Archives
- 2010.09.01: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
- 2010.08.31: Proverbs 2:6
- 2010.08.30: Introductions
- 2010.08.27: A "Work of Art"
- 2010.08.27: The Emergence of Chaos, Complexity, Complication and Order
- 2010.08.26: Be the Chaos! (social entropy)
- 2010.08.26: Money, "Real World", Pretend, Law and Order, Cops, Getting Fired, etc...
- 2010.08.25: Culture and Society and Identity
- 2010.08.24: The Science of the Past
- 2010.08.23: Phenomenology - Epistemology - Ontology
- 2010.08.20: Ontology as System
- 2010.08.19: The "Emergent Interpretant"
- 2010.08.18: Freedom vs. Security
- 2010.08.16: Introductions and a little background
- 2010.08.14: 2 degrees of separation
- 2010.08.12: Latest "toy"
- 2010.08.09: Ladies a plate
- 2010.08.07: Spontaneous Order
- 2010.08.05: Hectors World
- 2010.08.03: What did you dream about last night?
- 2010.08.01: Introduction
- 2010.07.31: It's 4.03 and I can't sleep...
- 2010.07.22: Between introversion and extroversion
- 2010.07.21: Of fishes, fishing, and feeding
- 2010.07.20: The Spirit of Inquiry
- 2010.07.19: Introduction
- 2010.07.18: Weak Signals to Retrospective Coherence
- 2010.07.16: Technology limitations and pattern entrainment
- 2010.07.14: Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
- 2010.07.13: The challenge of using someone else's Best Practices
- 2010.07.13: Lessons Learned and Lessons Not Learned from History
- 2010.07.12: The Logical Thinking Process and the Cynefin Model
- 2010.07.10: Hindsight, Foresight, and Learning from Military History
- 2010.07.10: Yes, it is obvious...but only in hindsight.
- 2010.07.09: Why I must apologize to Southern California
- 2010.07.06: Introductions are in order: Cynefin and Theory of Constraints
- 2010.07.03: Mine safety: action saturation
- 2010.07.03: A reflection on running a sensemaking company
- 2010.07.03: Token World Cup post
- 2010.06.26: Comparing complex and traditional facilitation approaches
- 2010.06.26: Metaphors
- 2010.06.22: Language & Safe-fail probes
- 2010.06.22: Salutations
- 2010.06.18: Complex Adaptive Processes on a Wiki?
- 2010.06.16: Navigation: how we see sites and evolve their meaning
- 2010.06.14: Wikis as a Complex-Adaptive System
- 2010.06.04: A poem
- 2010.05.30: Time out….but not really!!!!
- 2010.05.26: Making sense of and using stuff from the Accreditation Program
- 2010.05.25:
- 2010.05.23: Untitled
- 2010.05.21: Idea: A Network of Practitioners, and then some in Denmark
- 2010.05.15: Applying Game Theory in Petanque
- 2010.05.13: Is the pursuit of dreams = inefficiency?
- 2010.05.10: Turning a passion into a job
- 2010.05.08: Alice through the glass ceiling or Tweedledum Tweedledee and Tweedledem
- 2010.05.06: Trusting in the least worst
- 2010.05.05: Banking on the future?
- 2010.05.02: "What goes without saying comes without saying" Bourdieu
- 2010.04.28: Mobile misery
- 2010.04.27: Whose Healthcare...?
- 2010.04.26: Change? - will that be 30p then?
- 2010.04.23: Thanks for the opportunity
- 2010.04.23: Continuing on culture in the workplace
- 2010.04.21: How we deal with culture in KM
- 2010.04.19: Notes on Japan & Toyota - No. 2
- 2010.04.17: The Knowledge Wheel
- 2010.04.13: Emic & Etic
- 2010.04.10: Blogging from Macau
- 2010.04.06: Happy holidays
- 2010.04.02: The water company engineers story
- 2010.03.30: Let no man despise thy youth
- 2010.03.28: The power of informal systems
- 2010.03.22: Some more ‘necessaries – but not sufficients’ ……
- 2010.03.18: Language as a necessary - but not sufficient - tool of disruption……
- 2010.03.17: The unintended consequences of a sideways intervention……
- 2010.03.15: On being a disruptive technology……
- 2010.03.14: Cynefin jigsaws?
- 2010.03.11: The vexed issue of language
- 2010.03.09: What do you mean, evidence?
- 2010.03.08: Bed-time ritual
- 2010.03.04: Reflections from a statistician
- 2010.03.03: Serendipitous synchronicity
- 2010.03.01: The journey begins ...
