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Getting Out of Our Heads

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 419 Views art, beauty, behaviour change, cognition, cognitive science, H.L. Mencken, health behaviour change, health psychology, John Wenger, Leonardo da Vinci, organizational aesthetics, psychology, sociodrama, strategic foresight, strategy, theory

Too much change psychology focuses on the way we think. Sometimes creating change requires we get out of our heads.

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Exploding goals and their myths

July 20, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 178 Views beauty, behaviour change, design, goals, health behaviour change, organizational change, organizational psychology, organizations, psychology, science, self-determination theory, social science

Goal-directed language guides much of our social policy, investment and quests for innovation without much thought of what that means

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A Beautiful Idea

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 178 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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Seeking simplicity among complexity? Go Dutch!

April 7, 2017April 8, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 178 Views architecture, beauty, complexity, design, Dutch design, Holland, information design, information overload, information technology, innovation, organizational aesthetics, Steven De Groot, systems thinking, the Netherlands

In a world awash in content and the resulting complexity that comes when it all intersects the viable options for

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Three Lessons From Summer Vacation

September 7, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 199 Views Andrew Knight, art, beauty, Brexit, complexity, design, environment, John Wenger, Mark Rothko, organizational aesthetics, organizational design, psychology, Silwood Group, sociodrama, Steven De Groot

This year I took a summer holiday — something I’ve not done in years — and was reminded what literally stepping

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