In this second post, I promised to describe the AIMS framework fully, and in doing that, I will also bring in ASHEN in an integrated frame with one of the critical parts of Estuarine Mapping. I first referenced this on the blog in January, but I had already started to use and develop it several […]
So, it is time for my annual update on frameworks and methods. Last year, I switched from the Cynefin Framework to Estuarine mapping. In part because most of the tensions in the Cynefin Framework had been resolved, and it was time to move on. Cynefin is a decision support framework that recognises complexity theory, while […]
There is a little of the old and the new in the imagery I have used in this post. I took the banner picture on an evening walk along the Ridgeway from its official start on Overton Hill. The Ridgeway is one of the ancient pathways in Europe, and it can be walked as far […]
Yesterday, I summarised the material in my pre and post-Christmas blogs and added material on tribalism. One of the key points I was making there is that creating boundaries and conflict between those boundaries is a natural tendency of all species. You can’t eliminate it, so you have to work with it. To that, we […]
I’ve been building a theme based on the idea that making sense through patterns is a natural form of decision-making that has evolved in humans over time. That has also been linked to the difference between abductive and inductive thinking, which has also been critical to the AI series, which I am temporarily interrupting as […]
Last week I ran a rewilding leadership class in London using a new format, namely two half days. It worked well as it gives people an overnight period to absorb what is often disruptive material and allows more social interaction between delegates. It also works better for travel as it turns out a […]
In yesterday’s post, I reminded readers of three critical aspects of a complex adaptive system: (i) it is necessary, but not sufficient, for there to be many elements; (ii) rich, short-range interactions between those elements are necessary and probably sufficient; (iii) the elements are not aware of the whole, necessary but not sufficient. That […]
Over the last month or so, I have been emphasising the need for lots of small projects, either focused on resolving immediate issues or changing the substrate or energy gradient of the system. I’ve also been reminding people of Nonaka’s famous dictum of change needing to be middle-bottom-up. Indeed, the last thing you want to be […]
Abduction is the process of forming an explanatory hypothesis. It is the only logical operation which introduces any new idea; for induction does nothing but determine a value and deduction merely evolves the necessary consequences of a pure hypothesis (Peirce, 1998, p. 216) What seems to be the case is that there are, in nature […]
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