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Maybe We Shouldn’t Design for Resilience

April 29, 2022April 29, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 423 Viewsdesign, design for humans, health, psychology, resilience, systems thinking, workplace

Resilience is about ‘bouncing back’ and getting through challenges, but is it the right model to be considered when “back”

design evaluation

Design-Driven Evaluation and System Change

March 3, 2022March 3, 2022 Cameron D. Norman 638 ViewsAmerican Evaluation Association, design thinking, design-driven evaluation, developmental evaluation, evaluation, mindset, resilience, visionary evaluation

Our designs drive systems change as much as anything and feedback drives good design. Feedback comes from evaluation so it

innovation systems thinking

Practice Amid Disruption

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 611 Viewscascade, 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 950 Viewsenvironment, 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 895 Viewsfinite 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.

systems thinking

An Age of Creation

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 1012 Viewsadaptive 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 906 Viewscomplexity, 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 989 Viewsadaptive 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

health psychology systems thinking

The New Zombie

October 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 1090 ViewsCDC, 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.

education & learning health systems thinking

Shaking the System of Knowledge Translation and Journalism

September 10, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 1065 ViewsAOL, 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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