Joining the Cynefin Centre in last November felt serendipitous in many ways. I felt that the focus of the Centre tied together so many of my interests that had been culminating over the last few years. With The Cynefin Centre, I’m writing a white paper about the vector theory of change which draws on […]
Introduction to Linda Read More »
Yesterday I raised the question of boundary conditions that will arise with our shift to an open-source, wiki-driven approach to methods and also concepts. In effect it is a problem of constraints: over constrain the system and there is insufficient diversity for growth and widespread adoption, ignore the need for constraints and you loose all
It has been a curious, if interesting week with a more or less perfect ending this afternoon. It has however been busy and I’ve clocked up some very long days starting before 0600 and rarely finishing before 2000. the reason is the series of sprints that we initiated to get the wiki populated on core
A Spotted or Herbaceous Backson? Read More »
As always, let’s start with one of the high-level patterns in our collection: the sources of knowledge or awareness in the actions or stories shared. The largest cluster of stories is at the top of the triad, showing that in most stories, knowledge came from social or mass media, with a secondary group at the
[…] Myself, in my teaching, I try my best to do this by setting up a “safe-fail” (aka, Dave Snowden), albeit graded environment where, like John Dewey, Paulo Friere and the like have eluded, my […]
I’m spending the bulk of Sunday getting ready for an intensive series of sprints next week to get the Cynefin wiki populated with all the methods and concepts outlined within the recently published field-guide. The decision to shift all the various methods that I, and colleagues, have developed over the years into open source was an
Whence, where, where next … Read More »
So this weekend is the Winter Revel of HTLGI, virtual thanks to Covid but I still hope that we will back under tents at Hay this summer. Virtual gives you the same richness of content, and in more comfortable surroundings but I miss the conversations and the being in one physical place and concentrating on
Differences to make a difference Read More »
One of the features of being a generalist is that you are always curious about new things and understanding, outside of your original fields of study or practice and often tangential to it. My early software business as a general manager involved taking academic ideas to market for the first time and when I moved
Moving on, with respect Read More »
This week we are looking at the dimension of time. Time is a central concept in all kinds of contexts, and it is an anchor that is often used when people interpret their stories. The core ideas of past, present, and future can take on different labels and nuances depending on the specific nature and
Looking back at the Acorn Study; Part 5: Looking backwards, looking forwards Read More »
An alternative title for today’s post could have been sometimes necessary, rarely sufficient with the same subject namely the legitimate discussion of competence and its role in decision making as well as questions arising from the more nefarious areas of competence standards and certifications. the proximate trigger for this was the publication on Sunday of GAPPS Guiding
The loci of competence Read More »
