If Design Thinking is Dead then What Next?

September 21, 2012, 4:05 pm

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An article today really caught my eye. Design Thinking Is A Failed Experiment. So What’s Next? It is written by Bruce Nussbaum, one of Design Thinking’s biggest advocates, and in it he suggests that Design Thinking should really die a dignified death. He quotes from Tim Brown, CEO of Idea and the creator of Design [...]

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What we can all learn from the delightful Slime Mould

October 2, 2012, 7:08 am

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I love slime mould and I use a video of slime mould to teach business students about complexity, emergence and complex emergent organisation. Before I go on, take a look at this video from John Bonner. It’s wonderful: Slime mould is a fascinating organism to study, since it has two distinctive phases in its lifecycle. [...]

The Blind Spot of Generation Flux

October 16, 2012, 10:25 am

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I’ve been reading today two great articles on FastCompany about Generation Flux – the new generation of entrepreneurs who love chaos. Generation Flux is the name coined by Robert Safian, and unlike generations X and Y which were age-related demographics, Generation Flux is a state of mind. Generation Flux has the following characteristics: Chaos seen [...]

Can Generation Flux Learn from Starlings?

October 22, 2012, 6:14 am

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The last article I wrote was titled The Blind Spot of Generation Flux. This was written in reaction to Fast Company’s recent article on what Robert Safian has christened Generation Flux and their ability to thrive in our chaotic world: The Secrets Of Generation Flux BY ROBERT SAFIAN | OCTOBER 15, 2012 How brilliantly managed [...]

Making Sense in a Complex World – References

November 9, 2012, 12:26 am

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I had a very amazing time last night at Sustentare Business School giving an evening lecture Making Sense in a Complex World. In preparation for this I have been writing many articles, and so I thought I would create a new article bringing these together for those of you who are interested. I began by [...]

Braziliance! Chaos and Complexity, Philosophy and Flux Through Brazilian Eyes – Reflections from Sustentare

November 11, 2012, 6:18 am

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I have just returned to São Paulo from Joinville in the south of Brazil where I’ve spent the last three days teaching chaos, complexity and business strategy to the students of Sustentare Escola de Negócios (Sustentare Business School). On Thursday evening I gave my open lecture to the local community Making Sense in a Complex [...]

Changing mental models of complexity: “Now I define complexity as a window on the world”

December 10, 2012, 4:37 am

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As most of you know I very much enjoyed my weekend in Joinville last month where I was teaching MBA students about chaos and complexity theory, and where I also gave an evening lecture to the public “Making sense in a complex world.” One thing I am constantly asked is what value is this to [...]

How the Hoberman Sphere can Help People Think about Complexity

March 4, 2013, 11:24 am

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This is my Hoberman Sphere. It is a quite crazy thing, and from starting as a scrunched up ball, expands into an extremely interestingly connected sphere. You can see me expand and contract there sphere in this video below. It’s interesting talking to people about complexity and then showing them the sphere. It is a [...]

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Holistic Thinking, Creativity and Innovation (a short video in English with Portuguese subtitles)

March 17, 2013, 4:57 am

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Here is a short video of me talking about all the things I often write about here, such as complexity, holistic thinking, creativity, innovation, business models, and Jung’s four ways of knowing (thinking, sensing, feeling and intuition). The video was made as part of the series of short films Conversas de Valor made by Sustentare [...]

O ponto cego da Geração Flux

March 18, 2013, 2:38 am

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Please note – this article The Blind Spot of Generation Flux is also available in English. Hoje tive a oportunidade de ler dois interessantes artigos na FastCompany sobre Geração Flux – A nova geração de empresários que amam o caos. Geração Flux é o nome cunhado por Robert Safian , e ao contrário das gerações [...]

Why people in HR need to become masters of complexity and chaos

April 19, 2013, 8:56 am

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I am currently down in Joinville, a city in the state of Santa Catarina in the south of Brazil. This weekend I will be teaching Complexity and Chaos Theory to an MBA class who are studying Education, Organisational Training and Development at Sustentare Business School. I came down yesterday as I was honoured to be [...]

Holacracy – A New Operating System for Organisations – Who they are, what do they do, and why they are interesting

May 3, 2013, 5:46 pm

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I have been following the guys at Holacracy for quite a while now and I’ve been meaning to jot down some thoughts in a blog for some time. In my lectures in complexity I talk a lot about complex systems in nature, for example the ways in which animals swarm, behave  intelligently, solve intricate problems [...]

The Importance of Framing when Moving to Non-Linear Thinking

May 21, 2013, 5:53 am

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Today and tomorrow we all face a complex design challenge, in transforming existing organisations and economies from a linear to a non-linear economy. We must be able to thrive in a world of constant change and be able to create and lead agile organisations, No Straight Lines has six framing principles a philosophy and practice […]

The Blind Spot of Generation Flux

October 16, 2012, 10:25 am

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I’ve been reading today two great articles on FastCompany about Generation Flux – the new generation of entrepreneurs who love chaos. Generation Flux is the name coined by Robert Safian, and unlike generations X and Y which were age-related demographics, Generation Flux is a state of mind. Generation Flux has the following characteristics: Chaos seen […]

A Review of Santa Fe’s Complexity Explorer MOOC and the Future of Education

June 3, 2013, 5:06 am

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This week I completed an on-line course Complexity Explorer run by the Santa Fe Institute. In this article I will review the course, but in doing so I also want to explore current trends in education. This article will therefore be of interest not only to those of you who may be looking for a […]

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Star Wars and the Intersection of Game Play with Storytelling – Changing Our Collective Stories

June 10, 2013, 10:07 am

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Maria and I finished our Star Wars marathon this weekend when we watched Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. In this episode we witness Anakin Skywalker’s conversion to the dark side, in order to save Padmé from dying, an event he foresaw in a vision. On the Blu Ray release there were many great additional […]

Book Review: The Intuitive Way of Knowing – A Tribute to Brian Goodwin

June 24, 2013, 5:52 am

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I never got the chance to meet Brian Goodwin. In 1996 after he “retired” from a long career in developmental biology, Brian came to Schumacher College where he would launch the unique Holistic Science MSc programme. I applied to the college in 2008, and had taken a couple of months off in the summer of […]

White Paper: Changing mental models of complexity in Brazilian MBA students – a high impact approach

September 2, 2013, 10:59 am

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I am pleased to be able to announce a new Transition Consciousness white paper: Changing mental models of complexity in Brazilian MBA students – a high impact approach via Goethe, complexity science and the dynamical way of seeing of Henri Bortoft Abstract Complexity Science and chaos theory are now starting to emerge as serious branches […]

Cynefin evolves

October 16, 2013, 4:42 pm

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I have had an interest in David Snowden’s Cynefin framework for understanding complexity for some years now, and so it has been really interesting to read his blogs on how he is updating the model and adding a finer layer of granularity. He has made the latest versions available on Flickr under a creative commons […]

Announcing our new book – Holonomics: Business Where People and Planet Matter

November 4, 2013, 3:00 pm

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Both Maria and I are very happy to be able to announce our new book Holonomics: Business Where People and Planet Matter. It is being published by Floris Books from Edinburgh, and will be launched in April of next year. Holonomics came about after many requests for recommended texts from our students and clients who […]