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Design Thinking Needs To Think Bigger

Design thinking is one of the most important ideas of the 21st century. The methodology's impact on product design, how organizations go about solving problems, and how we live our everyday lives has ...

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A Theory of Complexity and its Relevance to Better Decision Making (by Denis Hicks)

Understanding the origins of Complexity would help managers develop better decision making processes under conditions of Social Complexity and Uncertainty.One approach is to appreciate how the mind wo...

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Digital transformation in exponential organisations - Yuri van Geest

Digital transformation in exponential organisationsYuri Van Geest - Co-founder of Singularity University Netherlands and Co-author of "Exponential Organizations

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Natural Born Leadership: Activate your superhero

Ronald Reagan once said "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." The ideology surrounding natural-bo...

Foreign policy in a VUCA world

Recent interviews with leaders from both the public and private sectors paint a picture of a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world (Gowing and Langdon, 2015). In such a world, leader...

A blockchain explanation your parents could understand

It's happening in an increasingly frequent manner: "Jamie, explain this blockchain stuff to me. I've read a bunch of articles and I'm no wiser." The problem with most blockchain explainers is that the...

The Legacy Organizations We Designed 100 Years Ago Are Broken

In the previous post, I outlined a few of the reasons why organizations are forces for evil. With all of those reasons in mind, I'll ask you now to consider that organizations are our only hope, and t...

What is a Complex Adaptive System?

During the last three decades a leap has been made from the application of computing to help scientists 'do' science to the integration of computer science concepts, tools and theorems into the very f...

The Systems View of Life

Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., is a scientist, educator, activist, and author of many international bestsellers that connect conceptual changes in science with broader changes in worldview and values in societ...

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Using complexity-consistent theory for evaluating complex systems

This article draws on two recent traditions in evaluation methodology, one grounded in complexity theory and the other in a realist philosophy of science. Sometimes seen as incompatible, it is argued ...