psychology

behaviour change complexity evaluation psychology 

Change Stumbling

January 8, 2020January 8, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 474 Views adaptive strategy, change, design thinking, developmental evaluation, evaluation, Judo, motivation, movement, new year's resolutions, Parkour, psychology, strategic foresight, willpower

Change-making requires accepting some degree of failure. How we deal with our stumbles determines how or whether we succeed. If

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design design thinking psychology 

The Empathy Gap

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1097 Views behavioural economics, design research, design thinking, empathy, Jon Kolko, marketing, neuroscience, perception, psychology, Remembrance Day, research, Rory Sutherland, service design

Empathy is considered to be at the bedrock of good design. But what if how we’re thinking about empathy is

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marketing psychology Toolkit 

Presenting Tips for the Anxious Innovator

October 8, 2019October 2, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 646 Views anxiety, communication, knowledge translation, positive psychology, presentation, psychology, tools

The opportunity to teach is a chance to influence others. Here’s some tips and tricks to make that moment better.

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behaviour change psychology 

Behavioural Design, Attention & Change

October 2, 2019October 2, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 682 Views attention, behaviour change, behavioural design, book, change, design, distraction, nir eyal, psychology

How do we design for attention in a distracted world? Nir Eyal has some answers to provide the focus we

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innovation psychology 

Positivity, Flexibility, and Self-care

September 19, 2019September 18, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 473 Views innovation, performance, positive psychology, psychology, self-care, workplace

We can forget the needs of the people doing innovation. Looking after ourselves requires a new set of innovation skills.

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innovation 

Innovation Psychology

September 17, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 422 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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innovation 

Innovation to Your Inbox

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 525 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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evaluation innovation psychology 

Deception and Labels

August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 666 Views demographics, failure, future of work, identity, innovation, label, measurement, psychology, research, work

Labels can shape the behaviour they describe, affecting our research. Knowing when labels describes or shapes actions makes a difference.

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behaviour change psychology strategic foresight 

Getting Out of Our Heads

August 1, 2019August 1, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 741 Views art, beauty, behaviour change, cognition, cognitive science, H.L. Mencken, health behaviour change, health psychology, John Wenger, Leonardo da Vinci, organizational aesthetics, psychology, sociodrama, strategic foresight, strategy, theory

Too much change psychology focuses on the way we think. Sometimes creating change requires we get out of our heads.

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behaviour change psychology science & technology 

Conflicted Interests

July 12, 2019July 13, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 635 Views behaviour change, creativity, discovery, innovation, learning, psychology, rationality, Robert Scott Root-Bernstein, science, theory

Shifting outcomes requires shifts in our thinking about what works The science journal Nature recently published a thought piece looking

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