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Freeze Framing and Turbulence

January 7, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 248 Views 2 Comments behaviour change, foresight, futures, Kurt Lewin, organizational change, strategic foresight, strategy

Turbulence offers a chance to put into place new, better habits, behaviours and structures if we know which ones to

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Not Working vs Wrong

July 24, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 687 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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innovation 

Innovation to Your Inbox

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 633 Views communication, design, design thinking, evaluation, innovation, marketing, newsletter, organizational change, psychology, social media, strategic foresight, systems thinking

Of the many ways to reach people, email still works. Sometimes innovation is best doing new things with old tools.

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psychology 

What change and pool diving have in common

August 12, 2019August 14, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 833 Views behaviour change, organizational change, performance

Change is much like taking a dive off the high diving board. It’s risks and perceptions are never what you think until you get to the top of the diving board, look down, and jump.

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Putting our organizations on the couch

July 23, 2019July 24, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 942 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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Same and Different

June 10, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 848 Views basketball, culture, data, ethnography, health, organizational change, research methods, sleep, sport, Toronto, toronto raptors, transformation

Our ability to affect change in organizations and systems is based heavily on our assumptions about similarities and differences between

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Utility in Design-Driven Evaluation

March 27, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 617 Views design, design-driven evaluation, evaluation, innovation, organizational change

Design-driven evaluation focuses attention on what organization’s use in their decision-making and learning to support the creation of their products,

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psychology 

The Developmental Psychology of Organizations

January 17, 2019June 12, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 754 Views Anders Ericsson, deliberative practice, developmental evaluation, learning, organizational change, personality, skill

Every living thing has a journey that starts somewhere and ends eventually. Our ability to see this, understand it, and

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Reframing change

August 10, 2017August 10, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 1171 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 605 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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