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Practice Amid Disruption

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 338 Views cascade, change, deliberative practice, design practice, emergence, greg satell, innovation, mindfulness, persistence, practice, resilience, Seth Godin, social change, systems thinking

What regular practice does is reduce the cost of failure and these costs are different in times of disruption. Innovation

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Plastic Language and Its Effects

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 679 Views environment, evaluation, measurement, organizational development, plastic, resilience, social innovation, social policy

Plastic language is all about using words in meaningless ways and that creates meaningless impact, too.

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Knowing the Race Your Running

October 1, 2020October 1, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 623 Views finite game, infinite game, mindset, resilience, self-care, Simon Sinek

To run a long-haul race with no visible end means to care for yourself and know that is the race you are running.

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An Age of Creation

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 752 Views adaptive strategy, complexity, covid-19, creativity, innovation, panarchy, resilience, Seth Godin

Creativity can come from destruction. There are ways to think about this can can turn the down into something positive.

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Unpossible

November 21, 2016November 21, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 653 Views complexity, conservation, democracy, Donald Trump, evaluation, innovation, media, monitoring and evaluation, narrative, politics, resilience, Sinclair Lewis, systems thinking, tardigrade, United States

‘Post-truth’ was named the Oxford Dictionary word of the year. No fitting word reflects the strangeness of 2016 with the

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Lost together

July 13, 2016July 13, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 672 Views adaptive strategy, attractor, backbone organization, behaviour change, change, collective impact, complexity, flashlight, Guiseppe di Lampedusa, innovation, psychology, resilience, risk, risk mitigation, simple rules, social innovation, Stanford Social Innovation Review, strategy, streetlight effect

Doing new things to create social value means going into the great unknown, yet our fear of being lost need

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The New Zombie

October 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 794 Views CDC, Clay Shirky, complex systems, contemplative inquiry, design thinking, Facebook, John Bohannon, journalism, metacognition, mindfulness, mobile phones, organizational change, public health, research, resilience, science, social media, systems thinking, The Economist, tribes, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 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.

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Shaking the System of Knowledge Translation and Journalism

September 10, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 832 Views AOL, complexity, developmental evaluation, digital economy, dominant design, emergence, Harvard University, innovation, John F. Kennedy School of Government, knowledge translation, media, New York Times, newspapers, Nieman Journalism Lab, path dependency, public policy, publishing, resilience, resiliency, science, social media, systems thinking, The Joan Shorenstein Center, transmedia, Twitter

Leveraging systems change comes when you are willing to examine the system itself, not just the component parts. News media

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Developmental Design and The Innovator’s Mindset

August 16, 2013August 16, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 1245 Views adaptation, Android, anthropology, Apple, attractor, Blackberry, complexity, design thinking, developmental design, developmental evaluation, evaluation, Globe and Mail, Google, innovation, Instagram, iPad, iPhone, iPod, leadership, mobile phones, multimedia, observation, photography, resilience, Samsung, Steve Jobs, strategy, systems thinking, technology, video, Vine

Blackberry, once the ‘must have’ device is no longer so and may no longer even exist. Looking back on how

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The Job Market Metric In Education

December 30, 2012December 30, 2012 Cameron D. Norman 755 Views complex systems, complexity, contemplative inquiry, continuing medical education, design thinking, developmental evaluation, disruption, education, educational design, evaluation, foresight, jobs, journalism, learning, learning organization, mindfulness, path dependence, professional education, resilience, teaching, university

Post-secondary and continuing education is continuing to be rationalized in ways that are transforming the very foundation of the enterprise.

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