Jason Jixuan Hu

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Jason Jixuan Hu, was born in 1957 in Kunming, PRC. Hu holds a Ph.D. from The George Washington University,[1] with a primary focus in Management & Organizations and secondary focus in Philosophy of Social Sciences (1995)[2]; B. Sc. from Heilongjiang Institute of Commerce, China, in Electronic Engineering (1981); and Certified System Engineer of Sino-Japanese Software Developing Center, in System Dynamics Modeling (1985). He came to the USA in 1986 as visiting scholar to study Cybernetics and System Science, back to PRC in 1988 and left PRC after what happened in June 4, 1989 in Tiananmen Square.  He became an American citizen after September 11, 2001. After a diversified career path spanning from research and teaching, entrepreneurship and senior management, training and consulting, he is currently an independent researcher and managing director of WINTOP Organizational Learning Laboratory[3], a consulting-training partnership based on Phoenix, Arizona, USA.[2][4][5]

Interests

Dr. Hu’s inquiries can be classified into three periods: His early work (1982-1993) were social problem-identification oriented because he was overwhelmed by the severe social pathologies in PRC caused by communism as well as by the unhealthy elements of the Chinese traditions[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. His inquiry about what’s wrong in the society of China started at his teen age during the notorious “cultural revolution” stirred up by Mao.  His mid-term work (1993-2008) were social-solution oriented, focusing on a new communication theory[13], large-scale education model[14], and grassroot participation model, and his scope of concern expanded from the country of China to the country of the United States, and to the sustainability issues of the whole planet.

Latest Work

Dr. Hu’s latest work (2009-current) is to establish a theory of the evolution of our civilization based on a synthesis of the cultural gene hypothesis with the multi-layer self-organization theory, which is his extension of classic (single-step) self-organization theories (e.g. of Ashby, Von Foerster, Prigogine & Haken.) This theory provides a new perspective to understand the history, the current status and the possible futures of the human civilization, suggesting priorities for and calling for attentions of action leaders at various levels in our societies[15][16][17].  Dr. Hu has developed a four-dimensional system thinking framework which was applied to comparative study of organizational dynamics[18], to an expansion of Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety[19], and to a new understanding of second-order cybernetics and second-order science.    

Dr. Hu’s current ongoing projects includes the following:

  1. Project Polaris for Civilization: developing Instrument to measure Civilization Development Index for nations, publishing Civilization Evolution Theory, identifying current Major Threats to Civilization, establishing Association of Butterfly-effect Communicators.  
  2. Project for System Science Curriculum Development: A team effort of 30+ colleagues from 15 countries endorsed and supported by International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, World Complexity Science Academy, and World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics.
  3. The 2018 Linz-Conversation held by International Federation for Systems Research of Topics on Organizational Functions of Religions, Ideologies and Science as System of Stories on a Spectrum from Emotionality to Rationality, and Linkages among Three Threads of Evolutions – of Civilization, of Science, and of Cybernetics.  
  4. Project proposal for Elon Musk’s Global Learning XPRIZE: Scalable Teaching Training Operation for Revolutionizing Education in Developing Countries

Professional Life

Dr. Hu is a life time member of American Society for Cybernetics[20] (external link), and a member of International Society for the System Sciences (external link). 

Personal Life

In his spare time, he is a learning photographer, entry-level composer/pianist and blogger. He has traveled and exposed to cultures in 30+ countries and studied 9 major religions. His teaching/training/consulting experiences involve organizations in U.S., China, Hong Kong, Austria, Japan and Thailand.  He speaks Mandurian and English proficiently, with limited conversational capacity in German and Japanese.  He is divorced in 2001 and lived with his life-partner Wenjun Du since 2003. 

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