My post of yesterday put forward the position that while the nature of the system acts as both a constraint and as an enabler of what is possible, individuals can and do make a difference. The fact that there have been few if any human societies that didn’t have some form of leadership should tell […]
So it’s the end of a long day and I am getting irritated listing to a fireside chat on YouTube which includes the author of one of the five worst books that attempt to popularise complexity. One of these days, and soon, I may publish that list. Said idiot is playing the game of trying […]
May years ago now I left a job as Development Accountant at one of the Hunting Group Companies to enter the field of Decision Support Consultancy at a company called Datasolve, which became DataSciences and which was then bought by IBM. I’d never been a consultant and never imagined myself as a salesperson. After charity […]
Today’s post is a development of yesterday’s and I plan to look at the various overlapping aspects of a situation that Cynefin seeks to handle. I am still with that wider theme of navigating through hazardous waters, hence the banner picture. Firstly I need to state, and do so without any shame or apology, that […]
Now I want to make it very clear up front that I know this doesn’t work as drawn, it’s an exploration of some key aspects of Cynefin before I write something more substantial. I realised the other day that I really need to consolidate the various blog posts, in particular, the St David’s Day updates […]
This post continues an earlier series on the theme of Leadership and is the third post in that series. Links to the first two posts can be found in my post of yesterday. Here I want to outline a previous IBM project which encompassed many of the principles of descriptive self-awareness in leadership development. The […]
On this day last year I was in Reading trying to give a masterclass without the ability to write or co-ordinate my brain to my fingers. Something that had started some five days earlier but I had foolishly driven to North Wales for a retreat and then down to Reading for the Masterclass. By Monday […]
My old headmaster, of fond memory, was too find of appealing for harmony at school assemblies. I think he wanted everything to be like the choir in the banner picture. The last of a generation who lived uncomfortably through the transition of a Grammar School to a Comprehensive, he maintained a teaching schedule and could […]
Two days ago (apologies for skipping a day) I said that I would pick up on the role of archetypes in narrative work. I wrote a two-part article for ECO on the subject, featuring the work of Sonja and others in South Africa (where the technique was developed). The article hasn’t moved over to our […]
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