I taught the first day of of the Cynefin and Sense-making course here in Zurich without slides. I’m breaking the pattern entrainment of the slides I used and modified for the last two years by finding different ways to explain and expand on some of the consequences of thinking from a complexity perspective. One […]
12: Avoiding uncertainty and anti-intellectualism It’s the twelfth day of this series and time to draw it to a close. A final post needs to create some sense of completion, either by some summary statement or by building to a climax. In a sense I am taking both options by looking at the willingness […]
10: Trying to get to a single causal line of reasoning The picture is from Avebury just around the corner from where I live. Known locally as the Tolkein Tree it is a distinctive landmark on the walk around Avebury circle. My own children spent many a happy hour playing amidst the exposed root systems […]
8: Issues of evidence and judgement & a false dichotomy The phrase evidence based decision making is commonly touted and commonly misconstrued in government and industry alike. In part this comes from an incomplete understanding of causality which seems to stem from a desire for certainty of outcome. The concept of evidence here seems to […]
A rather complex set of circumstances involving the family, two cars and the need for daughter to visit aunt; all combined to precipitate me into a Slough hotel last night after seeing Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera at the ROH. One should never see Verdi immediately after the ecstasy of Wagner and one should avoid the Slough […]
To my final post on scaling, at least for the moment as it's a big and developing subject. There is a tendency in some complexity writing to simply abandon the whole question of management to vague and idealistic statements about self-organising and natural systems. The simple fact is that choosing not to do something is […]
After a weekend of internal stuff today was all about client meetings while Michael taught the foundations course. The government of Nova Scotia are one of our long time users and have a project license for SenseMaker®. They have done a series of interesting projects, the latest on attitudes to climate change and domestic violence. […]
2012 was one of those years that I will remember for some time. Not least for avoiding the Mayan apocalypse and the prophesied return of the green feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl to restore peace and harmony. Having been a subcontractor to someone who took the idea seriously back in the early days of Cognitive Edge, […]
I promised to pick up from my philosophical musings of yesterday with a more practical working out of the use of virtue as a means to create a sense of purpose or direction within a complex system. It is worth remembering that the need here is to deal with the present; with the decisions that […]
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