In this final, for the moment, post on creating aporia I want to focus on the ways in which physical activity and the wider environment can create the conditions to think differently and to find novel solutions in times of perplexity and confusion. In some ways it is the most important section given that we […]
I think a lot of people don’t realise how novel the complexity stuff still and how threatening (needlessly) it is to established management practice. Those of us engaged in taking a more humane perspective a decade or so ago were a merry band of mavericks from many different backgrounds. I still treasure the various meetings […]
Yesterday’s opening post in this series provided a background to the initial sources and contacts I used as I started to take complex adaptive systems as the major focus, in effect pushing knowledge management into the background and using narrative as a tool to understand the nature of complexity in human systems. Cynefin shifted into […]
Redux came over into English in the 17th Century as one of those rare postpositive adjectives in English to mean brought back, or the more active bringing back. The postpositive form landed itself to literally use which often contains a sense of things being right again in consequence; think of Trollope’s Phineas Redux if you […]
In my previous two posts I set the context for understanding the Deleuzian concept of the title to understand how we can use ideas of flow and leakage to break entrained patterns. I established (or asserted if you want) three basic principles of sensemaking “under conditions of potential or actual entrainment” The first two of […]
Problems of diversity, inclusion and associated conflict pervade modern society. To be honest they always did but we are more aware of them. Also, those excluded from power, subjected to epistemic injustice, prejudice, and often violence are standing up, challenging orthodoxies, and asking difficult questions. At the same time previous dominant groups can no longer […]
Just as a warning, this is a rather rambling post. The overall theme is about constraints and is another theme I will be posting about over the next month or so. You might want to do a search on ‘Mending Walls’ both on this blog and the wider internet if you want more of the […]
I don’t know if I displaying a keen anticipatory capability in focusing on Disorder, the all too often ignored fifth domain of Cynefin, in this annual update series; if so it was unconscious. But the current Covid-19 crisis has produced multiple examples of the criticality of the domain ranging from the deadly seriousness of triage […]
In this penultimate post in the current series, I want to look at what you can manage in the complex domain of Cynefin and return to the which domain is X in debate. It is worth remembering the end of the Children’s Party Story: We manage the emergence of beneficial coherence, within attractors, within boundaries. These days I […]
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