Same and Different
Our ability to affect change in organizations and systems is based heavily on our assumptions about similarities and differences between
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organizational change
Utility in Design-Driven Evaluation
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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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
Read moreReframing change
Change is one of the few universal constants as things — people, planet, galaxy — are always in some state
Read moreExploding goals and their myths
Goal-directed language guides much of our social policy, investment and quests for innovation without much thought of what that means
Read moreActing on Failure or Failure to Act?
Who would have thought that failure would be held up as something to be desired just a few years ago?
Read moreThe New Zombie
Information is everywhere (and if you live in cities, people might be everywhere, too) and yet the volume of information we see is overwhelmed by what we do not see. Zombies are among us like information and because of that information might be less attuned to what is going on around them. This has enormous consequences and most of it is not good.
Read moreThe Literacy of Change
It has been said that change is the only constant, yet for something so pervasive change is a remarkably thorny and poorly understood concept. One reason is that change is often approached as a set of facts about a static state of affairs instead of as a literacy, which at change in a far more dynamic context that reflects human systems more accurately.
Read moreFashionably Thinking About Systems and Consumption
In April 2013 the world was horrified to learn that more than one thousand people were killed in a Bangladeshi
Read moreHow Serious Are We About Learning?
When journalist and book author Daniel Pink tweeted the above image the other day it provoked thinking about what real
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