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Sensemaking, Design and Innovation

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Cameron D. Norman 723 Views complexity, covid-19, design thinking, innovation, learning, policy, public health, sensemaking, The RSA, tribes, wicked problems

We can’t change what we don’t understand and can’t understand what we can’t make sense of. Design is the discipline

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The New Zombie

October 24, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 814 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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The Resilient Tribe: Designing Leadership For Complexity

October 18, 2013October 18, 2013 Cameron D. Norman 744 Views behaviour change, change leadership, CoNEKTR model, design, groups, Heather Gold, leadership, Meg Wheatley, networks, resiliency, systems thinking, tribes, tummeling

Individuals, organizations and networks are living with unprecedented social complexity requiring more attention than ever on fostering resiliency at all