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Confidence and Change

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 434 Viewsbehaviour change, creative confidence, discovery, history, innovation, moon, psychology, science, self-efficacy

Confidence is among the central pillars of behaviour change and also among the most complicated of them. Confidence can be

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Light or Darker? The Age of Complexity

November 12, 2021November 12, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 552 Viewscomplexity, design, design thinking, evaluation, innovation, leonard cohen, science, systems thinking

Five years ago we were on the cusp of the Trump presidency, experienced the recent Brexit vote, and what felt

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psychology systems thinking 

Climate Changes

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 589 Viewsbehaviour change, climate change, conservation, design, design thinking, environment, innovation, psychology, research, science, systems thinking

Our future depends on our ability to change how we see ourselves and the world and act on it —

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Complexity At The Beach

July 12, 2021July 12, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 674 Viewsadaptive strategy, behaviour change, complex adaptive systems, complexity, psychology, science, strategy, systems thinking

We can learn much about change from our trips to the beach and how things relate to one another. Beach-going

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Scaling Impact

November 19, 2019January 23, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 3087 Viewscomplex adaptive systems, complex innovation, complexity, Geoffrey West, IDRC, innovation, John Gargani, lean methodology, research, Santa Fe Institute, scaling, scaling impact, science, social innovation, systems thinking

‘Achieving scale’ might be the golden goose of social innovation. It’s a simple phrase, but its meaning and misunderstanding is

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Conflicted Interests

July 12, 2019July 13, 2019 Cameron D. Norman 1118 Viewsbehaviour 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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Exploding goals and their myths

July 20, 2017 Cameron D. Norman 960 Viewsbeauty, 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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You Want It Darker?

November 11, 2016October 28, 2021 Cameron D. Norman 1369 ViewsBrexit, complexity theory, David Souter, Donald Trump, economics, evaluation, H.L. Mencken, politics, program planning, science, systems thinking, United Kingdom, United States

It is poetic irony on many levels that weeks after Leonard Cohen releases his album about the threat of death

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health systems thinking 

When More is Less: The Information Paradox

September 22, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 2022 ViewsBarry Schwartz, Bill Nye, complexity, decision making, design, health systems, healthcare, information technology, Louis C.K., mobile phones, patient engagement, psychology, science, sensemaking, systems thinking, Tony Schwartz

There is a point at which information ceases to increase knowledge and understand and begins to undermine it, creating a

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Decoding the change genome

April 12, 2016April 12, 2016 Cameron D. Norman 837 Viewsbehaviour change, complexity, evaluation, genetics, genomics, impact investing, Jason Saul, MaRS, meta-evaluation, program evaluation, psychology, research, science, social impact, social impact measurement, social innovation, systems change, Toronto

Would we invest in something if we had little hard data to suggest what we could expect to gain from

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Living Our Future Selves Today With Foresight

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Strategic Foresight can do more than help us to see what might come, it can help us to live better

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The Design of Well-Being in Practice

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