Science for Change Agents, Innovators & Entrepreneurs. Day 3
Complex systems in nature
Self-organisation & entropy
Chaos Theory & Modelling Chaos
Scale-free Networks & Power Laws
Designing resilient and self-organising human systems
The Cynefin Codel: Change Making in Simple, Complicated, Complex and Chaotic real-world contexts
MASTERCLASS FOR KAOS PILOTS, DENMARK
Understanding complexity - The Cynefin frameworkKeith De La Rue
A brief overview of the Cynefin framework, with discussion on complexity, and why it is important to understand how organisations work in order to implement change.
An overview of Systems Thinking, and how to apply the ideas of Complexity Theory to management of systems, with the results being called "Complexity Thinking".
This presentation is part of the Management 3.0 course created by Jurgen Appelo.
http://www.management30.com/course-introduction/
Cynefin and Complexity: A Gentle IntroductionJocko Selberg
NYC Lean Kanban Meetup - Presentation October 28, 2015 - Jocko Selberg
What do we really mean when we say that a problem is "complex"? Do we simply mean to say that a given problem is extremely complicated, or are complex problems something fundamentally different? We typically assume we are operating in a deterministic, ordered system where we can identify a cause and effect relationship, when in actuality we are often operating in a non-deterministic complex system, where these relationships can not be known in advance, if at all. How can we sense which context we are operating in and how might we act under varying degrees of uncertainty.
Complexity Theory is a term used to describe a field that is focused on the study of complex systems. Complexity science is not a single theory— it encompasses multiple theoretical frameworks, seeking answers to some of the fundamental questions about continuously changing, dynamic systems.
Cynefin is a framework developed by Dave Snowden and Cognitive Edge which seeks to helps us "make sense of the world, such that we can act in it". By understanding the fundamental differences between directed (ordered) systems and emergent (unordered) systems, we can modify our approach to match the context of the problem we are facing. The Cynefin framework takes a science based approach to dealing with critical business issues, drawing from anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory to improve decision making.
Complexity Theory and Cynefin have an undeserved reputation for being difficult to grasp. In this introductory talk we will break down these approaches so that we can effectively use them to help us to better act under conditions of uncertainty.
About Jocko Selberg
Jocko Selberg is currently a Project Manager for The Nielsen Company with over 15 years experience in the interactive industry. He is a non-sectarian agilist and does not own a TV.
I am very fond of complexity thinking these days. It provides a refreshing alternative for people planning interventions and conducting evaluation in humanitarian and development aid.
Understanding complexity - The Cynefin frameworkKeith De La Rue
A brief overview of the Cynefin framework, with discussion on complexity, and why it is important to understand how organisations work in order to implement change.
An overview of Systems Thinking, and how to apply the ideas of Complexity Theory to management of systems, with the results being called "Complexity Thinking".
This presentation is part of the Management 3.0 course created by Jurgen Appelo.
http://www.management30.com/course-introduction/
Cynefin and Complexity: A Gentle IntroductionJocko Selberg
NYC Lean Kanban Meetup - Presentation October 28, 2015 - Jocko Selberg
What do we really mean when we say that a problem is "complex"? Do we simply mean to say that a given problem is extremely complicated, or are complex problems something fundamentally different? We typically assume we are operating in a deterministic, ordered system where we can identify a cause and effect relationship, when in actuality we are often operating in a non-deterministic complex system, where these relationships can not be known in advance, if at all. How can we sense which context we are operating in and how might we act under varying degrees of uncertainty.
Complexity Theory is a term used to describe a field that is focused on the study of complex systems. Complexity science is not a single theory— it encompasses multiple theoretical frameworks, seeking answers to some of the fundamental questions about continuously changing, dynamic systems.
