I originally intended to publish this post way back in May and got all the notes together but a mixture of work pressure and ill health (a bad foot infection now resolved) have hit the backlog. If you have to spend two weeks with your foot elevated and iced taking strong anti-biotics its too easy […]
Natural science as counter-factual Read More »
[…] etc,, where some of them are what Dave Snowden calls “the tyranny of the explicit” [The tyranny of the explicit – Cognitive Edge (cognitive-edge.com)]. Many of them are also an outcome, new symptoms and consequences, originating from the […]
I’m going to assume that everyone who frequents this blog and is a regular reader of Dave’s work is very familiar with general concepts of evolution, both as a biological fact and as a metaphor. In the Cynefin framework, evolution appears most prominently in exaptive practice, associated with the complex domain. Exaptation in that context
How the elephant got his trunk: what evolution can teach us about complexity Read More »
Anthro complexity I’m going to assume that everyone who frequents this blog and is a regular reader of Dave’s work is very familiar with general concepts of evolution, both as a biological fact and as a metaphor. In the Cynefin framework, evolution appears most prominently in exaptive practice, associated with the complex domain. Exaptation in
How the elephant got his trunk: what evolution can teach us about complexity Read More »
[…] [1] Snowden, Dave. Blog post. Link copied 2021-05-23. Bad titles and the need for theory to inform practice – Cognitive Edge (cognitive-edge.com) […]
So I’m back at the desk in my study, driven home from two weeks walking and cycling in the Lake District by Atlantic storms a day early. I’ve found a perfect self-catering location that is reasonably priced and within 90 minutes of the bulk of the walks. I’m on a mission (the obsessional collector aspect
Coherence and ‘truth’ Read More »
From time to time someone, knowing my interest in narrative sends me a link to yet another website collecting people’s stories. One popped up in slack as I was writing this offering a “magic formula” to change the world. It has some powerful stories all carefully curated by the design team. They are organised into
To curate or be curated? Read More »
I talked yesterday about metaphor-based languages and used Winnie the Pooh as an illustration. That was part of a loose set of posts starting to develop and codify a more general theory of leadership from a sense-making and anthro-complexity perspective. One of the key components of that theory is the idea of communication through engagement.
After a couple of weeks of hiatus (early spring is definitely Bank Holiday season here in Cyprus), this blog series returns for its final look back at the Acorn Study. To extend the metaphor, it is time to look at the forest floor and examine the new growth. Before we do that, I would like
Looking back at the Acorn Study; Part 9: Seedlings Read More »
You may be asking what connects the events on stardate 45047.2, the battlefield at Gettysburg (picture from October 2019 on a trip with good friends between conferences), and an illustration from chapter three of Winne the Pooh “In which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle”. Or there again you may not,
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra Read More »