- 2010.02.25: Reflexions III: The Meetings
- 2010.02.24: Reflexions II: The Metaphor
- 2010.02.23: Reflexions I: The Model (continued)
- 2010.02.22: Reflexions I: The Model
- 2010.02.21: Spirituality at Work
- 2010.02.20: Digesting the Accreditation Course
- 2010.02.17: How does an organization know what it knows?
- 2010.02.15: KM Definitions or Metaphors?
- 2010.02.14: Time Differences
- 2010.02.09: Experiment on your friends
- 2010.02.08: Avoiding client rejection later, annoy them now...
- 2010.02.06: Toothache, Faceache and adaptation
- 2010.02.04: Ah-ha moments
- 2010.02.01: A practitioner's viewpoint
- 2010.01.30: Thanks!
- 2010.01.30: An Approaching Shift in Medical Education?
- 2010.01.29: We Need Health Care "Capatance"
- 2010.01.28: A Collision of Ideas: Synthesis or Destruction?
- 2010.01.27: Important Comments
- 2010.01.26: It's Tribal
- 2010.01.25: Being Smarter-The Plexus Institute Story
- 2010.01.24: "Health" Care or "Medical" Care
- 2010.01.22: Reality by Decree
- 2010.01.22: Metacognition and Intuition
- 2010.01.21: Evidence Based Medicine and You
- 2010.01.20: Value...What is it?
- 2010.01.19: Thinking Like a Farmer
- 2010.01.18: The Gokstad Ship and Health Care
- 2010.01.17: Medicine Isn't Rocket Science
- 2010.01.15: Social Media Monitoring, Enhancing KM by Ankur Makhija
- 2010.01.13: When One Blue Crayon Isn't Enough by April K. Mills
- 2010.01.06: Cargo Cult by April K. Mills
- 2009.12.30: Cross domain confusion.
- 2009.12.11: Tiger Tiger in the night ...
- 2009.12.10: Stockholm 2009 Deserves its own Blog
- 2009.12.09: Personal Responsibility vs Rules and Regulations
- 2009.12.07: Science, Truth, Sound bites & The News
- 2009.12.07: Do you believe in doughnuts?
- 2009.12.06: What should I read?
- 2009.12.05: Bite sized learning, the new age
- 2009.12.04: Airplane seats
- 2009.12.01: Teenage & Adolescent Violence – Problem Solving Incompetence
- 2009.11.30: Environment, Ecology and The Point?
- 2009.11.29: About Sensemaker and following Chris’ comment on the 28th
- 2009.11.25: SenseMaker™
- 2009.11.22: Baggage Handling - Aussie style
- 2009.11.19: Learning to learn - the "Ah ha" moment
- 2009.11.18: Reflections in nature
- 2009.11.17: An Ordered approach to a Complex world
- 2009.11.16: What is it about context?
- 2009.11.15: Introduction - my journey into Complexity
- 2009.11.10:
- 2009.11.06: Creating chefs from recipes
- 2009.10.28: Concerted marketing efforts
- 2009.10.22: What is the SenseMaker™ software about?
- 2009.10.19: Language in the CE context
- 2009.10.16: Priming, framing, and exaptations
- 2009.10.16: Spandrels and exaptations
- 2009.10.14: Imprisoning neology
- 2009.10.14: Boundaries
- 2009.10.10: Eat my words time!
- 2009.10.08: How do you Spot Radical Novelty?
- 2009.10.07: Celebrate the Season... and Innovate
- 2009.10.05: The Short-lived Concepts of Blackmail & Privacy
- 2009.10.04: Complexity Theory in Cuba.....
- 2009.10.03: Making Education Dangerous, Pt. 2.
- 2009.10.03: Making Education Dangerous, Pt. 1
- 2009.10.01: Education Needs to be Dangerous
- 2009.09.26: Context is Changed - Rock of Cashel
- 2009.09.25: Context is Lost - Newgrange
- 2009.09.24: Context is Layered - Making Sense at Knowth/Cnogbha
- 2009.09.22: Are Chefs Knowledge Workers?
- 2009.09.21: My Daughter is Not a Knowledge Worker
- 2009.09.20: Introduction and How'r'ye?
- 2009.09.15: But why did it work?