Cynefin is a framework developed by Dave Snowden and Cognitive Edge which seeks to helps us "make sense of the world, such that we can act in it". By understanding the fundamental differences between directed (ordered) systems and emergent (unordered) systems, we can modify our approach to match the context of the problem we are facing. The Cynefin framework takes a science based approach to dealing with critical business issues, drawing from anthropology, neuroscience and complex adaptive systems theory to improve decision making.
Complexity Theory and Cynefin have an undeserved reputation for being difficult to grasp. In this introductory talk we will break down these approaches so that we can effectively use them to help us to better act under conditions of uncertainty.
About Jocko Selberg
Jocko Selberg is currently a Project Manager for The Nielsen Company with over 15 years experience in the interactive industry. He is a non-sectarian agilist and does not own a TV.
I am very fond of complexity thinking these days. It provides a refreshing alternative for people planning interventions and conducting evaluation in humanitarian and development aid.
What (Else) Can Agile Learn From ComplexityJurgen Appelo
How can complexity science be applied to software development? This presentation shows you which scientific concepts can be mapped to agile software development.
http://www.noop.nl
http://www.jurgenappelo.com
A set of slides initially designed to help students revise and consolidate their understanding of complexity theory and its application to work and our management of work.
As part of the highly successful lunchtime talk series, the contemporary Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) food-for-thought programme, Eliat Aram, the Institute’s CEO introduced staff and guests to some key concepts and philosophical underpinning of Complexity theory and its implications to understanding organisational praxis.
So, Now You're An Agilist, What's Next?Jurgen Appelo
Doing projects better doesn't stop at agile. In this presentation I attempt to distill new advances in software development from the field of complexity science.
Complexity science is the study of complex systems, like ecosystems, biological systems, economic systems, etc. "Complexity science" is the scientific approach to "systems thinking". It can be used to understand and explain why complex systems behave the way they do. Ken Schwaber, Jim Highsmith and other experts have explained in their books that a lot of agile concepts have been copied from the study of complex systems. However, agile software development has not covered all there is to learn.
I will show why practices must be agile (self-organized) *and* formal (controlled), why any software development method is doomed to fail, why managing scope is a too simplistic interpretation of the principle of “embracing change”, why most process improvement initiatives are linear and wrong, and why some sets of practices will be show chaotic behavior when combined.
The Big-Ass View on Competence (and Communication)Jurgen Appelo
This is an alternative version of "On the Road to Competence", with some stuff added about organizational structure.
http://www.noop.nl
http://www.jurgenappelo.com
Managing Agility: From Complex To SimpleJurgen Appelo
This is my contribution to the Pecha Kucha at the Business of Software 2009 conference. Most slides are picked from my other presentations, and there's little to no text in it.
It probably won't be useful to anyone without a video. Still, I include it here for sake of completeness.
At a recent ‘lunchtime talk’ session, , Eliat Aram, the Institute’s CEO attempted a second ‘bite’ into Complexity theory, this time introducing Staff and Guests to the ‘complex responsive processes of relating’ perspective developed by Prof. Stacey, Prof. Shaw and Prof. Griffin and its implications to intervention design and organisational development work.
When building digital products and services, we are designing complex systems.We need to think the customer experience through on several channels, figure out the system architecture, gain understanding through data and research, decide what to iterate... - not easy, but fun!
In this keynote talk given at Agile Cambridge 2016, Johanna introduces core systems thinking principles for designing better services, discussed how data and feedback mechanisms help us understand what is going on in a system, and addressed the challenge of bringing about change in a system.
Slides for "Intro to Systems Thinking" workshop. Session details and resources available here: http://pwoessner.wikispaces.com/Introduction+to+Systems+Thinking
User research, analytics, hypotheses and experiments: we are focused on gaining understanding through data, validating that our interventions bring about the (user) behaviour we desire. We design systems, the systems we design interact with other systems, and it’s all getting awfully complex. Can we truly understand what’s going on?
In this talk, Johanna will introduce you to core principles of systems thinking, and discuss how they relate to our work as designers of products, services, companies. What methods and tools can we employ to make sense of systems? How do we enable users to form a mental model of a system - and what role are we designing for our users?
