Referring to the domain of disorder, Dave and Cynthia argue that “often in a group (…) individuals compete to interpret the central space on the basis of their preference for action. (…) The stronger the importance of the issue, the more people seem to pull it towards the domain where they feel most empowered by […]
Early this year, acknowledging our personal share of responsibility for the bad fiscal situation, the Greeks were ready to begin our own transformation journey, personal and collective. Six months later, we are witnessing (in the name of “rescuing the country”) a huge transmutation experiment. A violent attempt to impose the ‘right’ way to relate, to […]
As I was saying yesterday, during the last five years, I have used the Cynefin model as the basic template to introduce complexity to public officers, so they could better understand the background of issues related to decision making under uncertainty, organizational culture and higher-order change. One common thing in those cases was that we […]
Hi, I am Stefanos Michiotis. I live nearby Athens, Greece and work as an independent trainer and consultant. For the next two weeks I‘ll try to share with you my experience from using the Cynefin model and other complex methods in training. But first, let me tell you my personal narrative about the wider context […]
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