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Not Working vs Wrong

July 24, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 619 Views complexity, decision making, goals, learning, organizational change, organizational development, organizational learning, organizational psychology, psychology, social psychology, systems thinking

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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Shifting Your Innovation Goals & Goalposts

July 10, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 916 Views Geoff Wilson, goal setting, goals, ideas, innovation, leadership, MyFortay, psychology, Simon Sinek, video

What if the best way to accomplish a goal was to not have one or to keep it changing? That’s

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Putting our organizations on the couch

July 23, 2019July 24, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 833 Views complexity, goals, innovation, innovation ecosystem, innovation lab, metrics, organizational change, organizational psychology, psychotherapy

Creating change through rational planning only gets us halfway there. Looking inward will take us the rest of the journey.

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Complex problems and social learning

September 14, 2017September 14, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 897 Views education, goals, groups, knowledge exchange, knowledge management, learning, learning organization, organizational development, organizational learning, social, social networks

Adaptation, evolution, innovation, and growth all require that we gain new knowledge and apply it to our circumstances, or learn.

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Reframing change

August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 1095 Views behaviour change, change, consulting, goals, organizational change, psychology, surf

Change is one of the few universal constants as things — people, planet, galaxy — are always in some state

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Exploding goals and their myths

July 20, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 552 Views beauty, behaviour change, design, goals, health behaviour change, organizational change, organizational psychology, organizations, psychology, science, self-determination theory, social science

Goal-directed language guides much of our social policy, investment and quests for innovation without much thought of what that means

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Smart goals or better systems?

July 19, 2017December 1, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1346 Views adaptive strategy, creativity, decision making, evaluation, goals, impact, innovation, measurement, organizational design, organizational development, performance measurement, program evaluation, social change, systems thinking

If you’re working toward some sort of collective goals — as an organization, network or even as an individual —

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