My projects have got my full attention again and so I am signing off on the Guest Blog. Many thanks for the opportunity to address the CE community and for the commentators’ responses and your perhaps uncommented attention. It looks like I may even have made some interesting contacts. Our next contact with Dave will […]
I’d like to comment on Keith’s comment about my notion in my first guest post that ideas in themselves are empty. I agree that many ideas lack substance not because they are empty in themselves, but because they have not been fully thought through. Even when they have, however, they remain just ideas. There was […]
Many thanks to readers of the Guest Blog for initial comments (I write better when I have someone to talk to!) I too have been getting questioning looks when I present enthusiastically some insights from complexity theory to clients. To me, at least, it all makes perfect sense, and it takes a serious act of […]
In a new Vanity Fair article on the role of the Germans in the international financial crisis, Michael Lewis, the author of the trenchant Big Short, reports on an interview road trip he takes to try to understand the character of the people who were on the other side of the Wall Street bets that […]
In my role as change manager, people in a company inevitably talk to me about what is not working in the organization and their frustration at the perception that obvious fixes are not recognized or implemented. External consultants often have their biggest value simply in not being part of the organization. My job is to […]
I have finally gotten around to reading a lovely novel recommended to me by a client in the financial business last year, called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, and written from the perspective of an autistic boy. In the seminar where I met the client, we had been […]
I’m looking forward to blogging on Cognitive Edge for the next couple of weeks, not knowing what to expect, and anticipating the resonance from the community. So I think I’ll start with a bit of philosophical autobiography and see how you respond. One reason I was drawn to Cognitive Edge is the experimental spirit of […]
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