Security Design Techniques, Methods and Facilitation Fundamentals: Using DIXIT Cards for Divergence Acceleration!

Ignoring the contradictory nature of organisations may be dysfunctional for managers and researchers. Many theories do not consider contradictory elements- they simply assume away one of the competing elements. This may lead to dysfunction… Theories of congruence have an order bias. Synthesis is a desirable but not required in organisations. Achieving a perfect fit or congruence may lead to a tensionless state in which the system becomes static. Paradox need not be always resolved. Paradoxes are paradoxical… they are both confusing and understandable, common and surprising.

- Colin Clarke-Hill, Huaning Li & Barry Davies[1]

Planning is associated with convergent knowledge in that it involves a reasoned approach to excluding other possible courses of action.

- Christopher Paparone[2]

The shock and strangeness of confronting a different cultural paradigm reveals the exotic chaos of order when we reach outside the conventions and codes that define western perceptions of the cosmos…. It is out of this shock, confusion and chaos that a new paradigm of understanding can be allowed to gradually emerge.

- Robert Chia[3]

This is the first part of a new Medium series where I present techniques, methods and facilitation fundamentals for systemic design with security forces on the wicked topics of defense…