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The Gratitude Mindset (Why it Matters)

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 143 Views 0 Comments complexity, gratitude, mental health, positive psychology, psychology, strategy

Being grateful makes us feel good and helps us find what important things to focus on when developing a strategy for innovating and moving ahead.

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Not Working vs Wrong

July 24, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 434 Views 0 Comments complexity, decision making, goals, learning, organizational change, organizational development, organizational learning, organizational psychology, psychology, social psychology, systems thinking

Change is hard because our identities often depend on us being right, even when we are not. Understanding the myths we hold to can be a means to get past this and make real change and make it stick.

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Learning Myths & The Learner

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 461 Views 0 Comments design thinking, education, engagement, learning, psychology

The idea that we have a learning ‘style’ is a myth; let’s stop perpetuating it and engage learners instead. While

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Shifting Your Innovation Goals & Goalposts

July 10, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 719 Views 1 Comment Geoff Wilson, goal setting, goals, ideas, innovation, leadership, MyFortay, psychology, Simon Sinek, video

What if the best way to accomplish a goal was to not have one or to keep it changing? That’s

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Noticing and the Art of Paying Attention

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 381 Views 0 Comments attention, complexity, evaluation, innovation, mindfulness, noticing, perception, psychology, selective attention

Innovation is about seeing things differently. This article looks at how our perceptions of the world can influence what we see and what we miss and how evaluation can help with it all.

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Seasons and the Sun: Seeing and Experiencing Change

June 25, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 310 Views 0 Comments Calgary, china, complexity, covid-19, nature, performance, psychology, religion, ritual, stonehenge, strategy, time, United Kingdom, United States

Thinking in ‘seasons’ allows us to see systems at play that are disguised in the every day. To every thing

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Leadership Skills for Complex Times

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 338 Views 0 Comments complexity, design thinking, jennifer garvey berger, language, leadership, psychology, Randall K. Stutman, systems thinking

Leadership through complexity requires strategies that match our situation: they are flexible, diverse, and creative. “He had a tremendous propensity

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Signals and Actions

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 764 Views 1 Comment behaviour change, evaluation, intention, psychology, racism, social change

Signals of intent can be misleading indicators of future action and may lead away from our desired change. They are

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Here to There: Navigating Through the Unknown

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 699 Views change, developmental design, developmental evaluation, innovation, learning, mental models, principle-focused evaluation, social change, systems thinking, visionary evaluation

VIsionary evaluation is about putting data to our principles and actions and seeing where we’ve come from and where we’re going at the same time. This article explores what it is and what we need to do.