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Organizational Cultures of Well-Being

May 3, 2022May 3, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 463 Viewscomplexity, design, health, health promotion, innovation, organizational development, organizational learning, public health, wellbeing

Organizations large and small are starting to re-assemble back in offices and considering what kind of culture they want to

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On Designing For Humans

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 416 Viewsdesign, design for humans, design thinking, innovation, organizational change, organizational development, podcast, scott millar, systems thinking

Designing for Humans sounds like an obvious statement for designers, but very often we design things for things — systems,

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Transparency and Honesty Aren’t the Same

January 22, 2021January 30, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 1094 Viewscreativity, human services, innovation, organizational development, organizational learning, transparency

Transparency without honesty is a way to create illusions under the guise of trust, truth and accountability. Work in human

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Not Working vs Wrong

July 24, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1053 Viewscomplexity, 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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How do we sit with time?

May 16, 2018February 24, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 1471 Viewsbehaviour change, design, developmental design, developmental evaluation, knowledge translation, learning, organizational development, psychology, time

Organizational transformation efforts from culture change to developmental evaluation all depend on one ingredient that is rarely discussed: time. How