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Why change? Part 2

In Part 2 we look at how cause-and-effect reasoning and acknowledging our ‘cognitive constraints’ are crucial in understanding why, when, what and how to change. Dr. W. Edwards Deming used to warn about the consequences (cause and effect) of seemingly … Continue reading

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Why Change? Part 1

In our previous post we looked at tools for the three phases of change (What to Change, What to Change to and How to Make the Change Happen). This post is in response to several comments that asked about the … Continue reading

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Change: Tools for Thinking, Planning and Enacting Change

Continuing our series on Change. In our previous post, we mentioned the three phases of change: what to change what to change to how to make the change happen For each of these phases, there is a powerful Thinking Process … Continue reading

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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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Are we really just creatures of media hype?

Today we continue our journey into systemic solutions for sustainable innovation with a piece by Larry Dries, JD a team member who is not a Mac user and who therefore has the necessary emotional detachment to write this piece. I … Continue reading

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