Abstract

Different OR approaches are explored to discuss how individuals may increase their expertise and overrun community barriers for development. These approaches will be discussed from a perspective of unbounded problems with undefined resources. Traditional descriptions for such kind of problems will be presented (i.e. Arrow's impossibility theorem, Hardin's Commons problem, Axelrod's Prisoners' dilemma) and real projects will be expressed through such challenges, to discuss limitations for hard OR approaches. An exploration on Kahneman's ideas will be used as a framework, for a proposal on potential languages, able to structure and support individual performance and collective sustainability