I have joined Patagonia Action Works (Catchafire) as a volunteer and will be offering executive coaching and leadership support to organisations working for environmental impact. This is a way of giving back through my craft, helping mission driven groups clarify thinking, strengthen decisions, and make progress on what matters.
In a world of volatility and uncertainty, traditional planning falls short. This article explores how pilots, probes, and experiments help leaders navigate complexity, build resilience, and foster curiosity. Learn practical ways to turn uncertainty into a learning advantage through small, safe-to-fail actions that reveal what truly works.
Just & regenerative business guide from Forum for The Future: https://www.forumforthefuture.org/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=03382fe2-0bf6-42c0-9d2c-fbaa962a78f0
Link to Medium post: https://benzweibelson.medium.com/the-semiotic-square-and-systemic-logic-a-technique-for-multiple-futures-206b996cf30f
LINK to an article on "How to Assess Uncertainty in an Unpredictable World"
» The IPK Design Kit — Read on www.i-p-k.co.za/ipk-design-kit/
Cultural Maturity – A Blog for the Future — Read on culturalmaturityblog.net/
Maturity Mapping overview and its connection to cynefin and Wardley mapping
Save for later" The picture is used by a Complexity advocate to conjecture that complex systems cannot be managed. This is not correct, as many of the claims made by self-proclaimed complexity experts. I've seen this scene of flocking birds first hand. It... — Read on herdingcats.typepad.com/my_weblog/2020/03/a-compendium-of-managing-compelx-systyems.html
PDF of “Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis" guide from Dave Snowden.
Cynefin.net a resourcing for sensemaking tools and techniques: — Read on wiki.sensemaker-suite.com/index.php/Main_Page
Short description of a sense-making canvas
Link to article on Customer value charting
Link to a stakeholder mapping process
An exploration of the value of models
Holding for reading... — Read on systemschangeeducation.com/portfolio-item/welcome/
Link to the issue on Sustainable Leadership from Developing Leaders Quarterly
Link to a MITSloan article on collaboration failure
Article link that explores "Connection before content"
A video on the Circles of Influence Visual from HumanSystems.co
Link to Steve Whitla and team’s blog
Read once and saving for a deeper read ' reflection: Flexuosity untangled – Cognitive Edge — Read on www.cognitive-edge.com/flexuosity-untangled/
Saving this series for reading later https://www.equalexperts.com/blog/our-thinking/continuous-evolution-part-1-an-agile-strategy-for-an-unpredictable-world/
Saving for later https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-to-make-sense-of-weak-signals/
Saving for reading https://www.epicpeople.org/sensemaking-in-organizations/ Follow on article: https://www.epicpeople.org/sensemaking-methodology/
Saving for later. The ideas don't seem radical, but certainly not common practice https://medium.com/@drsaraschung/radical-listening-to-improve-understanding-of-system-dynamics-f1bacee8c875
Link to resources from Map Camp 2020
Learning Journal Notes of Toby Sinclair on the Cynefin Foundations Course
Plotting Strategy in a Dynamic World — Read on sloanreview.mit.edu/article/plotting-strategy-in-a-dynamic-world/
Source: Leading for Regeneration : Going Beyond Sustainability in Business Education, and Community by John Hardman
complexity map castellani map of complexity science, complexity theory, complexity science, complexity, brian castellani, durham sociology complexity — Read on www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html
MG Taylor Modeling Language — Read on legacy.mgtaylor.com/mgtaylor/glasbead/expmodel.htm
A pretty long read, so Savin for later..The pandemic is an unprecedented opportunity – seeing human society as a complex system opens a better future for us all — Read on aeon.co/essays/complex-systems-science-allows-us-to-see-new-paths-forward
Article on future planning - futurist come model
Link to Mark's ebooks... — Read on markburgess.org/treatise.html
Link to PDF: designwithdialogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/peterblock.pdf The following also supports the ideas here: http://www.chaosmanagement.com/images/stories/pdfs/Notes%20on%20Peter%20Block%27s%20book%20on%20Community.pdf As does http://kr.mnsu.edu/~jp5985fj/courses/230/Block.doc
Webpage for Dialogic OD - Bushe-Marshak Institute — Read on b-m-institute.com/
Lost this and found again, so saving... https://tasshin.com/blog/towards-burja-mapping/
Resources related to conference proceedings RSD8 2019
An interesting article and supporting resources (documents & PDFs) on distributed decision making
Link to article with four models that look at facets of devolved decision making / sense making.
Full article in pdf: www.cecan.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2019-03/PSM Workshop method.pdf
Interesting read, held for later: What is joint problem framing? What are the key issues that joint problem framing has to address? How can joint problem framing be improved? What is joint problem framing? A key aspect of tackling complex problems is effectively bringing together differing points of view. These points of view are… — Read on i2insights.org/2020/06/23/framework-for-problem-framing/
Some interesting points in this, so holding here for later reading...Read to know why we need a more thoughtful way of making sense of our emerging chaos and uncertainty — Read on www.peoplematters.in/article/life-at-work/finding-simplicity-in-chaos-beyond-vuca-25159
My work at The National Lottery Community Fund and beyond involves hosting people in sensemaking processes. Good sensemaking is important for any group or team who are trying to make sense of the… — Read on medium.com/@phoebetickell/sensemaking-101-tips-for-improving-your-sensemaking-in-a-time-of-confusion-c2399a5f9981
Russell Ackoff's talk presented at the Systems Thinking in Action conference - November, 1993. In this fascinating lecture, Ackoff states that we're in the e... — Read on www.youtube.com/watch
lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/The Future Civilization.pdf
A link to the work by The Value Web on exploring the role of facilitation in change
