This is a two-part post. Today I want to establish the context by talking about comfort and related factors such as resilience in the context of walking in good and bad weather conditions. Tomorrow I will extend that learning into an update of how I see resilience from a sense-making perspective, pulling together material from […]
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Two days ago I wrote a post that looked at what leadership theory is not indulging my love of language to introduce the word apophatic to a wider audience. Today I want to look at the more positive aspects, the positive things we can say, and do, hence the word kataphatic. But in simple form the last
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Almost every SenseMaker collection, no matter what it is, contains some garden-variety multiple-choice questions. These may appear simple, but they can often be deceptively tricky. They depend on multiple things, such as which categories are significant to our question (for example, might the patterns associated with children’s stories be different to those of adults?), or
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There is some continuity here with yesterday’s post on the mystical, or ineffable aspects of human sense-making. Aporetic theology is a form of knowledge by negation, a via negationis in which we can know what something is not but not truly what it is. To quote Aquinas “Now, because we cannot know what God is, but
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I’ve started all the other posts in this brief series with a health warning and today is no exception. The first post was about theology which triggered two posts about the theory and suggested the practice of creating trichotomies rather than crude polarities. In the final post, I want to return to a religious theme,
A sense of the other Read More »
In 2021, the Cynefin Centre hopes that we can start introducing and highlighting the work carried out by our members more than ever before. Today’s blog post offers the stage to a project looking at experiences of the pandemic all around the world. Catherine Russell explains: 2020 saw a transformative series of events that have
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The theory post of yesterday came with a health warning and this one does as well – There are some things that really irritate me and drove these two posts so the next three paragraphs are polemical, jump to the new method if you want to avoid them Anyone who follows me on social media
A trialectic method Read More »
Warning note: This post is an introduction to a practical method and approach to handling conflicts and differences in organisations and society, which I will outline tomorrow. But to get there I am going to ramble through some fairly esoteric references to theologians and post-modern political geography so if you want to skip today’s post
Earlier in the month I wrote two posts on networks, and in the second gave the first public airing to one of the most important developments of the last few years namely Entangled Trios. On either side of the link you will see posts from my good friend Valdis Krebs. This post is a response
