Incubation and Echoes
Systems change requires the kind of tools and mindset shifts that can move how and what we see to act better. We profile various strategies to help you do that.
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psychology
The Gratitude Mindset (Why it Matters)
Being grateful makes us feel good and helps us find what important things to focus on when developing a strategy for innovating and moving ahead.
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Systems of Influence: The Hidden Forces Shaping What We Do
Staying safe is about understanding systems that affect our choices, not just individuals. We need to design systems better if we want real change to take place.
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Not Working vs Wrong
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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Learning Myths & The Learner
The idea that we have a learning ‘style’ is a myth; let’s stop perpetuating it and engage learners instead. While
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Shifting Your Innovation Goals & Goalposts
What if the best way to accomplish a goal was to not have one or to keep it changing? That’s
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Noticing and the Art of Paying Attention
Innovation is about seeing things differently. This article looks at how our perceptions of the world can influence what we see and what we miss and how evaluation can help with it all.
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Seasons and the Sun: Seeing and Experiencing Change
Thinking in ‘seasons’ allows us to see systems at play that are disguised in the every day. To every thing
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Leadership Skills for Complex Times
Leadership through complexity requires strategies that match our situation: they are flexible, diverse, and creative. “He had a tremendous propensity
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Signals and Actions
Signals of intent can be misleading indicators of future action and may lead away from our desired change. They are
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