The Complexity Cop-out
Complexity introduces significant challenges for humans. One of the unexpected ones is that it’s been used to hide from difficult
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emergence
A Beautiful Idea
Is what you do, where you work, or how you organize, beautiful? Among the many words used to describe our
Read moreInternational Women’s Day, Every Day
Today is International Women’s Day when the attention of one half of the world’s population is brought to the entire
Read moreMental health: talking and listening
Innovation might be doing things different to produce value, but there’s little value if we as a society are not
Read moreDevelopmental Evaluation and Design
Innovation is about channeling new ideas into useful products and services, which is really about design. Thus, if developmental
Read moreDevelopmental Evaluation and Mindfulness
Developmental evaluation is focused on real-time decision making for programs operating in complex, changing conditions, which can tax the attentional
Read moreDevelopmental Evaluation and Sensemaking
Developmental evaluation is only as good as the sense that can be made from the data that is received. To
Read moreBringing Design into Developmental Evaluation
Developmental evaluation is an approach to understanding and shaping programs in service of those who wish to grow and evolve
Read moreShaking the System of Knowledge Translation and Journalism
Leveraging systems change comes when you are willing to examine the system itself, not just the component parts. News media
Read moreOne leg, two leg, three leg, more?
In Orwell’s classic Animal Farm the characters often oscillate between their evaluative assessments on the merits of two or four
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