A Different Kind of Herd Mentality
Principles of movement, speed, and position can render our traditional sensemaking approaches useless if we’re not careful. Think of the
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Designing For Path Dependency: The Case of Mental Health
Path dependency is a concept in complexity science that refers to the way in which the past patterns influence current and future actions. Mindful attention to identifying these patterns and use of design thinking can help ensure that the past is not the present, unless we want it to be.
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Innovator’s Dilemmas
A bull is charging us and knowing which which — if any — horn we will take will determine what
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The Mindset, Skillset, Toolset for Innovation
What does it take to innovate? We look at the basics and what they mean for individuals and organizations looking
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Middle Ground
When ideas and opinions push to the extreme finding where the middle ground is becomes an innovation challenge. Darling I
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Sensemaking, Design and Innovation
We can’t change what we don’t understand and can’t understand what we can’t make sense of. Design is the discipline
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But/And: A Psychology of Dualism
Replace the word ‘but’ with ‘and’ to change not only your language, but your worldview, too.
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Incubation and Echoes
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.
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The Gratitude Mindset (Why it Matters)
Being grateful makes us feel good and helps us find what important things to focus on when developing a strategy for innovating and moving ahead.
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Not Working vs Wrong
Change is hard because our identities often depend on us being right, even when we are not. Understanding the myths we hold to can be a means to get past this and make real change and make it stick.
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