Guiseppe di Lampedusa

Innovation, Change and The Leopard

May 15, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 2575 Views change, complexity, design, design-driven evaluation, design-driven-strategy, developmental evaluation, Guiseppe di Lampedusa, the leopard

Innovation is a misunderstood and often misrepresented concept that can provoke fear, indifference, resentment, confusion, or irrational exuberance. To understand

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Lost together

July 13, 2016July 13, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 523 Views adaptive strategy, attractor, backbone organization, behaviour change, change, collective impact, complexity, flashlight, Guiseppe di Lampedusa, innovation, psychology, resilience, risk, risk mitigation, simple rules, social innovation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, strategy, streetlight effect

Doing new things to create social value means going into the great unknown, yet our fear of being lost need

"If you focus on what you left behind, then how can you see what lies ahead?" —Chef Gusteau, "Ratatouille" 8 hours ago
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The Shifting Sands of Marketing (our ideas, our livelihood, and our industries) #marketing #socinn censemaking.com/2021/01/23/the… 11 hours ago
Transparency and Honesty Aren't the Same. Some questions to test how transparent your work is. censemaking.com/2021/01/22/tra… 1 day ago

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