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15 years on
Dave SnowdenSo on this day, 15 years ago I wrote my first ever blog post. I was just settling into staff accommodation at Nanyang University (The banner picture I grabbed from Google Street View but I...
Too fast, too soon?
Dave SnowdenThis post picks up on the idea of shallow monogamy in my post of a few days ago looking at some of the obstacles to the adoption of complexity thinking. The other two types were lotus-eating, meaning a...
Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Mοῦσα, πολύπλοκον: some thoughts around trying to translate Cynefin into Greek
Anna PanagiotouUnless this is the first time you have stumbled across this blog by accident, you might have come across the idea of “the Wiki”. This usually does not refer to The Big Wiki but to the Cynefin one,...
Pleaches, Liggers & the ‘C’ words
Dave SnowdenTwo interesting sets of interactions on social media triggered today’s post. One was a distinction made between cutting down a tree and trimming a hedge. That one came from a tweet by Sonja in which...
At the Complexity turn …
Dave SnowdenWe live, as the Chinese curse tells us, in interesting times; and those times, to paraphrase Lincoln require us to both think anew and act anew. As ever any radical change is “piled high with...
Siphonophorae not hybrid (2 of 2)
Dave SnowdenYesterday I raised the idea of using a colony of different organisms that have evolved to collaborate as a single entity as a metaphor for new forms of organisation. In that first post in respect...
Siphonophorae not hybrid (1 of 2)
Dave SnowdenI am indulging myself a little with the title to this post. For those who don’t know it describes a type marine entity which, while it appears to be a single organism is in fact...
Maps or charts?
Dave SnowdenI’ve always talked a lot about maps and the importance of managing the evolutionary potential of the present. I’ve also emphasised the importance of starting journeys with a sense of direction rather than having goals,...
Spotting anomalies
Dave SnowdenFrom time to time I get very frustrated at the ability of consultants and academics to correctly diagnose reasons for failure or success with the benefit of hindsight but fail to realise why the diagnosis...
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