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==THEE==
==THEE==
The application of ethical design<ref name="Kinston 2">{{cite book|last=Kinston|first=Warren|title=Strengthening the Management Culture|year=1994|publisher=The Sigma Centre|location=London|isbn=1874726019}}</ref> during his career as a consultant led to the development of tools for managers called collectively the ''Technology of Common Sense.'' Pursuing this [[systems thinking]] in additional areas of personal and social life, led Kinston to develop the ''Taxonomy of Human Elements in Endeavour'' (THEE). <ref name=TOP>{{cite web|last=Kinston|first=Warren|title=About Warren Kinston|url=http://www.thee-online.com/About/default.htm#About WK/7. Introducing Myself.htm%3FTocPath%3DAbout%3A%20Warren%20Kinston%7C_____0|publisher=THEE Online Project|accessdate=27 April 2014}}</ref> The topics most comprehensively covered to date are purpose and value including politics,<ref name=Kinston>{{cite book|last=Kinston|first=Warren|title=Working with Values: Software of the Mind|year=1995|publisher=The Sigma Centre|location=London|isbn=1874726027}}</ref> and decision and achievement including many features of management and employment.<ref name="Kinston 2" />
The application of ethical design<ref name="Kinston 2">{{cite book|last=Kinston|first=Warren|title=Strengthening the Management Culture|year=1994|publisher=The Sigma Centre|location=London|isbn=1874726019}}</ref> during his career as a consultant led to the development of tools for managers called collectively the ''Technology of Common Sense.'' Pursuing this [[systems thinking]] in additional areas of personal and social life, led Kinston to develop the ''Taxonomy of Human Elements in Endeavour'' (THEE).<ref>{{cite web|last=Kinston|first=Warren|title=About Warren Kinston|url=http://www.thee-online.com/About/default.htm#About WK/7. Introducing Myself.htm|publisher=THEE Online Project|accessdate=28 April 2014}}</ref> The topics most comprehensively covered to date are purpose and value including politics,<ref name=Kinston>{{cite book|last=Kinston|first=Warren|title=Working with Values: Software of the Mind|year=1995|publisher=The Sigma Centre|location=London|isbn=1874726027}}</ref> and decision and achievement including many features of management and employment.<ref name="Kinston 2" />


The [[Taxonomy (general)|taxonomy]] architecture was discovered by specifying the universal elements of human activity that can come into consciousness in terms of their function, properties, relationships and dynamics. Structural regularities enable the prediction{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} of as yet unspecified elements, much as occurred with the discovery of the [[periodic table of chemical elements]]. Kinston estimates between 5,000 and 10,000 elements or entities could exist within THEE <ref>{{cite web|last=Kinston|first=Warren|title=A Model--not a Theory|url=http://www.thee-online.com/About/default.htm#About THEE/2.2 A Model not a Theory.htm?Highlight=10,000|publisher=THEE Online Project|accessdate=27 April 2014}}</ref> and, as it stands, it is incomplete.
The [[Taxonomy (general)|taxonomy]] architecture was discovered by specifying the universal elements of human activity that can come into consciousness in terms of their function, properties, relationships and dynamics. Structural regularities enable the prediction{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} of as yet unspecified elements, much as occurred with the discovery of the [[periodic table of chemical elements]]. Kinston estimates between 5,000 and 10,000 elements or entities could exist within THEE<ref>{{cite web|last=Kinston|first=Warren|title=A Model--not a Theory|url=http://www.thee-online.com/About/default.htm#About THEE/2.2 A Model not a Theory.htm|publisher=THEE Online Project|accessdate=28 April 2014}}</ref> and, as it stands, it is incomplete.


