Allenna Leonard is president of the American Society for Cybernetics, and a Director of Team Syntegrity Inc. of Toronto, Canada. Amongst numerous writings in the systems field, she has contributed a chapter to Stafford Beer’s Beyond Dispute, and co-edited How Many Grapes Went Into the Wine? in 1994.

Recent articles

In a harsh, globalised environment how can viable, mutually beneficial relationships be forged? Allenna Leonard is inspired by the symbiosis of the natural world to offer ten practical ideas.

The market economy and fundamentalist religion each aspire to colonise minds, dominate the public realm, and suppress free debate. Terrorism is only the extreme end of the much wider disaffection that results. The multiple insights of cybernetics and systems thinking are urgently needed to refresh minds, revivify politics, and offer practical ways out of the tunnel of dogma which marketolatry imposes on the world.

Can the creative insights of systems analysis illuminate the motives of the attackers and suggest a western response that is likely to be truly effective?