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Incubation and Echoes

August 14, 2020February 24, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 463 Views cognitive science, complexity, covid-19, design thinking, Liz Weaver, psychology, sensemaking, sketch map, strategic design, systemic design, systems thinking, Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement, The RSA, toolkit, visual thinking

Systems change requires the kind of tools and mindset shifts that can move how and what we see to act better. We profile various strategies to help you do that.

innovation psychology

Getting Out of Our Heads

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 991 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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Collective action, impact, intelligence & stupidity

February 4, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 572 Views Arab Spring, brainstorming, cognitive science, collective action, collective impact, complexity, decision making, design, Egypt, Ethan Zuckerman, evaluation, Hossein Darakhshan, Ken Blanchard, MIT Media Lab, Occupy movement, politics, psychology, social innovation, social laboratories, social media, Wael Ghonim, Winston Churchill

Collective impact is based largely on the concept that we can do more together than apart, which holds true under