In 2007, Kinston introduced THEE by invitation <ref name="globalro">{{cite web|title=News Items|url=http://globalro.org/en/component/content/article/9-general/1384-february-2011.html|work=Global Organization Design Society|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref> at the Global Organization Design Conference in [[Toronto]], Canada.<ref>{{cite web|title=Seven-Level Hierarchical Processes (video)|url=http://www.globalro.org/en/go-library/archived-conferences-a-events/2007-world-conference/688.html|work=Global Organization Design Society|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref> He then launched the THEE Online Project in 2008. The interactive website that went public in February 2011 makes new and emerging frameworks generally available. <ref>{{cite web|last=Kinston|first=Warren|title=Journey to TOP|url=http://www.thee-online.com/About/default.htm#About WK/7.2 Journey to TOP.htm%3FTocPath%3DAbout%3A%20Warren%20Kinston%7C_____2|publisher=THEE Online Project|accessdate=27 April 2014}}</ref>
In 2007, Kinston introduced THEE by invitation <ref name="globalro">{{cite web|title=News Items|url=http://globalro.org/en/component/content/article/9-general/1384-february-2011.html|work=Global Organization Design Society|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref> at the Global Organization Design Conference in [[Toronto]], Canada.<ref>{{cite web|title=Seven-Level Hierarchical Processes (video)|url=http://www.globalro.org/en/go-library/archived-conferences-a-events/2007-world-conference/688.html|work=Global Organization Design Society|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref> He then launched the THEE Online Project in 2008. The interactive website that went public in February 2011 makes new and emerging frameworks generally available.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kinston|first=Warren|title=Journey to TOP|url=http://www.thee-online.com/About/default.htm#About WK/7.2 Journey to TOP.htm|publisher=THEE Online Project|accessdate=28 April 2014}}</ref>


==Background==
==Background==
Kinston was born in [[Brisbane]], Queensland, Australia. He was educated at the [[University of Sydney]] where he completed science and medical degrees. He moved to London to work at the [[Maudsley Hospital]] and obtained post-graduate qualifications in psychiatry from the [[University of London]] in 1974 and in psychoanalysis from the London Institute of Psychoanalysis in 1977. <ref>{{cite web|last=Kinston|first=Warren|title=Bio-Data|url=http://www.thee-online.com/About/default.htm#About WK/7.1 CV.htm%3FTocPath%3DAbout%3A%20Warren%20Kinston%7C_____1|publisher=THEE Online Project|accessdate=27 April 2014}}</ref>
Kinston was born in [[Brisbane]], Queensland, Australia. He was educated at the [[University of Sydney]] where he completed science and medical degrees. He moved to London to work at the [[Maudsley Hospital]] and obtained post-graduate qualifications in psychiatry from the [[University of London]] in 1974 and in psychoanalysis from the London Institute of Psychoanalysis in 1977.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kinston|first=Warren|title=Bio-Data|url=http://www.thee-online.com/About/default.htm#About WK/7.1 CV.htm|publisher=THEE Online Project|accessdate=28 April 2014}}</ref>


