The Folly of Foresight
Seeing the road ahead isn’t the same as doing something to get there: it’s a lesson that foresight and strategy
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Measuring What Matters: Design Thinking
Measurement can be a trick to deflect us from what matters most, which often can’t be measured. I recently saw
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Five Hundred
Lessons learned from more than a decade of publishing Censemaking.
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Systems of Influence: The Hidden Forces Shaping What We Do
Staying safe is about understanding systems that affect our choices, not just individuals. We need to design systems better if we want real change to take place.
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Space, Place, & Creativity
The way we design our spaces and think about them shape what happens in them. We look at four ideas for how to innovate better in space.
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Beautiful Innovation
Aesthetics and beauty are often dismissed, but they can be enormous catalysts and supports for innovation.
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The Power of Subtle Change
Changing dualisms and either/or thinking into real strategic plans can allow us to make big differences and change with small actions.
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An Opportunity for Systemic Design
When systems are changing everywhere the opportunities to direct some of that change to design the world we want has
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Design for Chaos
Massive change often prompts fear, confusion, and a sense of chaos. How we manage and mitigate this is all about
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Change and Trust
Big change might come from small actions and the trust-building that comes from making those actions visible. Here’s how to make a big difference as one person.
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