Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category
Our tendency to categorise and the effect on sensemaking
Patti over at 37 Days provides a brilliant and humorous description of Richard Nisbett’s work on how westerners and Asians perceive the world differently. Her …
Read MoreGreat quote from Brian Arthur on sensemaking
This has got to be one of the best quotes I’ve seen regarding sensemaking, from an article of Brian Arthur’s in the Harvard Business Review. Imagine …
Read MoreA couple of things I’ve learnt about interventions
Late last year I described some initial thoughts on what makes an intervention. Here is an excerpt: We call them ‘interventions’ because they are designed …
Read MoreCultural attractors – Dan Sperber on the Edge
If you love reading essays by some of the world’s top thinkers, then get onto the Edge mailing list (www.edge.org). This month’s set of essays …
Read MoreAn example of an intervention
In a previous post I’ve described the difference between interventions and projects. On the radio this morning (ABC 774) I heard about what I would …
Read MoreSkimming over the organisational issues
James Dellow made the following comment: I think there are some barriers to blogging inside corporates that Shawn’s paper skims overs. For example, IT architecture, …
Read MoreWhat is an attractor?
Managers can apply complexity science as a metaphor to better understand their organisation. Like all metaphors, they are only a partial description and will always …
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