I promised yesterday to talk about peer-to-peer knowledge flow. Like yesterday's post this has an ideological aspect as well as a practical one and its nice when they coincide. I argued yesterday that people's own voice should be heard, and their own interpretation of that voice. Removing mediating layers of interpretation reduced the dangers of […]
Foresight week over and I am flying back to the UK today. I will then take a few days off to complete some more sections of the Wye Valley Walk and to return to my agricultural roots with the Welsh Agricultural Show; time for some reflection after a long week of sessions, meals and meetings. […]
So moving on from yesterday we come to the Simple Domain. I normally present this with a Gaping Void cartoon which says Boring and unsexy for a reason which certainly applies here. It's not a bad domain per se, but then that is true of every Cynefin domain. But it is a bit different from […]
One of the thing that was an undercurrent of thinking and discussion in Paris this week was the perennial debate between an extreme form of post modernism and those of those (to nail my colours to the mast) who take a more scientific view. Now I should say that given the people there this […]
There are those who love the language of complexity, but fail to really think it through. Self-organisation and emergence are taken to mean anarchy, when in fact, the essence of a complex system is there constraints of some type are necessary for emergence to happen. Then we get statements like Rules are only guidance and the like which […]
I ran through the various papers on narrative yesterday. I spent longer than I planned on that post as I ended up reading several of them and taking notes. We are looking at the overall training programme at the moment and I am thinking of bringing back a two day course on narrative. I used […]
For the last year I have been experimenting with what we (foolishly) called an advanced course. I’ve taught it now for the best part of a year, both on my own and variously with Michael and Tony. In parallel with that I have been developing the various domain models of Cynefin. It was nice […]
As most people know the meaning of the word Cynefin does not really translate directly into English, its literal translation is habitat or place, but the fuller, more poetical meaning talks of the place of our multiple belongings a sense of being situated in multiple flows over time which profoundly influence what we are, but […]
Earlier this month I picked up a tweet from Clay Spinuzzi of Austin University asking how the Cynefin framework related to the Competing Value Sets (CSV) model. This first saw the light of day in a 1981 paper from Quinn & Rohrbaugh entitled A competing values approach to organizational effectiveness. My initial response was to say that one […]
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