I thoroughly enjoyed the Cynefin Seminar yesterday. As we say in Australia, “Do yourself a favor” – click through to that link and see if it is scheduled in your area soon. Dave Snowden will challenge you to think about things differently, and has a remarkable capacity to entertain while doing it. Not surprising, I [...]
… waning paradigms
November 7, 2011 by 1 Comment
The previous posts in this series have explored Charles Handy’s use of the Sigmoid curve as a metaphor to explain the ups and downs of our lives, and the secret of jumping to a new wave before it is too late. Sometimes the curve we need to jump from is not just about our lives [...]
… postcards from resilience
October 3, 2011 by 3 Comments
One of the common ‘complaints’ in the resilience space is that we spend too much time talking about the concept and not enough time doing it! Here is a suggestion on how you can get started on the implementation phase. Regular readers may recall earlier mention of the work of Liisa Valikangas, in particular her [...]
… culture, complexity and chaos
March 30, 2011 by Leave a Comment
This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series Culture and ResilienceToday I want to introduce you to the Cynefin Framework – which offers some fascinating insights into the challenges of resilience, and some of the potential reasons why this concept is difficult to define and achieve. It continues the theme in some of [...]
… navigation and experimentation
January 6, 2011 by 1 Comment
This entry is part 5 of 10 in the series Blog ObjectivesIf only we had a GPS for resilience! Today we expect somebody else to tell us where we should be going, how to get there and how we will know when we have arrived. The journey towards resilience is not that simple. This picture [...]
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