Expect to walk away with some systems theory, some practical take-aways, and the insight that the system is always one step ahead of you.
Gigamap example by Manuela Aguirre: https://www.slideshare.net/ManuelaAguirre/policy-support-full-presentation
In this presentation you will learn about design tools and techniques to solve wicked problems, using Systems Thinking.
Systems Thinking looks at the whole of a system rather than focusing on its individual parts, to better understand complex phenomena. Systems Thinking contrasts with analytic thinking: you solve problems by going deeper, by looking at the greater whole of a system and the relations between its elements, rather than solving individual problems in a linear way via simple cause and effect explanations.
You can apply Systems Thinking principles in different situations: to understand how large organisations function and design for the enterprise (e.g. when you are trying to revamp a large intranet), but also to solve social problems and issues (e.g. unemployment with disadvantaged youth or mobility in larger cities). So basically whenever there is complexity and conflict (of interest) in your project, Systems Thinking will be helpful.
After an introduction to Systems Thinking and its core concepts, we will first explain and practice a few techniques that you as a designer can apply to better understand complex systems, for example creating a System Map and drawing Connection Circles. In the second part of the workshop, we will introduce techniques that help you shape solutions, for example using Paradoxical Thinking for ideation and writing ‘What-if’ Scenarios.
Presented at EuroIA 2015 with Koen Peters.
Folien meines Vortrags von der OOP 2015. Im Vortrag wird die Verbindung zwischen Sprache und Denken untersucht und anhand sprachwissenschaftlicher Forschung analysiert.
What (Else) Can Agile Learn From ComplexityJurgen Appelo
How can complexity science be applied to software development? This presentation shows you which scientific concepts can be mapped to agile software development.
http://www.noop.nl
http://www.jurgenappelo.com
A set of slides initially designed to help students revise and consolidate their understanding of complexity theory and its application to work and our management of work.
As part of the highly successful lunchtime talk series, the contemporary Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) food-for-thought programme, Eliat Aram, the Institute’s CEO introduced staff and guests to some key concepts and philosophical underpinning of Complexity theory and its implications to understanding organisational praxis.
So, Now You're An Agilist, What's Next?Jurgen Appelo
Doing projects better doesn't stop at agile. In this presentation I attempt to distill new advances in software development from the field of complexity science.
Complexity science is the study of complex systems, like ecosystems, biological systems, economic systems, etc. "Complexity science" is the scientific approach to "systems thinking". It can be used to understand and explain why complex systems behave the way they do. Ken Schwaber, Jim Highsmith and other experts have explained in their books that a lot of agile concepts have been copied from the study of complex systems. However, agile software development has not covered all there is to learn.
I will show why practices must be agile (self-organized) *and* formal (controlled), why any software development method is doomed to fail, why managing scope is a too simplistic interpretation of the principle of “embracing change”, why most process improvement initiatives are linear and wrong, and why some sets of practices will be show chaotic behavior when combined.
The Big-Ass View on Competence (and Communication)Jurgen Appelo
This is an alternative version of "On the Road to Competence", with some stuff added about organizational structure.
http://www.noop.nl
http://www.jurgenappelo.com
Managing Agility: From Complex To SimpleJurgen Appelo
This is my contribution to the Pecha Kucha at the Business of Software 2009 conference. Most slides are picked from my other presentations, and there's little to no text in it.
It probably won't be useful to anyone without a video. Still, I include it here for sake of completeness.
At a recent ‘lunchtime talk’ session, , Eliat Aram, the Institute’s CEO attempted a second ‘bite’ into Complexity theory, this time introducing Staff and Guests to the ‘complex responsive processes of relating’ perspective developed by Prof. Stacey, Prof. Shaw and Prof. Griffin and its implications to intervention design and organisational development work.
