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Hausken R: What is This Problem Designed
to Solve

What is This Problem Designed to Solve

The Win-Win Collection

Why do so many human systems produce outcomes that almost nobody consciously wants? Governments become remote from the people they serve. Medicine can lose sight of health. Education rewards compliance more readily than curiosity. Money concentrates, information fragments, technology accelerates-and ordinary people are left trying to become better versions of themselves inside structures that continually pull them in the opposite direction.

The Solution to Almost Everything begins with a deceptively simple proposition: many of the crises we treat as separate problems are expressions of the same underlying pattern. We have designed too much of human civilisation around win-lose relationships-competition without sufficient cooperation, power without adequate feedback, extraction without regeneration and short-term gain without responsibility for what comes next. The problem is not merely that some people behave badly. It is that systems shape behaviour, reward certain choices and quietly make other choices difficult.

Drawing on systems thinking, lived experience, relationship work and a lifetime of noticing what happens when people do not fit neatly inside established structures, Frances Amaroux asks the reader to look beneath events to their architecture. Nature offers the central clue. Living systems compete locally, but endure through relationship, reciprocity, feedback and cooperation. Human beings did not invent interdependence; we arrived inside it. The question is whether the systems we created can be redesigned to reflect it.

The book develops the distinction between win-win as a pleasant intention and win-win as a design discipline. It explores the movement from domination towards partnership; the developmental insights of Spiral Dynamics; dependence, independence and interdependence; the limits of self-help; the role of feedback, friction, force and discernment; and the reasons healthy systems decay. It does not pretend that conflict, malice or incompatible needs can be wished away. Instead, it asks what structures help imperfect human beings create better outcomes without requiring everyone to become enlightened first.

The final section turns from diagnosis to possibility. It explores why new civilisations often begin at the edges, what a win-win human looks like inside an imperfect world, and how post-scarcity technologies might liberate humanity-or deepen control-depending on the systems into which they are placed. 

Rather than presenting a utopian blueprint, the book offers principles for building institutions that can learn, correct themselves and remain in relationship with the life they affect. Accessible, candid and occasionally irreverent, its central invitation is to stop asking only how to fix each failing part-and begin asking what kind of relationships our systems are designed to produce.

Rewiring Our World for Mutual Thriving

The Solution to Almost Everything

In Conditional Reality, Tiber Knoxx reveals a powerful truth: outcomes are not driven by effort or intention-but by conditions. Through a sharp, systems-based perspective, this book explores how stability is created, why systems fail, and how unseen factors shape success.

Applying real-world experience with deep analysis, Knoxx challenges conventional thinking and offers a new framework for understanding performance, decision-making, and control.

Because in the end, if the conditions aren't right-the outcome never stood a chance

Why Outcomes Don't Exist Without Structure

Conditional Reality

Contemporary Issues in Family Business Entrepreneurship

The third volume of the 
 Contemporary Issues in Family Business Entrepreneurship
 series addresses how family businesses respond to and are shaped by unpredictable and highly complex contexts. As societies and markets move beyond the stable paradigms of the past, family enterprises face new types of uncertainty — driven by technological disruption, geopolitical shifts, environmental crises, and social transformation. These dynamics not only challenge strategic decision-making but also test the very structure, continuity, and identity of family-run firms. While resilience and transformation were the key themes of previous volumes, this edition focuses on how complexity and disorder unfold in real-world family business settings — and how such firms can adapt without losing their core values and long-term orientation. Drawing on systems theory, complexity science, organizational behavior, and entrepreneurship research, the volume provides a multi-dimensional understanding of how family businesses can manage, embrace, and even thrive in unpredictability. Contributions include theoretical, conceptual, and empirical chapters addressing topics such as succession, emotional dynamics, strategic leadership, resilience, innovation, and organizational transformation. In addition to academic perspectives, practitioner-oriented insights and case studies will enhance the practical relevance of this book.

