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Emotional Honesty in Designing Change

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 169 Views 0 Comments action, attention, behaviour change, climate change, earth day, emotion, emotional baggage, environment, honesty, hope, mindfulness, organizational psychology, psychological safety, psychology

Innovation is emotional work and it’s time to connect our feelings and thoughts to fuel our change efforts and actions.

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Noticing and the Art of Paying Attention

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 706 Views 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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Behavioural Design, Attention & Change

October 2, 2019October 2, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 899 Views attention, behaviour change, behavioural design, book, change, design, distraction, nir eyal, psychology

How do we design for attention in a distracted world? Nir Eyal has some answers to provide the focus we

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Decoupling creators from their creations

June 1, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 588 Views attention, creativity, creators, evaluation, innovation, innovation ecosystem, learning, organizational mindfulness, social innovation, social media

The world is transformed by creators — the artists, the innovators, the leaders — and their creations are what propel change

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Time. Care. Attention.

May 17, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 814 Views attention, care, compassion, craft, developmental evaluation, flourishing, innovation, learning, mindfulness, time

A read through a typical management or personal improvement feed will reveal near infinite recommendations for steps you can take

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A Beautiful Idea

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 765 Views attention, attractor, beauty, behaviour change, book, complexity, creativity, creators, design, emergence, organizational aesthetics, organizational psychology, path dependence, research, Steven De Groot

Is what you do, where you work, or how you organize, beautiful? Among the many words used to describe our

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Developmental Evaluation and Mindfulness

January 20, 2014December 3, 2018 Cameron D. Norman 1273 Views attention, CENSE Research + Design, complexity, decision making, developmental evaluation, education, emergence, evaluability assessment, health, innovation, Karl Weick, learning organization, metacognition, mindfulness, organizational mindfulness, sensemaking, social innovation

Developmental evaluation is focused on real-time decision making for programs operating in complex, changing conditions, which can tax the attentional

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"I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it."- Bea Arthur (born this day in 1922) 21 hours ago
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." —Martin Luther King Jr. 21 hours ago
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