Introductions are in order: Cynefin and Theory of Constraints
I discovered Cognitive Edge and the Cynefin Model after learning, studying, applying and dabbling in a number of other models and tool sets, mostly in the fields of management science and continuous...
View ArticleWhy I must apologize to Southern California
In James March’s book, “The Ambiguities of Experience” he points out that learning from experience is a lot trickier than we may think because we often don’t learn or we think we learned something even...
View ArticleYes, it is obvious…but only in hindsight.
My first post discussed Eli Goldratt’s first business novel, “The Goal” through a Cynefin lens. This post will do the same for his latest, “Isn’t It Obvious?” (written with co-authors Ilan Eshkoli and...
View ArticleHindsight, Foresight, and Learning from Military History
We may agree that when it comes to Complex Systems, hindsight does not lead to foresight, but we can still learn from the past. Most of my time is spent in complex business systems but I’ve found...
View ArticleThe Logical Thinking Process and the Cynefin Model
In a comment to my post describing Goldratt’s book, “Isn’t It Obvious?” through a Cynefin lens (Yes it is obvious…but only in hindsight), Robert Roy asked about the use of the Theory of Constraints...
View ArticleLessons Learned and Lessons Not Learned from History
Command or Control?: Command, Training and Tactics in the British and German Armies, 1888-1918 by Martin Samuels is one of the 7 books making up the “Maneuver Warfare Canon” as described by Bill Lind...
View ArticleThe challenge of using someone else’s Best Practices
In my posting Lessons Learned and Lessons Not Learned from History I said that there were two major points I drew from “Command or Control?” by Martin Samuels. That entry had to do with the challenge...
View ArticleDarmok and Jalad at Tanagra
In his blog Dave has mentioned work on metaphor based command languages; a sort of short form of communication capable between people who share a common understanding of the metaphors used. Now, I...
View ArticleTechnology limitations and pattern entrainment
Have you ever run into a case where you’ve been promised (or “sold”) a huge gain for implementing a new process but reality never came close to matching the hype? If so you may have run into a form of...
View ArticleWeak Signals to Retrospective Coherence
Since I’ve been talking about the difficulties of learning from experience–our own as well as others–and because I’ve used examples that could just as easily be seen as using hindsight, I found a...
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