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Lessons Taught, Learned, Forgotten, and Ignored

January 18, 2022January 18, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 493 Viewsattention, cognition, complexity, complexity theory, covid-19, decision making, design, education, information, information design, information overload, learning, learning design, psychology, systems thinking, time

It’s easy to say a lesson was learned and far more difficult to show it to be true. What can

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Emotional Honesty in Designing Change

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 636 Viewsaction, 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 1082 Viewsattention, 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 1247 Viewsattention, 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 923 Viewsattention, 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 1392 Viewsattention, 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 1365 Viewsattention, 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 1928 Viewsattention, 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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