When building digital products and services, we are designing complex systems.We need to think the customer experience through on several channels, figure out the system architecture, gain understanding through data and research, decide what to iterate... - not easy, but fun!
In this keynote talk given at Agile Cambridge 2016, Johanna introduces core systems thinking principles for designing better services, discussed how data and feedback mechanisms help us understand what is going on in a system, and addressed the challenge of bringing about change in a system.
Slides for "Intro to Systems Thinking" workshop. Session details and resources available here: http://pwoessner.wikispaces.com/Introduction+to+Systems+Thinking
User research, analytics, hypotheses and experiments: we are focused on gaining understanding through data, validating that our interventions bring about the (user) behaviour we desire. We design systems, the systems we design interact with other systems, and it’s all getting awfully complex. Can we truly understand what’s going on?
In this talk, Johanna will introduce you to core principles of systems thinking, and discuss how they relate to our work as designers of products, services, companies. What methods and tools can we employ to make sense of systems? How do we enable users to form a mental model of a system - and what role are we designing for our users?
Expect to walk away with some systems theory, some practical take-aways, and the insight that the system is always one step ahead of you.
Gigamap example by Manuela Aguirre: https://www.slideshare.net/ManuelaAguirre/policy-support-full-presentation
In this presentation you will learn about design tools and techniques to solve wicked problems, using Systems Thinking.
Systems Thinking looks at the whole of a system rather than focusing on its individual parts, to better understand complex phenomena. Systems Thinking contrasts with analytic thinking: you solve problems by going deeper, by looking at the greater whole of a system and the relations between its elements, rather than solving individual problems in a linear way via simple cause and effect explanations.
You can apply Systems Thinking principles in different situations: to understand how large organisations function and design for the enterprise (e.g. when you are trying to revamp a large intranet), but also to solve social problems and issues (e.g. unemployment with disadvantaged youth or mobility in larger cities). So basically whenever there is complexity and conflict (of interest) in your project, Systems Thinking will be helpful.
After an introduction to Systems Thinking and its core concepts, we will first explain and practice a few techniques that you as a designer can apply to better understand complex systems, for example creating a System Map and drawing Connection Circles. In the second part of the workshop, we will introduce techniques that help you shape solutions, for example using Paradoxical Thinking for ideation and writing ‘What-if’ Scenarios.
Presented at EuroIA 2015 with Koen Peters.
Folien meines Vortrags von der OOP 2015. Im Vortrag wird die Verbindung zwischen Sprache und Denken untersucht und anhand sprachwissenschaftlicher Forschung analysiert.
How cynefin model improves lean implementationPierre E. NEIS
Implementing Lean is a journey witch encourters several pitfalls related to changing paradigms.
Lean aim is linking the Product to the Market and change your structure as a production system. But this is not all what lean provides.
Organisations are a living system with a purpose built on people, processes and tools. The big picture always looks amazing and since the beginning blockings are emerging and question rises up: why is the process not applied? What about predictability? How can I engage the stakeholders? Why are people lost?
The Cynefin model, designed for cognitive people interactions highlight those blockings and help to design a way out.
