In my posting Lessons Learned and Lessons Not Learned from History I said that there were two major points I drew from “Command or Control?” by Martin Samuels. That entry had to do with the challenge of facing your own past decisions in order to effectively recognize and promote learning throughout an organization. This posting […]
I ran a lecture/workshop for 170 civil servants in Singapore yesterday on the general theme of complexity and networked government as a part of what is wider field of interest for me. We are at the tail end of the World Bank/IMF meeting where Singapore has done a great job of hosting a massive influx […]
One of the broader issues, and I am by no means the first person to call this out, of the way people talk and, by implication, think about AI is anthropomorphic. This is problematic on many levels, including how it frames the issue. The reality is that AI is a set of algorithms and energy-hungry […]
As promised I did try and get all of this into a process map last night while getting through the last three episodes of The English (worth watching and the linked review is a good summary). One of the reasons for that is that the type of system I am describing pretty much exemplifies what I […]
Mapping and the need for maps underpins a lot of this series of posts – both in terms of understanding rituals & habits as well as my more discursive comments in the footers that explain the banner images. I should also say that I am always slightly nervous talking about mapping as its one […]
As I promised yesterday I want to pick up on the use of narrative in lessons learned, or more properly lessons learning processes. The idea here is that looking backward is all well and good but what really matters is what learning is happening in the here and now. The whole point of learning lessons […]
I’ve never really been a player of games. I dabbled in chess when young and the family rituals on wet days on summer holidays involved Monopoly, Buccaneer, Sum-it, and the like. To be honest, I was more interested in reading, debating, sailing, or walking. When computer games came along I was briefly enthralled by Space […]
The banner shot here was taken by me last Sunday in the late afternoon of what was a delightful hike; one of those days where showers are followed by sun and even the low hills/mountains of the Black Mountains assume a mysterious air. I spotted the sheep outlined against the horizon and prayed it would […]
On St David’s Day last year, I started a five-part series of posts to update the Cynefin Framework, all illustrated by pictures of the mountains of Eryri, or Snowdonia if you want to use the Saxon which derives from Snow Dun, or snow hill. For followers of this blog you will know those mountains are […]
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