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28 Dec 2024

On (American) Pragmatism

28 Dec 2024

How a (American) Pragmatist Party might lead the world from its current challenges

28 Dec 2024

23 May 2024

Trains, tickets and AI

23 May 2024

An experiment with AIs

23 May 2024

27 Jan 2023

Petitions can polarise - we could assemble instead

27 Jan 2023

Citizens’ assemblies could offer a way of out of the political mess we are in - we should be experimenting with them

27 Jan 2023

18 Mar 2022

Bothered by systems thinking

18 Mar 2022

A thought about systems thinking

18 Mar 2022

11 Mar 2021

rhetoric

I don't believe a word of it

11 Mar 2021

rhetoric

A thought about rhetoric

11 Mar 2021

rhetoric

23 Feb 2021

metaphors

Roadmap

23 Feb 2021

metaphors

On the appropriateness of metaphors

23 Feb 2021

metaphors

16 Oct 2020

Signal, not WhatsApp

16 Oct 2020

The Signal messaging app is better for us than WhatsApp - we should all use it

16 Oct 2020

13 Feb 2020

What do we know?

13 Feb 2020

The model of the world we carry in our heads is perhaps not as dependable as we’d like to think.

13 Feb 2020

22 Jan 2020

Change

We all love a good gossip

22 Jan 2020

Change

About how gossip signals opportunities for change

22 Jan 2020

Change

15 Jan 2020

Complex responsive processes

15 Jan 2020

An overview of the complex responsive processes of relating

15 Jan 2020

6 Sept 2019

Public Sector Reform, Government

What Dominic Cummings is doing

6 Sept 2019

Public Sector Reform, Government

Dominic Cummings intention is to shock government into a different state of being, and not particularly to get the UK out of the EU

6 Sept 2019

Public Sector Reform, Government

11 May 2019

language

The trouble with words

11 May 2019

language

How the vital mechanisms that enable us to communicate effectively can also cause polarisation.

11 May 2019

language

24 Feb 2019

Metaphors

Stand and deliver

24 Feb 2019

Metaphors

How the use of the word Deliver is increasing and the problems caused by its use as a metaphor for bringing about complex change.

24 Feb 2019

Metaphors

10 Jan 2019

Complexity

Funny old game

10 Jan 2019

Complexity

Thoughts after the recent film “Brexit: The Uncivil War”, dysfunction in government and the new game we are in.

10 Jan 2019

Complexity

21 Dec 2018

Complexity, Leadership

On instability, pulling levers and taking control

21 Dec 2018

Complexity, Leadership

Increased connectedness in the world is bringing unusual instability. The idea of “taking” control of it is not a very useful one.

21 Dec 2018

Complexity, Leadership

20 Dec 2018

Complexity

The Clock and the Cat podcast

20 Dec 2018

Complexity

Mark Foden’s new podcast - The Clock and the Cat - about complexity in organisations.

20 Dec 2018

Complexity