Managing Complexity and Disorder

Family Business Dynamics in Unpredictable Contexts

Unapologetic is a bold, incisive, and deeply validating look at what it means to lead as a woman in workplaces still shaped by male¿centric norms. Drawing on three decades in aviation, energy, and industrial operations, the author dismantles the myth of the "neutral" workplace and names the forces that quietly shape women's careers: invisible labour, biased leadership standards, corporate gaslighting, and the emotional load they're expected to carry.
With a sharp, conversational voice, the book reassures women that they are not the problem-the system is-and offers practical tools to lead without shrinking, over-functioning, or apologizing. Each chapter pairs insight with actionable guidance, including scripts, boundary¿setting strategies, and punchy callouts that capture the lived experience of being "the only," "the first," or the one expected to hold everything together.
The structure moves from naming the system, to navigating it, to leading beyond it. Topics include visibility without self¿promotion, saying no as a leadership act, securing sponsorship, surviving layoffs, and leading with empathy without becoming everyone's therapist.
Written for women in mid¿career and beyond-especially those in male¿dominated or traditional environments who are relied on, underestimated, and increasingly unwilling to contort themselves to fit outdated norms-Unapologetic offers both validation and a path forward. It speaks directly to those who see the patterns clearly, want to lead with authority without self¿sacrifice, and rarely see themselves reflected in leadership narratives, including under-represented women.
At its core, this is a rallying cry, a toolkit, and a reframing of power-designed to help women lead with more clarity, more courage, and zero apology.

A New Model of Leadership for Women Who Refuse to Shrink

Unapologetic

The Balance Cube gives executives a field¿tested system to diagnose organizational maturity, align strategy with execution, and design interventions that endure. The framework integrates systems thinking, maturity models, and portfolio decision rules into an executive¿ready toolkit with assessments, grids, and visual diagnostics. Readers learn to visualize capital strengths and gaps, trace root¿cause cascades, and orchestrate change across time horizons. Backed by research and case experience, the book provides step¿by¿step tools, role¿specific playbooks, and implementation checklists to reduce transformation fatigue and build resilient performance.

Practitioner's Guide

The Balance Cube

Are you tired of feeling invisible in the workplace, navigating office politics, and hiding your authentic self just to get by? The Corporate Mute is the unfiltered story of Ebony-a driven yet exhausted manager in the health-care industry-who takes you behind the corporate mask. From surviving toxic personalities and finessing boardroom chaos, to facing personal fears and embracing transformation, Ebony's journey spotlights the real struggles of women, especially women of color, in America's corporate landscape.

Told in candid, humorous, and heartfelt vignettes, The Corporate Mute dives deep into the silent battles fought by women striving for respect, authenticity, and success, even as office culture demands conformity. With each chapter, discover a cast of relatable workplace personalities-Ms. Brain Fog, Ms. Lowball, Ms. Searching, Ms. Secretary, Ms. Compliment, Ms. No-Degree, Ms. People-Pleaser, Ms. Event Planner, and Ms. Christian-all reflecting the personalities and challenges faced in real offices everywhere. Through adversity and triumph, Ebony emerges not just as a survivor, but as a mentor and a catalyst for change.

You'll laugh, sigh, and be deeply moved as you find solidarity and empowerment in this book's unique blend of corporate satire, personal growth, and professional wisdom. The Corporate Mute is your permission slip to pursue authenticity, advocate for yourself, and redefine success in your own terms. Perfect for anyone who's ever felt like a silent observer or an outsider, this is the must-read that will leave you inspired and ready to speak up.

Ready to break your silence? Pick up The Corporate Mute and join a community dedicated to thriving-together-at work and beyond.

Disclaimer: This book is a work of fiction inspired by real-life experiences. Any resemblance to actual persons or organizations is coincidental. The views expressed are solely those of the author and do not reflect those of any current or former employer or organization.

The Corporate Mute

How AI and Sustainability Are Redefining Work and Education

Rethinking Business for a World in Transition

An introduction to applying systems thinking in complex organizational contexts.Systems Thinking for Business and Management introduces postgraduate and MBA students to systems thinking as a practical and analytical approach for understanding and addressing complex business challenges. Written by Agnessa Spanellis, Umit S Bititci and Melissa Marques-McEwan, this textbook blends theoretical foundations with applied insight to help students think holistically about organizations and their environments.Structured in four parts, this book explores the fundamentals of systems thinking, models and methods for hard and soft systems, the dynamics of complexity and change, and forward-looking approaches to future systems. This fully updated edition includes new chapters on boundary setting and gamification, alongside expanded global real-world examples that demonstrate how systems thinking can be used to analyse organizations and design effective, sustainable solutions.This textbook includes: - Clear explanations of core systems thinking concepts and boundaries - Coverage of modelling and analysis methods for hard and soft systems - Insight into systems complexity and organizational change - Reflective and team-based exercises supported by global real-world examples - Online resources including lecturer slides and demonstration videosSystems Thinking for Business and Management equips postgraduate students with the tools and mindset to address complexity and design more effective organizational solutions.

