organizational psychology

Not Working vs Wrong

July 24, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 443 Views 0 Comments 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 Psychology

September 17, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 427 Views censemaking, culture of innovation, innovation, innovation lab, mindset, organizational psychology, psychology

Highlights on innovation psychology inspired by the Censemaking Newsletter. Today we dive a little further into some of the headlines

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Putting our organizations on the couch

July 23, 2019July 24, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 711 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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Genetic engineering for your brand

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 Cameron D. Norman 691 Views addiction, behaviour change, brand, business, business model, DNA, emotion, emotional baggage, epigenetics, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, marketing, organizational psychology, psychology, system dynamics, systems science

DNA doesn’t predetermine our future as biological beings, but it does powerfully influence it. Some have applied the concept of ‘DNA’

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Learning fails in bad systems

August 28, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 567 Views behaviour change, case study, continuing medical education, evaluation, healthcare, knowledge integration, knowledge management, knowledge transfer, learning, organizational design, organizational learning, organizational performance, organizational psychology, organizations, praxis, strategy, system design, systems, systems thinking

Enormous energy is spent on developing strategies to accomplish things with comparatively little paid to the systems that they are

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Exploding goals and their myths

July 20, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 473 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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A Beautiful Idea

April 10, 2017April 10, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 532 Views attention, attractor, beauty, behaviour change, book, complexity, creativity, creators, design, emergence, organizational aesthetics, organizational psychology, path dependence, research, Steven De Groot

Is what you do, where you work, or how you organize, beautiful? Among the many words used to describe our

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The Mindful Socially Innovative Organization

October 16, 2012October 17, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 561 Views awareness, consciousness, contemplative inquiry, mindfulness, organizational development, organizational psychology

In complex systems there is a lot to pay attention to. Mindfulness and contemplative inquiry built into the organization can

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