This presentation will show you an example of a Lean Implementation
Digitale Zusammenarbeit verstehen
Reifegrade
Führung
Agilität im System
Mut und Regeln
Effizienz - digital neu definiert
Wirkungsgrad durch Erkennbarkeit
Relevanz erkennen und erzeugen
WeiterBildung
Twitter als Bildungskanal
#MutAnfall
From the CNI Fall 2014 conference in Washington:
http://www.cni.org/topics/digital-libraries/developments-in-digital-repositories/
The National Library of Wales has developed a large number of digital resources (including newspapers, archives, manuscripts and photographs) that are freely available as a national digital public library for Wales. Development of this material has involved research and innovation in all aspects of the digital life cycle, and development of an underlying digital infrastructure, to support the creation of open and sustainable digital collections that can be used, and re-used, by the widest range of stakeholders. Central to this has been the development of digital content in collaboration with national and international partners. This presentation will discuss this national context for Cynefin, a recent project developed in collaboration with the Archives and Records Council Wales (ARCW) and funded by the UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund. The project will digitize over a thousand tithe maps covering 95% of Wales between the period 1838 and 1947. The project has explored new approaches to crowd sourcing to geo locate the tithe maps and transcribe related apportionments, and also to develop links between content in the collections, linking location, ownership, land use and value. The project has also had to find innovative ways to digitize large tithe maps, including the use of an automated tripod head originally developed to capture panoramic landscapes and the construction of a specifically designed wall to ensure a consistent horizontal distance from the camera. The digital images have been ingested into a Fedora repository and shared using the IIIF standard. The crowd-sourcing element will be released to the public at the beginning of November 2014 and the initial results of the uptake and engagement of volunteers will be discussed in the presentation. The digital preservation of the tithe maps, apportionments and the crowd-sourced data will present future challenges, and approaches to these issues will also be discussed. This project is a potential model for other institutions to leverage the resources of the crowd to produce a useful and enduring digital humanities resource.
http://chicagocollectionsconsortium.org/
http://cynefinblog.archiveswales.org.uk/?p=195
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/home
http://cymru1914.org/en
Cynefin - A Framework for Leaders in an Ever-Changing WorldIlio Krumins-Beens
Cynefin is a sense-making framework developed by David Snowden and others, which is currently maintained by Cognitive Edge (http://cognitive-edge.com/). I believe the framework can be extremely helpful to leaders cope with ever changing dynamics in their organization, as their default leadership style will not work best in all situations.
This presentation is one I use to explain Cynefin to others, but it is largely based on the work of others.
I leverage the following resources:
Snowden, David J. and Mary E. Boone, A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making, Harvard Business Review, November 2007
Snowden, David Introduction to the Cynefin Framwork (:08 video) Cognitive Edge Website, Oct 29, 2011
Snowden, David It's Not Good Enough to be Right (1:02 video) LKCE12
Snowden, David Keynote of XP 2012 (Part 1 (:38), Part 2 (:40)) May 2012
Snowden, David Practice without sound theory will not scale (1:08 video presentation)
Kurtz, C.F., and D. J. Snowden, The New Dynamics of Strategy: Sense-Making in a Complex and Complicated World, IBM Systems Journal, Vol 42, No 3., 2003
Cognitive Edge Blog on Cynefin
Ballestrin, Kim. Applying Cynefin and Agile LAST Conference, July 27, 2012 (Deck and Video)
Haight, Cameron. Leverage the Cynefin Framework to Improve IT Operations and Decision Making, Gartner: 2012
Perline, Joseph. On Understanding Software Agility— A Social Complexity Point Of View, E:CO Issue Vol. 13 Nos. 1-2 2011
Neis, Pierre How Cynefin Model Improves Lean Implementation, Slideshare Oct 21, 2012
Parallel to our global roll our of flexibility (Mobile Work, Part Time and Flextime and Sabbatical) I designed an engagement campaign where we involved all our employees using enterprise social media. Videos will follow soon.
How do you make a choice when possible solutions vary? How do you behave in an extraordinary situation? How do you structure complex activities?
All these situations incorporate environment and context exploration along with feasibility assessment. They call it sensemaking.
This webinar is dedicated to Cynefin sensemaking framework and it’s real life usage examples in different aspects of Agile activities.
During the webinar we will cover:
* Cynefin sensemaking framework (domains, expected behaviors)
* Using Cynefin framework for splitting User Stories
* Using Cynefin framework on retrospectives
* Using Cynefin framework for collaboration with company environment
TRANSFORMATIONSWERK REPORT 2016 - Studie zur digitalen Transformation der Wir...Ingo Stoll
Was braucht die deutsche Wirtschaft für die digitale Transformation? Was denken die einzelnen Unternehmensbereiche (Unternehmensleitung, Marketing, IT, Personal, Vertrieb und Unternehmenskommunikation)? Wer sind die Treiber und wer die Getriebenen?
