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Doing Nothing: An Innovation Paradox

July 14, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 402 Views 0 Comments chaos, complexity, decision making, design, innovation, Michael Quinn Patton, principles, principles-focused evaluation, strategy, systems, systems thinking, Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, transformation

Strategy in chaos is like whitewater rafting — it needs stillness among the motion. Sometimes the best transformation and boldest action is doing nothing.

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Shifting Your Innovation Goals & Goalposts

July 10, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 695 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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Leadership Skills for Complex Times

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 334 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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Strangling Innovation

October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 630 Views behavioural economics, design, ecosystem, marketing, Rory Sutherland, service design

Not even the best innovation team can escape bad systems. Without looking at your systems, innovation might just get suffocated.

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Failure and Learning

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 615 Views complexity, evaluation, innovation, learning, measurement, net promoter score, research

Failure deals in absolutes while learning is about discovering possibility. Focusing on the former often leads us to miss the

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Presenting Tips for the Anxious Innovator

October 8, 2019October 2, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 648 Views anxiety, communication, knowledge translation, positive psychology, presentation, psychology, tools

The opportunity to teach is a chance to influence others. Here’s some tips and tricks to make that moment better.

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An Organizing Framework for Innovation

September 10, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 806 Views culture of innovation, design, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, innovation, innovation ecosystem, strategic foresight, strategy, systems thinking

Innovation requires the right organizing, not just skill and vision. This article explores what that means in practice.

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Strategy: Myths, fantasies, and reality

August 7, 2018August 15, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 523 Views adaptive strategy, business, complexity, organizations, strategic intent, strategy

A defining feature of sustained excellence in any enterprise is a good strategy — a vision and plan linked to

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How do we sit with time?

May 16, 2018August 15, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 636 Views behaviour change, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, knowledge translation, learning, organizational development, psychology, time

Organizational transformation efforts from culture change to developmental evaluation all depend on one ingredient that is rarely discussed: time. How

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