivor ethics cannot deal with foundation building. They always have a justification to avoid acquiring the necessary knowledge.

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Inner freedom is the capacity of individuals to assume the responsibility they have, making conscious adapted decisions.

Inner freedom can be earned by those individuals who are able to assume the responsibility for their adapted actions in an environment being able to leave aside their own needs when making decisions.

People have lost their freedom when needs drive their actions.

Therefore, inner freedom is something people gain step by step, if they are able to pay the prices, or lose step by step, if they need to impose their rules.

It can be said that inner freedom is a utopia when instinctive needs, emotional needs and social values are sort of inhibitors for inner freedom.

Individuals who achieved inner freedom can make accurate decisions based on their capacity to do and to discriminate their inside from the outside which allows them to assume the individual, social and transcendent responsibility.

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