Working in child psychiatry at [[Great Ormond Street Hospital]] (London), he was part of a small band of innovators that introduced [[family therapy]] and systems practice to the UK.<ref name=Carr>{{cite book|last=Carr|first=Alan|title=Family Therapy: Concepts, Process and Practice|year=2006|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.|location=New York|isbn=0470014547|pages=164}}</ref> He led the development of clinically grounded research methods.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Daniel|first=Gwyn|title="And none of your Laingian Nonsense": My beginnings with family therapy|journal=Context Magazine|date=June 2011|issue=115|pages=34|url=http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1snvt/ContextJune11/resources/34.htm|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref> Within psychoanalysis, Kinston contributed to clarification of narcissism<ref>{{cite book|last=Nathanson|first=Donald L.|title=The Many Faces of Shame|year=1987|publisher=The Guilford Press|location=New York|isbn=0898627052|pages=214–215}}</ref> and repression<ref>{{cite journal|last=Boag|first=Simon|title=Realism, self-deception, & the logical paradox of repression|journal=Theory & Psychology|date=1 January 2007|volume=17|issue=3|pages=421–447|url=http://www.academia.edu/1526501/Realism_Self-Deception_and_the_Logical_Paradox_of_Repression|accessdate=11 October 2012|doi=10.1177/0959354307077290}}</ref> from a practical and clinical standpoint.<ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor (et al)|first=Graeme J.|title=Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness|year=1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=0521778506|pages=89–90|url=http://alexithymiaexchange.multiply.com/journal/item/62/Primal-Repression?&show_interstitial=1&u=%2Fjournal%2Fitem}}</ref>
Working in child psychiatry at [[Great Ormond Street Hospital]] (London), he was part of a small band of innovators that introduced [[family therapy]] and systems practice to the UK.<ref name=Carr>{{cite book|last=Carr|first=Alan|title=Family Therapy: Concepts, Process and Practice|year=2006|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.|location=New York|isbn=0470014547|pages=164}}</ref> He led the development of clinically grounded research methods.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Daniel|first=Gwyn|title="And none of your Laingian Nonsense": My beginnings with family therapy|journal=Context Magazine|date=June 2011|issue=115|pages=34|url=http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1snvt/ContextJune11/resources/34.htm|accessdate=11 October 2012}}</ref> Within psychoanalysis, Kinston contributed to clarification of narcissism<ref>{{cite book|last=Nathanson|first=Donald L.|title=The Many Faces of Shame|year=1987|publisher=The Guilford Press|location=New York|isbn=0898627052|pages=214–215}}</ref> and repression<ref>{{cite journal|last=Boag|first=Simon|title=Realism, self-deception, & the logical paradox of repression|journal=Theory & Psychology|date=1 January 2007|volume=17|issue=3|pages=421–447|url=http://www.academia.edu/1526501/Realism_Self-Deception_and_the_Logical_Paradox_of_Repression|accessdate=11 October 2012|doi=10.1177/0959354307077290}}</ref> from a practical and clinical standpoint.<ref>{{cite book|last=Taylor (et al)|first=Graeme J.|title=Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness|year=1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=0521778506|pages=89–90|url=http://alexithymiaexchange.multiply.com/journal/item/62/Primal-Repression?&show_interstitial=1&u=%2Fjournal%2Fitem}}</ref>

Revision as of 14:52, 28 April 2014

Warren Kinston (born May 16, 1945[citation needed]) is an Australian scientist, doctor, psychoanalyst, management consultant, systems thinker and entrepreneur.

Ethical Design

Kinston pioneered the notion and practice of “ethical design,” in which finding solutions to social and psychological problems requires ‘ingraining values into every action, every thought, every decision, every relationship.’[1]

THEE

The application of ethical design[2] during his career as a consultant led to the development of tools for managers called collectively the Technology of Common Sense. Pursuing this systems thinking in additional areas of personal and social life, led Kinston to develop the Taxonomy of Human Elements in Endeavour (THEE).[3] The topics most comprehensively covered to date are purpose and value including politics,[1] and decision and achievement including many features of management and employment.[2]

The taxonomy architecture was discovered by specifying the universal elements of human activity that can come into consciousness in terms of their function, properties, relationships and dynamics. Structural regularities enable the prediction[citation needed] of as yet unspecified elements, much as occurred with the discovery of the periodic table of chemical elements. Kinston estimates between 5,000 and 10,000 elements or entities could exist within THEE[4] and, as it stands, it is incomplete.

In 2007, Kinston introduced THEE by invitation [5] at the Global Organization Design Conference in Toronto, Canada.[6] He then launched the THEE Online Project in 2008. The interactive website that went public in February 2011 makes new and emerging frameworks generally available.[7]

Background

Kinston was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was educated at the University of Sydney where he completed science and medical degrees. He moved to London to work at the Maudsley Hospital and obtained post-graduate qualifications in psychiatry from the University of London in 1974 and in psychoanalysis from the London Institute of Psychoanalysis in 1977.[8]

Working in child psychiatry at Great Ormond Street Hospital (London), he was part of a small band of innovators that introduced family therapy and systems practice to the UK.[9] He led the development of clinically grounded research methods.[10] Within psychoanalysis, Kinston contributed to clarification of narcissism[11] and repression[12] from a practical and clinical standpoint.[13]

In 1980, Kinston joined the Brunel University’s Institute of Organisation and Social Studies (BIOSS) under its Director, Prof. Elliott Jaques [14] and contributed to the development of Jaques’s levels of work theory.[5] At Brunel, Kinston founded The SIGMA Centre, a research-based consulting firm that worked in various public and private organizations, most notably the National Health Service (NHS).[15]

