What change and pool diving have in common
Change is much like taking a dive off the high diving board. It’s risks and perceptions are never what you think until you get to the top of the diving board, look down, and jump.
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psychology
Getting Out of Our Heads
Too much change psychology focuses on the way we think. Sometimes creating change requires we get out of our heads.
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Putting our organizations on the couch
Creating change through rational planning only gets us halfway there. Looking inward will take us the rest of the journey.
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Conflicted Interests
Shifting outcomes requires shifts in our thinking about what works The science journal Nature recently published a thought piece looking
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The Developmental Psychology of Organizations
Every living thing has a journey that starts somewhere and ends eventually. Our ability to see this, understand it, and
Read moreElevating Design & Design Thinking
Design thinking has brought the language of design into popular discourse across different fields, but it’s failings threaten to
Read moreComplex problems and social learning
Adaptation, evolution, innovation, and growth all require that we gain new knowledge and apply it to our circumstances, or learn.
Read moreThe logic of a $1000 iPhone
Today Apple is expected to release a new series of iPhone handsets with the base price for one set at
Read moreExploding goals and their myths
Goal-directed language guides much of our social policy, investment and quests for innovation without much thought of what that means
Read moreSmart goals or better systems?
If you’re working toward some sort of collective goals — as an organization, network or even as an individual —
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