Die bereichs- und branchenübergreifende Studie von neuwaerts und doubleYUU untersucht die Einschätzungen, Bedarfe und Herausforderungen der digitalen Transformation. Die 1.060 Teilnehmer aus Mittelstand und Konzernen geben im TRANSFORMATIONSWERK REPORT 2016 erstmals wertvolle Einblicke in das Zusammenspiel der verschiedenen Unternehmensbereiche beim Querschnittsprojekt "Digitale Transformation". Die Publikation wird ergänzt um 12 Leitgedanken führender Köpfe der Deutschen Transformationsindustrie sowie Praxis-Statements verantwortlicher "CDOs" und "Heads of Digital Transformation".
The world as we know it is growing more complex. As we automate away those things that can be easily repeated, we leave ourselves with ever more challenging work. The way we've worked in the past won't necessarily work for today's problems¦ or will it? Join Diane and Doc as they explore dimensions of complexity in software development and look at how teams and leaders might adjust their behaviors (and the software they create) based on the complexity of the problem at hand.
This hands-on, interactive workshop will provide a practical introduction to Cynefin (a sense-making framework for complexity) and show how it applies to the work we do every day as creators of software. You'll map your own work to Cynefin and learn about applicable management styles and optimal team interactions for each of the Cynefin contexts.
Enabling an Organization for the digital age - Change, Social, CultureHarald Schirmer
Präsentation (größtenteils Deutsch) für meinen Vortrag bei http://www.intelligencedays.de/hr am 17.02.2016 in Berlin.
Veränderung verstehen, NeuGier wecken, Kompetenz aufbauen, Netzwerke aktivieren, Lebenslang Lernen - Working Out Loud. Vortrag geht bis Folie 18 > Anhang ist zur Vertiefung und anschließenden Diskussion - auch unter http://www.harald-schirmer.de
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What is NLP? (Neurolinguistic Programming)Jacob Laguerre
This presentation is about Neurolinguistic Programming or NLP for short. NLP was founded by John Grinder and Richard Bandler, back in the 1970s and has since, spread all over the world. Richard has defined NLP as "an attitude, backed by a methodology, that leaves behind a trail of techniques". It is through the use of this novel technology that average people learn how to "run their own brains" and create a subjective reality that enables them to become all that they can be.
Check out my website at https://www.pciinstitute.net for more awesome content
The Most Important Skill Set in Mental Health
CENTRAL ISSUES
WE DISSECTED 54,633 EXAMINATIONS TO REALIZE WHAT TRULY ASSISTS INDIVIDUALS WITH ROLLING OUT AN IMPROVEMENT.
THE MOST WELL-KNOWN PATHWAY OF PROGRESS WAS MENTAL ADAPTABILITY AND CARE ABILITIES.
The Science of Attention and Engagement for LearningJulie Dirksen
A number of myths persist about people’s allegedly ever-shortening attention spans—but what does the science say? Neuroscience, behavioral economics, and consumer psychology all offer insights into how we manage and allocate attention.
Life and Nature is understood from a realm beyond genes and matter. Life is understood to be some thing more than genes and information but a process of enfolding and unfolding of light and living knowledge. Nature is understood as Conscious and Intelligent Living System, capable of self –organization.
SYSTEMS ORIENTED LEADERSHIP - 16 Crucial Skills for Leaders who put the Syste...AbuSyeedRaihan
When we look at the current status of leadership on our planet, we hear, all over the world, a cry for a different type of leadership.
People are searching for a type of
leadership that moves away from a control-based paradigm and
focuses on solutions for today’s problems, and has a forward-thinking passion for mankind’s evolution.