- 2009.09.08: Mass capture and recognising patterns
- 2009.09.07: Chicken and the Egg
- 2009.09.02: Piloting Social Media
- 2009.09.01: Word of the day: Stigmergy
- 2009.08.28: Beach poems, patterns
- 2009.08.26: Keeping the puppies in the box
- 2009.08.24: In Formation
- 2009.08.21: Success is a self-correcting strategy
- 2009.08.18: Culture at Netflix
- 2009.08.17: Standing on the shoulders of giants
- 2009.08.14: It's as if the ghost is controlling the machine
- 2009.08.11: "A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on"
- 2009.08.10: HARNESSing knowledge
- 2009.08.06: UK Leader Calls for Customer Service!
- 2009.08.06: The Europeans are Coming!
- 2009.08.03: LA - Home of the Beautiful?
- 2009.07.20: MacLeod Review says people potential should be ‘unleashed’
- 2009.07.20: ‘Real’ speak not academic speak
- 2009.07.16: Service, service service!
- 2009.07.13: Off to Paris!
- 2009.07.10: Good governance
- 2009.07.07: MIVIPUCOVA
- 2009.07.03: Talking machines
- 2009.06.30: 29 June 2009
- 2009.06.14: Thanks a lot, see you....
- 2009.06.13: Obama - UK
- 2009.06.11: airports....
- 2009.06.10: The flu and my parents
- 2009.06.08: Saturday night in A&E and complexity…. A good match?
- 2009.06.06: This must be the worst story of the year...
- 2009.06.04: very good book
- 2009.06.03: London vs. Paris
- 2009.06.02: Train to London today….
- 2009.06.01: MP and swimming pools
- 2009.05.31: The first time....Back from Cornwell..
- 2009.05.29: Taking measured steps
- 2009.05.28: Always do the scary thing.
- 2009.05.26: Tim
- 2009.05.25: Something new something old
- 2009.05.22: My pedometer and me
- 2009.05.21: The complex life of guavas
- 2009.05.20: Backwards and forward
- 2009.05.19: Distance and connectedness
- 2009.05.18: thanks for reading
- 2009.05.15: low tech and on the ground - Cog Edge methods at work
- 2009.05.12: old knowledge ignored
- 2009.05.08: bewitched by the binders
- 2009.05.06:
- 2009.05.04: Greetings
- 2009.04.29: From technological networks to social networks (2)
- 2009.04.23: From technological networks to social networks (1)
- 2009.04.20: Confessions of a twitterati
- 2009.04.18: Last post. Thanks all!
- 2009.04.16: On youth, complexity and an expanding universe
- 2009.04.13: Answering Jim
- 2009.04.12: Chris Martenson's Crash Course – the money system
- 2009.04.09: Some more about Bartlett, and perhaps on to Martenson
- 2009.04.07: Hi friends - continued
- 2009.04.05: Dear friends
- 2009.03.26: Mencius
- 2009.03.25: Gareth Morgan
- 2009.03.24: Goethe
- 2009.03.23: The Katha Upanishad
- 2009.03.19: Poison Ivy and Itchy Bits
- 2009.03.16: A fish in a tree. How can that be?
- 2009.03.12: Here in 60 Seconds
- 2009.03.09: Wealth Distribution
- 2009.03.07: Repair
- 2009.03.01: Sanity
- 2009.02.25: Skin
- 2009.02.23: Happy Birthday Liberty
- 2009.02.23: The Body Corporate
- 2009.02.14: Agile Software Narratives and other examples
- 2009.02.09: The reality of software development
- 2009.02.08: Introducing myself
- 2009.02.07: Call to Action
- 2009.02.06: Seven Disciplines of Strategic Thinking – Reflect/Be Simple
- 2009.02.05: Seven Disciplines of Strategic Thinking – Act Slowly/Serve Others
- 2009.02.04: Seven Disciplines of Strategic Thinking - Know Your Own Story/Think Small
- 2009.02.03: The Three Illusions
- 2009.02.02: The Nature of Strategic Thinking
- 2009.02.01: The Space Between Denial and Despair
- 2009.01.27: Point of View
- 2009.01.24: Flashing Images
- 2009.01.23: The Power of Social Networks
- 2009.01.20: Tomorrow’s Inauguration
- 2009.01.17: Choose Your Friends Carefully
- 2009.01.16: Learning on the Job
- 2009.01.14: Erroneous Brain Heuristics
- 2009.01.12: Greetings!
- 2008.12.21: From Richard Lalleman
- 2008.12.17: GUEST BLOG OPEN
- 2008.12.14: Until We Meet Again
- 2008.12.13: Is Dominance a Difference that Makes a Difference?
- 2008.12.12: So, what about accountability?