Principles and Practice

Systems Thinking for Business and Management

The What Works Code reveals the core principles that drive outcomes in every area of life. Built on decades of scientific inquiry, systems thinking, and real¿world application, this book presents a clear and practical framework for understanding how the universe operates and how consciousness and intention influence what happens next. Instead of offering motivation or abstract ideas, it delivers a results¿focused, evidence¿based method for creating outcomes that are consistent and repeatable.At the center of this work is a powerful idea: the universe is structured by discoverable principles that support life, order, and possibility. Through the Anthropic Principle, consciousness research, and emerging models such as the Information Field, the book challenges outdated assumptions and offers a more integrated and participatory way to understand reality. It provides tools for separating perception from knowledge, aligning action with principle, and decoding the patterns that shape results.The What Works Code invites readers to experiment. It encourages direct application of the principles and the generation of personal evidence. For anyone seeking clarity, capability, and a deeper understanding of why things work and how to make them work better, this book offers a practical and transformative path.
This is not motivational hype. It is a testable framework for diagnosing problems, improving decisions, and influencing outcomes in any area of life. With clear explanations, real¿world examples, and tools you can use immediately, The What Works Code helps you move beyond assumptions and work directly with the principles that govern results. The invitation is simple: test the principles, do the work, and prove them for yourself.

The What Works Code

In high-pressure environments, success is rarely determined by bold ideas alone. It is decided in the quiet, often overlooked moments when work is almost complete.

In The Rubber Spatula Economy, Christopher Connolly introduces a powerful framework for understanding how small execution failures compound into rising costs, declining quality, and cultural fatigue. Drawing on years inside healthcare and senior living foodservice operations, Connolly explores how unfinished work-missed follow-ups, partial resets, half-implemented training-quietly erodes margin and trust.
Rather than offering productivity hacks or motivational slogans, this book examines the structural forces that make finishing work fragile under pressure. It reframes consistency, efficiency, and accountability as design outcomes-not personality traits.

Through clear, disciplined prose, Connolly argues that organizations do not fail because people stop caring. They fail because systems make completion expensive.

Practical without being prescriptive, philosophical without being abstract, The Rubber Spatula Economy offers leaders a new way to see where value is leaking-and how to build environments where finishing becomes ordinary again.

For leaders, operators, and educators working in hospitality, healthcare, and other complex service systems, this book provides a language for the invisible work that ultimately decides who lasts.

The Rubber Spatula Economy

'One of the most profound and potentially life-altering encounters I've had' Sophie McBain, Guardian A user's guide to the everyday challenges of living, which looks to philosophy to reframe the way we understand ourselves and our relationships How can we find our own direction and purpose? When life feels too much, is it possible to free ourselves from the concerns that weigh us down? Whether you're in therapy or prefer to find your own way through life's struggles, pioneering therapist Emmy van Deurzen offers a lifeline for rebuilding trust in the world.Beginning to Live is a practical invitation to step back and discover what really matters by considering each of the four key aspects of our experience in turn: physical, social, personal and spiritual.Harnessing over fifty years' experience, this book is filled with wisdom and moving stories that show how to deal with dilemmas and difficulties of every kind, so that even when survival takes all you have, you can rekindle confidence in your own abilities and revitalize your capacity to relate to others. It is not about a quality of personality or character, which you either have or don't have, van Deurzen shows. It is about a way of being, which is available to each of us - enabling us all to find a more engaged way of living that is purposeful, deliberate and buoyant.Your future is a work of art in progress. And it starts here.

The Art of Existential Freedom

Beginning to Live

Why Organizations Lose Coherence - A Biological Framework for Failure, Health and Evolution

The Living Organization

What is This Problem Designed to Solve

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