In 1995, Kinston co-founded with Prof. Mathew Vadas the ASX-listed biotech company, Bionomics Ltd (ASX: BNO) and in 2001, they co-founded the biotech company Cryptome Research Pty Ltd, which listed on the ASX as Cryptome Pharmaceuticals Ltd in 2003. [16]

Publications

  • Pluralism in the organisation of health services research. Social Science and Medicine, 17 (5): 299-313. 1982
  • District Health Organisation. Social Policy and Administration, 18 (3): 229-246. 1984
  • Purposes and the translation of values into action. Systems Research, 3 (3): 147-160. 1986
  • Stronger Nursing Organization (London: Brunel University College, 1987) ISBN 0902215779
  • A Total Framework for Inquiry. Systems Research, 4 (1): 9-26. 1988
  • A Local Revolution. The House Magazine p. 6, June 20, 1988. (with David Wilshire)
  • Rescuing Local Government. County Council Gazette, 81 (2): 50-52. 1988
  • Stronger Political Management in Local Government: A Guide. (London: Brunel University – Political Management Program, 1988) ISBN 0902215841
  • Levels of Work: New applications to management in large organisations. Journal of Applies Systems Analysis, 16:19-33. 1989 (with Ralph Rowbottom)
  • Seven distinctive paths of decision and action. Systems Research, 6 (1): 117-132. 1989 (with Jimmy Algie)
  • Making General Management Work in the National Health Service (London: Brunel University, 1989) with Ralph Rowbottom ISBN 0902215914
  • The role of region in the post-White Paper NHS. Health Services Management, 85 (3): 110-113. 1989
  • Strengthening the Management Culture (London: The Sigma Centre, 1994) ISBN 1874726019
  • Working with Values: Software of the Mind (London: The Sigma Centre, 1995) ISBN 1874726027

References

  1. ^ a b Kinston, Warren (1995). Working with Values: Software of the Mind. London: The Sigma Centre. p. 11. ISBN 1874726027. Cite error: The named reference "Kinston" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Kinston, Warren (1994). Strengthening the Management Culture. London: The Sigma Centre. ISBN 1874726019.
  3. ^ Kinston, Warren. WK/7. Introducing Myself.htm "About Warren Kinston". THEE Online Project. Retrieved 28 April 2014. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  4. ^ Kinston, Warren. THEE/2.2 A Model not a Theory.htm "A Model--not a Theory". THEE Online Project. Retrieved 28 April 2014. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); no-break space character in |url= at position 62 (help)
  5. ^ a b "News Items". Global Organization Design Society. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  6. ^ "Seven-Level Hierarchical Processes (video)". Global Organization Design Society. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  7. ^ Kinston, Warren. WK/7.2 Journey to TOP.htm "Journey to TOP". THEE Online Project. Retrieved 28 April 2014. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  8. ^ Kinston, Warren. WK/7.1 CV.htm "Bio-Data". THEE Online Project. Retrieved 28 April 2014. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  9. ^ Carr, Alan (2006). Family Therapy: Concepts, Process and Practice. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. p. 164. ISBN 0470014547.
  10. ^ Daniel, Gwyn (June 2011). ""And none of your Laingian Nonsense": My beginnings with family therapy". Context Magazine (115): 34. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  11. ^ Nathanson, Donald L. (1987). The Many Faces of Shame. New York: The Guilford Press. pp. 214–215. ISBN 0898627052.
  12. ^ Boag, Simon (1 January 2007). "Realism, self-deception, & the logical paradox of repression". Theory & Psychology. 17 (3): 421–447. doi:10.1177/0959354307077290. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
  13. ^ Taylor , Graeme J.; et al. (1999). Disorders of Affect Regulation: Alexithymia in Medical and Psychiatric Illness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 89–90. ISBN 0521778506. {{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |last= (help)
  14. ^ Christian, Forrest. "Related Articles and Papers". Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  15. ^ Hands, David (2000). Evidence-based organisation design in health care : the contribution of the Health Services Organisation Research Unit at Brunel University. London: Nuffield Trust. ISBN 1902089499.
  16. ^ Scott, Iain. "Cryptome Pharma files for IPO". Australian Life Scientist. Retrieved 24 April 2014.


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