You’d think we would have learned by now. Over the last 50 years we have seen our best thinkers decry the state of institutional education in the Western world (yes, we usually hear this framed as a US “National” issue, but really, the socially conformist view of education is Western if not global.) There are . . . → Read More: Learning – A disruptive innovation of self
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I follow the Freakonomics blog in the New York Times online – one of the few that i do follow anymore. (Blogs have become so abundant worldwide that any opinion or commentary is cheap and available. In such an infoloaded ecology, only the relevant, compelling, and well-written rise above the noise. Relevancy and context rule.) . . . → Read More: Real innovators fail, more. The organizational architecture of failure In Boxes and Arrows, March 19 There are many kinds of failure in large, complex organizations – breakdowns occur at every level of interaction, from interpersonal communication to enterprise finance. Some of these failures are everyday and even helpful, allowing us to safely and iteratively learn and improve communications and . . . → Read More: We Tried To Warn You What are the most effective ways to coordinate organizational transformation? Theories and experiences differ widely. Nearly all schools of strategic transformation assume a top-down decisionmaking style that wreaks “transformation” like a plague of new process changes across the organization. When the dust settles, it’s often the case that it was just another re-org, and now . . . → Read More: Socializing Business Decisions Jeffrey Sachs – Speaking on solving global problems at the Reith Lectures. He may be a one-man Club of Rome. And how can it be, ladies and gentlemen, that we think we can be safe? We think we can be safe when we leave a billion people to struggle literally for their daily survival, the . . . → Read More: Bursting at the Seams |
What is happening in your world that brought you here today? Design Dialogues opens a clearing for my point of view about design-led innovation, social research, and systemic design. A caution that these ideas may not be perfected yet, it is a blog, not a journal. I do invite you to share your ideas and responses. @redesign is always a good start. Our economic and social institutions have peaked out, and have defended themselves well from structural innovation. These societal systems have grown beyond their capacity to transform by management. Collaboration alone is insufficient - We truly need new cultures of co-innovation, collectively deciding, and socially organizing. A community of practice meets for dialogues in person every 2nd Wednesday in Toronto: Art, science, and design are different ways of knowing. In the arenas of action (business, community, and social co-creation) they regenerate each other. All ways of knowing are invited to the dance of change, if we are to interfere & reinvent our values and systems to open these possibilities. Your participation is requested, and required. |
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