For those who haven't seen it Cynthia Kurtz has posted a fascinating and substantive piece on her involvement in the creation of the Cynefin Framework. I have some minor quibbles: the main creative contrast was between her background in biology and mine in physics, more than philosophy to take one example. I also have some reflections which I will post at some stage in the next week or so, but I wanted to make people aware of it now.
Cynthia's integrity is evidenced in her post, in strong contrast with others. She is rightly confident in her own material and ideas and doesn't need to piggyback on someone else's material. Her original contribution to Cynefin, in particular the tetrahedrons (her seeing eyes) and the butterfly stamping exercise were substantial; her desire to further develop those ideas and create new models will advance the field and I look forward to seeing, and learning from what she does.
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Dave, I apologize for overlooking the physics part of your background. I was not aware you had one, and don't recall you ever mentioning it in the years we worked together, while you did mention your philosophy background often. I checked your bio on Wikipedia when writing the post (to check my memory) and found that your degrees were in philosophy and business; I was not aware of anything related to physics. I will update my blog to correct the omission.
Posted by Cynthia Kurtz | June 24, 2010 9:05 PM
Posted on June 24, 2010 21:05
No need to change it Cynthia! You are right about my degrees, but I read for a Philosophy and Physics joint honors, but switched to pure philosophy in the final year. We did talk about it though, in the meeting you reference with Sharon and in some of the discussions on the first joint paper. Now as it happens I don't remember leaping up and saying its the same! Memory is an interesting thing.
It is a great post by the way - enjoying reading and re-reading it
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June 24, 2010 9:10 PM
Posted on June 24, 2010 21:10