I have very much enjoyed the opportunity to blog with you here for the past two weeks. If you are interested, you can read more about my work here. In this, my last post for this blog series, I want to return again to the theme of parallel evolution in theory and practice across many […]
I had such an overwhelmingly positive experience working with a client yesterday. It is one of those experiences that brings to mind that we are involved in an ongoing shift of thinking about management practices that is truly eye-opening for many people. Perhaps it is a sort of grandiosity that I allow myself to think […]
I had lunch yesterday with my colleague Bob Horn yesterday. I worked with Bob about 8 years ago on a really interesting project called aMap at the HCI Lab at Stanford that employed wall-size interactive displays to render and manipulate argumentation maps. His work is fascinating and his achievements significant. He has received a Lifetime […]
According to Hannah Arendt, politics is a social activity. In “The Human Condition”, for example, she states that the great effects of political action come about “where people are with others and neither for nor against them…”[1]. This highlights the essentially social substrate always present in our experience. Arendt describes political action as being something […]
When I shared some of my views about the Cynefin Framework with Dave Snowden he responded that rather than my preferred term “epistemological pluralism”, he would talk about the Cynefin Framework in terms of “contextual epistemologies”. I think these differences are somewhat semantic in that we both share a view that epistemology, the way we […]
Some time ago I concluded that we have entered a new era, where many theories rooted in reductionism have maximised their limits of usefulness in supporting further innovation. Kuhn’s paradigm shift [1] is once again upon us – not just in an abstract sense, but in the very way we see the world operating around […]
I’ve never written as a guest blogger before. How nice to do something new and I’m grateful to the Cognitive Edge Team for inviting me to participate. You can read more about my work here. My interest in Cognitive Edge theory and practice stems from its interdisciplinary approach of weaving together useful ideas from Complexity […]
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