Doing Nothing: An Innovation Paradox
Strategy in chaos is like whitewater rafting — it needs stillness among the motion. Sometimes the best transformation and boldest action is doing nothing.
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Noticing and the Art of Paying 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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Seasons and the Sun: Seeing and Experiencing Change
Thinking in ‘seasons’ allows us to see systems at play that are disguised in the every day. To every thing
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Leadership Skills for Complex Times
Leadership through complexity requires strategies that match our situation: they are flexible, diverse, and creative. “He had a tremendous propensity
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Causal Looks: Foresight Fundamentals
It’s been said the best way to predict the future is to create it: foresight is way to help us
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The Power of Subtle Change
Changing dualisms and either/or thinking into real strategic plans can allow us to make big differences and change with small actions.
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An Age of Creation
Creativity can come from destruction. There are ways to think about this can can turn the down into something positive.
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Learning As Our Outcome
You knew it would come . This week we started to see accusations and conflict peek through what had been
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Live Learning
Our models of organized learning could benefit from the disruption we’re seeing across society…if we allow it. The conceit of
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Survey Says What?
Our data collection efforts during a time of VUCA are impaired by not only our methods, but our sense of what is actually happening.
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