Famine follows war. Of course it does. The normal infrastructure of production breaks down or is destroyed. Famine is the third horseman of the apocalypse, and he carries a pair of scales. The scales are not to symbolize equity but inflation… the price of staple foods rockets – worth its weight in gold, you might […]
The second horseman of the apocalypse is War. He rides a red horse. He is of course the natural follower of Pestilence: Pestilence spawns blame, blame with power spawns strife, and strife with a polarized sense of right and wrong, spawns wholesale war. We cannot say that we have wholesale war in the organization I […]
A couple of years ago we were hired to help an organization craft their knowledge management strategy. As part of that we gathered stories about their knowledge sharing culture, and helped them build a set of archetypes that expressed what was currently happening with values, attitudes and behaviours around information and knowledge sharing. The archetypes […]
I’m feeling slightly apocalyptic these days, if “slightly” is a qualification one can use with that extreme term. I suppose you might call it, not exactly a “crisis” of confidence, but certainly a heavy pause. And it’s around when our methods fail. I think we tend towards apocalyptic thinking when things become too difficult, encumbered […]
The Cynefin Company (formerly known as Cognitive Edge) was founded in 2005 by Dave Snowden. We believe in praxis and focus on building methods, tools and capability that apply the wisdom from Complex Adaptive Systems theory and other scientific disciplines in social systems. We are the world leader in developing management approaches (in society, government and industry) that empower organisations to absorb uncertainty, detect weak signals to enable sense-making in complex systems, act on the rich data, create resilience and, ultimately, thrive in a complex world.
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