Monthly Archives: January 2012

Change: Intuition, Understanding and Knowledge

Continuing our series on change. We live in an extraordinarily complex, post-digital world, where interdependencies and interconnections multiply at an ever-increasing speed. The cause-effect relationships that govern the world as we experience it create a super intricate ‘network of networks’ … Continue reading

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Change: Control vs. Vision in our decisions to change

Continuing our series on Change. In our previous post, we looked at the fundamental conflict underlying change; that conflict is between our need for control on the one hand, and our need for vision on the other. The need for … Continue reading

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Change: Why do people find it so hard (and what can we do about it)?

In our next few posts we will be looking at the difficulty we have to change, and how we can achieve change and improve our systemic intelligence. Change is the most unchanging part of our existence: • our pancreas replaces … Continue reading

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Network of Networks (continued): The Intrinsic Risk of Super Hubs

When an enterprise is successful and grows in size, there is inevitably an increase in the number and quality of interdependencies, i.e. exchanges with other parts of the network of enterprises it is part of. These can include information, money, … Continue reading

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Network of Networks: Avoiding Catastrophe Through a Systemic Vision of Enterprises

We’re back for 2012, kicking off with a look at the ‘too big to fail’ fallacy from a scientific point of view this week. We’ll be following this up with a series on why people find it so hard to … Continue reading

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