The basic Estuarine Framework has not changed significantly since last year’s publication; the vulnerable zone has been renamed volatile, but that is it for the base framework, which is a testament to its utility. What has changed are the options to generate items for the framework, the action types have extended, and the need to […]
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 […]
I am recently back from “the road”, and as others might have found, you learn a lot in those circumstances. Especially when the road includes almost daily workshops, sessions, meetings, and seminars with your boss…who happens to be Dave Snowden…who happens to be working out some key things right now. So before everything slips […]
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 […]
Several interactions over social media have left me somewhat frustrated by the inability of several people who could know better (I exclude the odd attention-seeking troll from this) to understand one of the key aspects of complexity namely managing the nature of a system to encourage emergence. The minute you imply any intentionality they immediately […]
I moved over from updating Cynefin on St David’s Day each year to updating the third framework, namely Estuarine Mapping. That was in two parts and you can trace back the whole thread in the links provided there. I’ve been developing this approach largely in public which is an interesting and, in the main, […]
In yesterday’s post, I provided a basic update on where Estuarine mapping is in terms of method. I’d also strongly recommend people to read Tom Kerwin’s account of an Estuarine Mapping exercise we ran together a few weeks ago – not just for the account but also for what he did to integrate the […]
It’s been my practice for some years to use St David’s Day as a chance to update the latest version of Cynefin. Last year was no exception but in the second of two posts I indicated that 2023 would see this extend to other frameworks within the Cynefin ecosystem. The reason was that with the […]
For the first substantive post in this series, I wanted to pick up one of the more controversial elements of human systems namely the pervasive nature of religious ideas/ideology; which is not the same thing as a formal religion. There are arguments in evolutionary psychology (I’ll try and find the paper and reference it later) […]
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