I’ve never liked the whole-body metaphors that are used by Senge and others in Systems Dynamics, especially as they are framed in Cartesian terms with the brain providing direction. It allows people to be placed in the category of muscles and god help us, the heart. I notice the kidney and spleen are less attractive […]
I promised to complete the decision series before the Twelvetide blog sequence starts up tomorrow so this is it. The first post was written after my keynote at KM World last month talking about the context of decision-making with references to the three main decision-support frameworks within the Cynefin ecosystem. I added a link to […]
This is a follow-up to my earlier post which used the metaphor of navigation to emphasise the importance of context for decision-making. I then summarised the three frameworks that anchor the various Cynefin methods and tools, linking to the relevant blogs and a recent keynote at KM world which summarised all three. I said there […]
So it’s early morning here in Dallas and I’m still in part on UK time. After a one-day delay due to flight cancellation daughter and I finally arrived in Terminal A in the early evening, but her bag went to Terminal C and mine to Terminal D, but at least they arrived! The level of […]
I was searching for my original known-unknown-unknowable matrix for today’s post and, as you do, came across a variation of Liminal Cynefin I used at an event to talk about the whole issue of control within organisations. I think it was one of those slides that I put together at a conference where I […]
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