Security Is Like An Onion, That's Why It Makes You CryMichele Chubirka
Why is the security industry so full of fail? We spend millions of dollars on firewalls, IPS, IDS, DLP, professional penetration tests and assessments, vulnerability and compliance tools and at the end of the day, the weakest link is the user and his or her inability to make the right choices. It's enough to make a security engineer cry. The one thing you can depend upon in an enterprise is that many of our users, even with training, will still make the wrong choices. They still click on links they shouldn't, respond to phishing scams, open documents without thinking, post too much information on Twitter and Facebook, use their pet's name as passwords, etc'. But what if this isn't because users hate us or are too stupid? What if all our complaints about not being heard and our instructions regarding the best security practices have more to do with our failure to understand modern neuroscience and the human mind's resistance to change?
The quest to create artificial general intelligence has largely followed a “brain in a vat” approach, aiming to build a disembodied mind that can carry out the kinds of logical reasoning and inference that humans are capable of, usually demonstrated through language. This approach may some day pay off, but it’s not how nature did it. Intelligence did not evolve to solve abstract problems – it evolved to adaptively control behaviour in the real world. Living organisms are agents that can act, for their own reasons, in pursuit of their own goals – most fundamentally, to persist as a self through time. By charting the evolution of agency, we can see the origins of action and the concomitant emergence of behavioural control systems; the transition from pragmatic perception-action couplings to more and more internalised semantic representations; and, on our lineage, a trajectory of increasing cognitive depth and ever more sophisticated mapping and modelling of the world and the self. The resultant accumulation of causal knowledge grants the ability to simulate more complex scenarios, to predict and plan over longer timeframes, to optimise over more competing goals at once, and ultimately to exercise conscious rational control over behaviour. In this way, intelligent entities – agents – evolved, with greater and greater autonomy, flexibility, and causal power in the world. To realise intelligence in artificial systems, it may similarly be necessary to develop embodied, situated agents, with meaning and understanding grounded in relation to real-world goals, actions, and consequences.
Keynote for Conscious Life Expo introducing a revolutionary new framework that drives breakthroughs towards thriving in any human system. It's a comprehensive integration of science and wisdom focused on encouraging transformational change.
Presentation given at launch of Wisdompreneurs (Wisdom 2.0) community in San Francisco, Feb 2016 on the unique history of how business evolved into share-holder / casino capitalism from a core Christian / Western idea of the individual Self. Then we look at the changes in Operating System (O.S.) of human evolution and what the networked economy means for hierarchical / market-based corporations. We finish by looking at a potential paradigm shift in business when we place love / unity not separation at the heart of the concept of enterprise / business and look at examples (from the Quakers to B Corps) that show this to be a viable possibility.
How to use commercial innovation techniques - particularly strategic breakthrough innovation - in the public sector; and how to lead innovation in government and non-profits. Includes an introduction to Breakthrough Biodynamics. Taught at SciencePo Feb 2015
The latest neuroscience of the masculine and what it means to be a man. The difference between the brains of men and women, neuropeptides and hormones like dopamine and testosterone, what brings men to life and opportunities for brands to empower men.
A keynote to NHS Leadership Academy on how to lead for impact in complex systems and a networked reality. Includes insight on breakthrough innovation, the science of breakthrough, the neurobiology of breakthrough and our Breakthrough Innovation Engine.
Brief history of science from Aristotle, Galileo, Bacon, Descartes to Max Weber, Foucault
Theories of Science: Induction, deduction
Critical thinking of science
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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4. TODAY
COMPLEXITY
WORK WITH CYNEFIN MODEL, UNDERSTAND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
THE FIELDS OF SIMPLE, COMPLICATED, COMPLEX AND CHAOS AND HOW
THERE IS DIFFERENT METHODS TO APPLY WHEN YOU WORK IN THE
DIFFERENT FIELDS.