- 2008.12.10: Shorts and Not-So-Simples
- 2008.12.09: Celebrating Uncertainty: Happy New Year 2009
- 2008.12.08: Chaos and Conflict
- 2008.12.06: Communication in a CAS
- 2008.12.04: Network of Networks
- 2008.12.03: Zone of Chaos
- 2008.12.02: Is that all?
- 2008.12.01: Introduction
- 2008.11.30: goodbye, it's time for another
- 2008.11.29: three models of systems ... or five
- 2008.11.27: serious play in a complex party
- 2008.11.27: it may be a worldview thing
- 2008.11.26: two ships passing ...
- 2008.11.25: Economists
- 2008.11.24: bankers' party story
- 2008.11.23: and who could stand unawed ?
- 2008.11.22: archetypes in the financial meltdown
- 2008.11.21: who will write this stuff ?
- 2008.11.20: small pieces, loosely joined
- 2008.11.19: What is great writing ... in a blog?
- 2008.11.18: Signing in from western Canada
- 2008.11.15: Innovation space
- 2008.11.14: I hate being ill
- 2008.11.13: 100% bling bling
- 2008.11.12: A new path
- 2008.11.11: Music in the air
- 2008.11.10: The paradox of the new
- 2008.11.09: New amsterdam
- 2008.11.08: Innovation paradox
- 2008.11.07: Fresh look needed
- 2008.11.06: The grand future
- 2008.11.05: Numbers 2
- 2008.11.05: Numbers
- 2008.11.04: Apocalyps now?
- 2008.11.03: Tolstoy's guide to complexity
- 2008.11.01: Candle burning out
- 2008.10.31: Hooded figures on the Fens
- 2008.10.29: Memories of a Rock Fan
- 2008.10.27: The Dragon Paradox
- 2008.10.26: The Venerable Bede
- 2008.10.25: We used to mackem, you used to tackem
- 2008.10.23: The three little neuronal correlates
- 2008.10.22: Hive Mind
- 2008.10.22: An orgy of consumption
- 2008.10.21: Sustainability Workshop with a Cognitive Edge
- 2008.10.20: The law of emergent bureaucracy
- 2008.10.19: Bet you can't do this
- 2008.10.19: Take me to the bridge
- 2008.10.02: Cognitive Complexity
- 2008.09.30: Notes after New York
- 2008.09.09: Making connections in the Cog-Edge network.
- 2008.09.01: Signifying the US political rhetoric.
- 2008.08.15: The Sierras
- 2008.07.31: summer in Oakland
- 2008.07.20: Story databases
- 2008.07.14: Reflections on San Francisco
- 2008.07.07: Complexity - okay, but how?
- 2008.07.06: Thirty something
- 2008.07.04: Democracy 2.0
- 2008.06.30: Navigating Complexity – beginning the dialogue
- 2008.06.26: Gardens, Psychology and Leadership
- 2008.06.24: Picking up the thread
- 2008.06.19: An ‘Aha!’ Moment in the Development Sector
- 2008.04.05: Gaussianitis: a subtle (and nearly) universal disease
- 2008.04.03: On average, averages are the exception not the rule
- 2008.03.30: microprojectors: the poverty of predictions!
- 2008.03.27: What do feathers and microwave ovens have in common?
- 2008.03.25: Technological and biological evolution
- 2008.03.23: Chess, change and obliquity
- 2008.03.21: OD - as good as it gets?
- 2008.03.20: Spatulas and learning
- 2008.03.19: Change by staying the same
- 2008.03.18: System failure
- 2008.03.17: Kolb, OODA and real time learning
- 2008.03.13: We’re all learners now
- 2008.02.29: The Weakest Link: Child Protection
- 2008.02.28: Drugs and alcohol
- 2008.02.27: Wednesday 27th February 2008
- 2008.02.25: Belfast Network
- 2008.02.23: Why patients have to be doctors today
- 2008.02.22: Heparin and Beef: The misguided notion of control through inspection, rules and regulations
- 2008.02.21: A web-cam as a probe to explore if you can help patients faster
- 2008.02.20: A non-linear approach to reconciling (business) dilemmas
- 2008.02.19: Do executives really want cost reduction?
- 2008.02.18: “Improvement must be focused on what you want, not on what you don’t want.” Russell Ackoff
- 2008.02.17: The forgotten whole and the flawed focus on the “lonely” parts of an organization.
- 2008.02.16: Can we have some safety please?
