Guiseppe di Lampedusa

Innovation, Change and The Leopard

May 15, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 2282 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 371 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

Here’s what the state of plans are for post-secondary education in Canada. Stating them is one thing, but what are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 15 hours ago
@AllisonTitcomb So true. Lots of magical thinking to go with the hand waves! 16 hours ago
If much learning is done in context, then what happens when we remove students from contexts to apply them? Or the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 16 hours ago
The more I think of the complexity of learning, teaching, and managing education the more angry I get seeing the 'n… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 16 hours ago
We seem fully unprepared to have very complicated, difficult conversations about what schools -- primary, secondary… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 16 hours ago
We can design our next innovation to emphasize beauty and be much better for it (and more effective). Or not.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 21 hours ago

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