Evolutionary Innovation: How We Transform
Innovation is often portrayed as dramatic, disruptive processes and outcomes. That perception might be keeping us from making real transformations.
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Tooling Up for Systemic Design & Learning
Innovation work requires a mindset, a skillset, and a toolset. The key is finding the right tools for the job.
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Learning: Bites, Snacks, and Meals
Media communications is trending toward generating content in small forms. What does small ‘snackable’ content mean for learning big things?
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Conflicted Interests
Shifting outcomes requires shifts in our thinking about what works The science journal Nature recently published a thought piece looking
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The Developmental Psychology of Organizations
Every living thing has a journey that starts somewhere and ends eventually. Our ability to see this, understand it, and
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Learning: The Innovators’ Guaranteed Outcome
Innovation involves bringing something new into the world and that often means a lot of uncertainty with respect to outcomes.
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The Quality Conundrum in Evaluation
One of the central pillars of evaluation is assessing the quality of something, often described as its merit. Along with
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How do we sit with time?
Organizational transformation efforts from culture change to developmental evaluation all depend on one ingredient that is rarely discussed: time. How
Read moreComplex problems and social learning
Adaptation, evolution, innovation, and growth all require that we gain new knowledge and apply it to our circumstances, or learn.
Read moreLearning fails in bad systems
Enormous energy is spent on developing strategies to accomplish things with comparatively little paid to the systems that they are
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