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Dave Snowden
Too many moons ago I came up with the Children’s Party Story as a means to understand the core Cynefin domains of Chaos, Complex & Order and it is still the best teaching story I have created. There is a professional video recorded in a studio in Adelaide, in which I was 35kg heavier and […]
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I’ve always lived in a house ruled by cats, independent creators of their own existence whose essence is so well summarised in my favourite of Kipling’s Just So Stories, namely The cat that walked by himself.  I’ve always opposed collars and other attempts to make cats into dogs as summarised in this (successful)  campaign to […]
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Dave Snowden
Some readers will know that I started my commercial career in the personnel department of an international survey company.   I’d come off a difficult period of the best part of a year without a job, the experience of which never really leaves you.  The department was then run by a retired army major with […]
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A week ago I put up what I thought would be a provocative post on LinkedIn on the subject of psychometric tests.  It’s a subject I have addressed before.   Once with a slight tongue-in-cheek suggestion that Tom Lehrer’s Poisoning Pigeons in the Park provided a role model in how to treat the cult end […]
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The picture on the left was taken on 18th June 2018 when I collected my new bike from the Bike Whisperer in Newbury.  Scherrit had previously tuned my Audax and Cyclocross bikes to good effect and as we talked I ended up with him designing a replacement for the Audax.  That had been put together […]
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Yesterday in,  the space between exercises I was chatting with a research nurse about patient record keeping.  In the process of that discussion, we started to talk about effective communication about a patient’s condition and she made the point that a simple story can convey a lot of meaning, and that meaning is often lost […]
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Yesterday I established the basis for knowledge mapping, namely to ask a meaningful question in a meaningful context.  I promised that I would place that into a wider programme which, in the language of our new Hexi approach, is called an assembly.  Astute readers may also have spotted a developing theme in both the banner […]
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Dave Snowden
One of my brighter ideas in recent times was the formalisation of the Entangled Trios approach and associated methods.  It wasn’t a new idea, the origins trace back to my early work in Knowledge Management and the second major article using the five-domain version of Cynefin:  Complex Acts of Knowing.  That paper focused on the […]
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In tackling the shibboleths of mindset and mental models in my last post as I was at pains to make it clear that I understand and appreciated why the words and associated concepts had come into common use; but it was time to move on given greater understanding and knowledge.  I was also concerned with […]
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