Double Disappointment and Double Solution (by Dialectical Systems Theory and Sustainable Socially Responsible Society Model)

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AbstractIn my young times I came across two professional disappointments: my professors of economics and business spoke about the desired goals of human activities and about the hierarchy of subordination, instead of well-grounded goals and interdisciplinary cooperation in process-steps/succession hierarchy and interdependence. Then I learned to know systems theory and my second disappointment was its prevailing limitation to using the word system instead of the word denoting what was covered under the word system, more concretely, e.g. house, hospital, mister So and So, electrical installation, market place, social order, method, etc. My first solution was my Dialectical Systems Theory as a methodology of systemic, i.e. as holistic as possible and necessary, called requisitely holistic, behavior. My second solution was using my Dialectical Systems Theory for my perception of the Social Responsibility concept, leading to the sustainable socially responsible society model, i.e. as a non-technological innovation process aimed at humankind’s search for the way out from the global socio-economic crisis caused by the globally prevailing neoliberalism’s monopolies destroying both market and democracy and natural precondition of humankind’s survival, to the benefit of a very small percentage of the current humankind. MOTTO: Thinking is the most important human behavior (De Bono (2005 & 2006) Šest klobukov razmišljanja.(in Slovene; Six Thinking Hats).Ljubljana: New Moment (In: New Moment, 28, all-journal issue)(Original ‘Six Thinking Hats’ published in 1985; new Slovene publication in 2021) ). Let us make things as simple as possible, but no more (Wikipedia on Einstein). The General Systems Theory was created against over-specialization (Bertalanffy (1968, edition 1979): General Systems Theory. Foundations, Development, Applications. Revised Edition. Sixth Printing. Braziller, New York.): VII). Cybernetics resulted from interdisciplinary creative cooperation of Norbert Wiener (Wikipedia on Norbert Wiener). Both Bertalanffy (philosophy, arts history, theoretical biology) and Wiener (mathematics, philosophy, zoology) were interdisciplinary personalities, others need teams in creative interdisciplinary cooperative work, to follow them. Hence, systems theory, systemic thinking and systemic behavior cover, like bridges, areas left un-covered by other/usual sciences and practices, in order to help humans to overcome the lack of holism of approach and wholeness of outcomes, in order to resolve resulting failures, reaching all way to world wars and destroyed natural preconditions and conditions of humankind’s survival. Who tries, may lose; who does not try, has lost already.KeywordsDialectical Systems TheoryEthic of interdependenceGoalsISO 26000Systemic behaviorRequisite holismSocial responsibilitySustainable socially responsible society