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Marketing the Narrative of Complexity
Complexity, by its very nature, is not a simple concept to communicate, yet it is increasingly becoming one that will define our times and may be the key to ensuring human survival and wellbeing in the...
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Complexity and the Senseless Marketing of the Future
Futurists take what we know now and project into the future ideas about things will be like years from today using the models that have worked consistently up to now. Those models applied to human...
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Jonah Lehrer and the Crisis of Knowledge Synthesis
Jonah Lehrer is/was as big as it gets in science writing and two weeks ago proved the adage that the higher one climbs the farther the fall after admitting to some false content in his stories. This...
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The Quality Metric in Education
What goes on the pedestal of learning? What is quality when we speak of learning? In this third post in series on education and evaluation metrics the issue of quality is within graduate and...
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Diversity / Complexity in Focus
Diversity in focus? As cities and regions worldwide celebrate Pride the role of diversity, understanding and unity has been brought to mind just as it has contemplating the British public’s choice to...
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Scaling Impact
‘Achieving scale’ might be the golden goose of social innovation. It’s a simple phrase, but its meaning and misunderstanding is not. “How do we take this to scale?” This common and often well-meaning...
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The Complexity Cop-out
Complexity Complexity introduces significant challenges for humans. One of the unexpected ones is that it’s been used to hide from difficult problems. Our understanding of complexity has come a long...
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Unprecedented: Living Complexity
‘Unprecedented’ is a term that is changing how we understand complexity and foresight. One thing that often makes complex situations live up to their name is that there is so much going on at once in...
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Complexity At The Beach
We can learn much about change from our trips to the beach and how things relate to one another. Beach-going is a summer pleasure than those of us fortunate to live close to the water can enjoy as an...
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Systems and Complexity: Implications for Evaluation
This second in a series on Principles-Focused Evaluation (PFE) draws our attention to the concepts of systems and complexity and how can PFE help us navigate both. Systems (thinking), complexity, and...
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