Making Sense of Change and Innovation
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Our Living Disruption Experiment
Disruption is often described in abstract terms with time horizons that look long enough to act on. What we see now is far different from that — faster and more intense. You might have had relatively few ideas of what artificial intelligence looked like until last week. That was when the news of ChatGPT made …
Learning Farewells and Chapter Turns
The story of learning through conferences and Twitter intertwines in a story that might be coming to an end for both. To say there’s a lot of change in the air is both cliche and an understatement in November 2022. Of the many notable changes, two of them are of particular importance to me this …
Systems and Complexity: Implications for Evaluation
This second in a series on Principles-Focused Evaluation (PFE) draws our attention to the concepts of systems and complexity and how can PFE help us navigate both. Systems (thinking), complexity, and principles all go together. Principles-focused Evaluation (PFE) brings them together in meaningful ways, but to understand that, we first need to understand what we …
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Design’s Inspiring Possibility
A new documentary profiles the life and perspective of Bruce Mau, a designer who had contributed more to my passion for the field than any other. Bruce Mau is an enigma. He is a designer in the fullest sense of that term and has demonstrated the power of design thinking (in it’s fullest sense of …
Lessons Taught, Learned, Forgotten, and Ignored
It’s easy to say a lesson was learned and far more difficult to show it to be true. What can we do to best to learn from what’s happened to us and not allow often difficult, painful, hard-fought lessons to go unlearned? When the student is ready, the teacher will appear Unknown A lesson is …
The Power of Regular Network Engagement
The informal conversations we have with friends and colleagues can have enormous value if we’re willing to recognize it. The COVID-19 pandemic gave me a gift that has produced an almost incalculable return on my creativity. Prior to the first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020 most of my engagements with friends and colleagues were episodic. …
Conference Season Here Again: What Have We Learned?
The autumn tends to be a time when many organizations hold conferences and this year is no different. What is different is that we are now in hybrid modes and questions remain about what we’ve learned about learning in a pandemic-affected world. Looking at my calendar I see a number of large events coming up …
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The Third Pillar of Praxis
Learning and doing are important, however without sensing we are practicing and growing in the dark. Praxis is a word that describes the interplay between learning through knowledge and action working together. The more we do, the more we know and the more we know, the more we can do. Praxis is vital to innovation …
A Better Next
Beforetimes were different than now and what’s next will be different, too. The difference is that one we can design for. The carefree days of standing out in public admiring the possibilities is what attracted me to this picture. There’s no digital things, the man is dressed up, there are flowers, yet he’s also mostly …