Whether it is our organizations, teams or ourselves we need to heal. What’s made this such a complicated challenge is that we must do this as individuals and groups. We also must do this by having shared and unique experiences. This is the design challenge for our age. There’s little need to point out our […]
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Re-opening and returning to some kind of post-COVID reality will require some healing. Where do we start? This post we look at laying the groundwork for designing a process for post-pandemic healing in your organization. The experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on us all in ways that are both shared and
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Sensemaking is having its day – but how much of that is a good thing? In this post I ask whether its popularity and spread is actually making less sense of the world than more. In his book The End of Education Neil Postman explores the purpose of our educational system and what it actually does. His critique is
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Sensemaking practice is social, interactive, and focused on strategies to work through what we think, know, and imagine. In our previous post we introduced the idea of sensemaking and it’s connection to the process of design. In this post we look at the practical aspects of doing sensemaking and why it matters. Sensemaking is about
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Sensemaking allows us to make meaning of what we sense to guide what we can do next. In a previous post, I proposed a simplified explanation of what design is all about. There has been so much written about design and much of it is confusing and it need not be this way. Much of
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The gap between design theory and practice can be bridged by getting back to the principle of making it accessible. What is design? There are a lot of definitions of what design is and is not from the utterly perplexing to the complicated and technical. It doesn’t have to be that way. Design is something
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Winter provides a literal and metaphorical season ripe for sense-making if the other seasons are different Winter creates a natural opportunity to reflect. The cold weather, darkness, and general lack of ability to grow crops has meant that people traditionally spent this season telling stories and making sense of the world as they awaited the
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Without connecting monitoring of our programs with our principles and strategy, we are simply creating impotency in our organizations. The events of January 6th, 2021 at the United States Capitol were appalling to anyone who cares about that republic, democracy, and decency. While a mob incited by the sitting president stormed the building and forced
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We can’t change what we don’t understand and can’t understand what we can’t make sense of. Design is the discipline of innovation. Innovation is the means of taking what we know and learn and transforming it into value. Sensemaking is what allows us to derive meaning from what we see and experience. Together, these three
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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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