BEING ABLE TO ANALYZE AND UNDERSTAND IF A PROBLEM IS IN THE
VARIOUS FIELDS
23. “If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not
because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It
is because we biologists have yet to understand how to
think about systems governed simultaneously by two
sources of order, Yet who seeing the snowflake, who
seeing simple lipid molecules cast adrift in water
forming themselves into cell-like hollow lipid vesicles,
who seeing the potential for the crystallization of life in
swarms of reacting molecules, who seeing the stunning
order for free in networks linking tens upon tens of
thousands of variables, can fail to entertain a central
thought: if ever we are to attain a final theory in
biology, we will surely, surely have to understand the
commingling of self-organization and selection. We will
have to see that we are the natural expressions of a
deeper order. Ultimately, we will discover in our
creation myth that we are expected after all.”
STUART KAUFFMAN
44. EDGE OF
STASIS INSTABILITY
CHAOS
DIVERSITY LOW OPTIMAL HIGH
FLOW OF
LOW OPTIMAL HIGH
INFO
RICHNESS OF
LOW OPTIMAL HIGH
CONNECTIONS
ANXIETY LOW OPTIMAL HIGH
POWER HIGH OPTIMAL LOW
50. “Thinking more deeply about
institutions and complexity raises major
dilemmas for development
interventions. On the one hand,
tackling poverty, achieving social
justice and protecting the environment
clearly require institutional
transformation. On the other,
institutions cannot be effectively
changed in a neatly planned, top-down
manner.”
JIM WOODHILL
51. “Don’t disturb complicated systems
that have been around for a very long
time. We don’t understand their logic…
Leave it the way we found it, regardless
of scientific ‘evidence’.”
N. NICHOLAS TALEB
52. REMEMBER
DYNAMIC, RICH INTERACTIONS
DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DIFFERENT LEVELS
FEEDBACK LOOPS
NON-LINEAR, UNPREDICTABLE
EMERGENT CHARACTERISTICS
SMALL CHANGES CAN HAVE LARGE IMPACTS
HISTORY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
56. “Often the only way to improve a
complex system is to probe its limits by
forcing it to fail in various ways.”
KEVIN KELLY
57. The Cynefin Model
Complex Complicated
Known causes and effects
Understandable root causes
Use good practice
Use emergent practice
Focus on co-operation
(harness principles)
Focus on collaboration
Sense. Analyze. Respond
Sense. Explore. Respond
Disorder
Chaotic Simple
Predictable causes and effects
Unknowable causes / effects
Use best-practice
Use new practice
Focus on co-ordination
Focus on co-creation
Explore. Sense. Respond Sense. Categorize. Respond
58. BRAINSTORM PROBLEMS FOR EACH PART
OF THE CYNEFIN MODEL
WHAT KIND OF INTERVENTIONS /
APPROACHES?
59. “Part of reinventing the sacred is to heal...injuries that
we hardly know we suffer. If we are members of a
universe in which emergence and ceaseless creativity
abound, if we take that creativity as a sense of God we
can share, the resulting sense of the sacredness of all of
life and the planet can help orient our lives beyond the
consumerism and commodification the industrialized
world now lives, heal the split between reason and faith,
heal the split between science and the humanities, heal
the want of spirituality, heal the wound derived from
the false reductionist belief that we live in a world of
fact without values, and help us jointly build a global
ethic. These are what is at stake in finding a new
scientific worldview that enables us to reinvent the
sacred.”
STUART KAUFFMAN
61. WHAT KIND OF CONTEXT ARE YOU
WORKING IN?
HOW DOES THIS IMPACT YOUR POTENTIAL
INTERVENTIONS?
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR YEAR 1
IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY?
62. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FRANK BARRETT & DAVID COOPERRIDER (AI)
PETER SENGE (SYSTEMS)
STANFORD ENCYLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY
WIKIPEDIA
MICHELLE HOLLIDAY (COMPLEXITY)
BELTOWSKA & RAE (SYSTEMS IMAGES)
AIDAN WARD & RICHARD VERYARD (SYSTEMS)
RICHARD SEEL (COMPLEXITY)