- 2008.02.12: ..the main event
- 2008.02.07: Struggle
- 2008.02.06: Positive Deviance
- 2008.02.05: Capability
- 2008.02.04: Authority
- 2008.02.01: Death
- 2008.01.31: Famine
- 2008.01.30: War
- 2008.01.29: Pestilence
- 2008.01.28: Apocalypse
- 2008.01.27: Request for help
- 2008.01.26: How Complaints and Fitness-to-Practice fit into to the government’s scheme
- 2008.01.25: Consultations as part of perverse power
- 2008.01.24: Perverse systems and government control
- 2008.01.24: Is Britain going mad?
- 2008.01.20: Failing to live up to the agreed definition
- 2008.01.18: Symptoms and meaning
- 2008.01.17: Certainty – Uncertainty continued
- 2008.01.16: Certainty and uncertainty
- 2008.01.09: Management performance models
- 2008.01.02: Welcome to Citygroup
- 2007.12.29: Immigration bonds
- 2007.12.28: MSc in Information and Knowledge Management
- 2007.12.15: Allen Blog 2
- 2007.12.10: The Allen Blog
- 2007.12.06: The power of the cross-boundary network
- 2007.12.05: An Organizational Lens
- 2007.12.03: Networks and Innovation
- 2007.12.01: Contextual Design
- 2007.11.26: Social Graphing
- 2007.11.25: The Net Work of Relationships
- 2007.11.23: Fail early and often, my friends—bounce #2
- 2007.11.21: The rise and fall of great brands—bounce #1
- 2007.11.19: Keeping the World in Perspex
- 2007.11.18: The SocioPolitics of the iPhone
- 2007.11.17: Architecture and Complexity
- 2007.11.16: Intuition’s Role in Decisions and Innovation
- 2007.11.15: Excuses Excuses
- 2007.11.13: Mostly Harmless
- 2007.11.13: A Knowledge Worker's Toolbox
- 2007.11.10: Reminiscing
- 2007.11.09: More on Poetry
- 2007.11.08: Leadership, Poetry and Complexity
- 2007.11.07: Trust
- 2007.11.05: Anonymous
- 2007.11.03: Brainbows to Black Holes
- 2007.11.02: On a Red Wing and a Naysayer
- 2007.11.01: The Children's Party
- 2007.10.31: More Security, Less Safety
- 2007.10.30: Listening to Wan Li
- 2007.10.29: The Leaderless Organization
- 2007.10.25: My first anecdote circle
- 2007.10.21: Using a story spine for sensemaking
- 2007.10.19: Explaining the Cynefin Framework
- 2007.10.16: Aboriginal staff induction
- 2007.10.15: How it all began
- 2007.10.13: Starbucks and Complexity
- 2007.10.12: On the value of irresponsibility
- 2007.10.11: Confidence Tricks
- 2007.10.10: Algorithms
- 2007.10.09: Profiting from neural congestion
- 2007.10.08: Trading in Atoms for Bits
- 2007.10.07: The Unprincipled Principle of Least Effort.
- 2007.10.06: Knowledge for it’s own sake?
- 2007.10.05: How Real is the Real Thing?
- 2007.10.04: How to make rows more creative
- 2007.10.03: Codifying sheep in your sleep
- 2007.10.02: What is maturity, anyway?
- 2007.10.01: When is a queue not a queue?
- 2007.09.30: On being what I am not
- 2007.09.28: Exit interviews - a narrative approach
- 2007.09.28: HARNESS-ing knowledge
- 2007.09.26: Selling Complexity & Narrative-based Projects
- 2007.09.24: The Future Backwards
- 2007.09.21: Creating a culture of talent retention
- 2007.09.20: CE methods and literacy constraints
- 2007.09.18: Narrative: Getting more than you bargained for
- 2007.09.18: Reflections on a journey
- 2007.09.14: Automated Partners
- 2007.09.13: The causal power of the last tag
- 2007.09.12: Dismantling a security force
- 2007.09.10: How do we measure experts?
- 2007.09.07: Who needs Cognitive Systems Engineering?
- 2007.09.06: Are we all conservatives?
- 2007.09.04: Stupor Crunchers
- 2007.09.03: Sub-prime quantification
- 2007.09.03: Passing on the baton
- 2007.09.02: Held for ransom – a CEO, Sr. VP, and an engineer
- 2007.08.31: Coffee, shoes, and culture
- 2007.08.28: Landscapes
- 2007.08.25: Facilitating the emergence of cultural indicators
- 2007.08.22: Do bees have workplace morale issues?
- 2007.08.20: An introduction…