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Rushkoff's Demythologizing of the Marketing of Power

How does "power" sustain itself?  Force is not enough, as the power of its "subjects" to topple power through rebellion is always greater than that of the ruling elite to exercise control, as the...

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A Note on Excellence and the Pursuit of Happiness

An American client working at a German company reflected with me last week on an insight she had come to about working and living in Germany.  What surprised her was how many quietly competent people...

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Umair Haque and Saving Capitalism

In an article in Vanity Fair by Michael Lewis on the Irish experience of the financial crisis, one biting comment particularly caught my attention: "Even in an era when capitalists went out of their...

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Two Planets Meet in Space...

I saw this somewhere years ago and couldn't find the source anymore, so here is a homemade version. The problem is not so difficult to understand, once we get some distance on it… See the full gallery...

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The Psychology of Transformation

"Alas, two souls beat within my breast!" groans Faust, as he struggles to reconcile competing interests in himself—and so Goethe describes the existential condition of us all: we are not one with...

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The Emergence of Complexity Theory in Consulting

During a change project at a car parts supplier a few years ago, a process consulting colleague of mine went off on a rant when he heard that the company had just paid a six figure sum for the months...

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Narrative Strategies and the New Approach to Irrationality

Enlightenment reason is dead. The final nails in the coffin are being provided by neuroscience, which has made clear that our thinking is embodied (Antonio D'Amasio) and not Cartesian, emotionally...

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Report on SenseMaking Accreditation at Cognitive Edge

Amsterdam was beautiful last week, a fitting backdrop to the accreditation course provided by Cognitive Edge that I attended. Given my last post on the methodology, let me say that my take away was...

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A Short Meditation on Politics and Creative Destruction

Watching the blockade in the US Congress over raising the budget deficit gave me pause to reflect on the nature of the progress of humanity.  The dishonesty of the debates and their careless use of US...

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German Culture and Complexity

In a new Vanity Fair article on the role of the Germans in the international financial crisis, Michael Lewis, the author of the trenchant Big Short, reports on an interview road trip he takes to try...

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On the Blind Spot for Complexity

Written in response to a comment on my guest-blog contributions at Cognitive Edge: I too have been getting questioning looks when I present enthusiastically some insights from complexity theory to...

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On the Emptiness of Thinking and the Richness of Experience

Reposted from the Cognitive Edge Guest Blog I am writing this week: I'd like to comment on Keith's comment about my notion in my first guest post that ideas in themselves are empty. I agree that many...

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Getting Practical

When thinking flows, I find that I often don't know what I'm going to say or write until I listen to what I am saying or read my own texts. Writing this blog often serves that purpose, helping me in...

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The Value of Culture

Part of the big shift which is taking place in business and society derives from a fundamental breakdown in what one could call a piecemeal or single issue approach to life. One of the most common...

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"It will all be okay in the end…"

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Change, Trauma and Business

Last week I started taking a three-year professional development programme in Somatic Experiencing, a trauma treatment process based on the work of Peter Levine. Though I am not a therapist, my...

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America's Strangely Ambivalent Relationship to Competence

We're on vacation, so I've had some much yearned for time again to do some reading and peruse the blogscape for mental stimulus. Following a tweet from Richard Florida titled "Is Meritocracy a Sham?"...

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Moral Foundations Theory

The state of western political and moral debates has left me speechless (in the blogging sense) over the past year, as I try to fathom the both the inanity of our current discourse and the...

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The Conflict between Learning and Results in Talent Management Strategy

Two clients of mine have posed the question to me about how HR can operate successfully in the emerging environment of complexity and Gen X employees challenging companies today. The question is...

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Complexity-Based Talent Management

Compliance is killing our organizations, and the function in which this is most painfully obvious is Human Resources. People are among the many living things which cannot practically be reduced to...

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