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An Age of Creation

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 482 Views adaptive strategy, complexity, covid-19, creativity, innovation, panarchy, resilience, Seth Godin

Creativity can come from destruction. There are ways to think about this can can turn the down into something positive.

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Change Stumbling

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 531 Views adaptive strategy, change, design thinking, developmental evaluation, evaluation, Judo, motivation, movement, new year's resolutions, Parkour, psychology, strategic foresight, willpower

Change-making requires accepting some degree of failure. How we deal with our stumbles determines how or whether we succeed. If

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Practice and Thermostats

December 17, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 953 Views adaptive action, adaptive strategy, benchmark, complexity, evaluation, practice, thermostat

“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” Jean Luc

Strategy: Myths, fantasies, and reality

August 7, 2018August 15, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 591 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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Smart goals or better systems?

July 19, 2017December 1, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1259 Views adaptive strategy, creativity, decision making, evaluation, goals, impact, innovation, measurement, organizational design, organizational development, performance measurement, program evaluation, social change, systems thinking

If you’re working toward some sort of collective goals — as an organization, network or even as an individual —

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Lost together

July 13, 2016July 13, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 458 Views adaptive strategy, attractor, backbone organization, behaviour change, change, collective impact, complexity, flashlight, Guiseppe di Lampedusa, innovation, psychology, resilience, risk, risk mitigation, simple rules, social innovation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, strategy, streetlight effect

Doing new things to create social value means going into the great unknown, yet our fear of being lost need

Acting on Failure or Failure to Act?

April 8, 2014 Cameron D. Norman 549 Views Acumen Fund, adaptive strategy, Amazon, Anders Ericsson, Apple, Ashoka, Cognitive Edge, complexity, developmental evaluation, evaluation, failure, Harvard Business Review, innovation, learning, Malcolm Gladwell, mindfulness, organizational change, organizational learning, social innovation, strategy

Who would have thought that failure would be held up as something to be desired just a few years ago?

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