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Why can’t I do the thing I say I want to do?

Despite your intent to change, you don't follow through. You must be lazy, undisciplined. If you really wanted to change this, you'd behave differently. You're a rational person, but your behaviour seems irrational. So you must either not really want to change, or...

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Adaptive approaches for complex challenges

Not all complex challenges are equally challenging. Adam Kahane outlines three forms of complexity that, when present together, create conditions that feel like running up against a brick wall. Learn to recognise these types of complexity so you can gauge the degree...

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Who gets a seat at the table?

Who gets a seat at the table?

There's an art to choosing the right people to attend your workshop. Most issues have more stakeholders than fit in the room. Learning to choose guests based on their power and interest delivers more insights, builds trust, and creates buy in. Here's my 10 minute...

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The Art of Foresight

The Art of Foresight

When I tell the story of how I became a futurist, people are often surprised to learn that my training as an artist was just as helpful as the years I spent working in change, improvement and innovation. You wouldn't expect to find much overlap between a Diploma of...

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Live-tweeting Atomic Habits by James Clear

Live-tweeting Atomic Habits by James Clear

MY LIVE-TWEETED NOTES FROM READING ATOMIC HABITS: AN EASY & PROVEN WAY TO BUILD GOOD HABITS & BREAK BAD ONES BY JAMES CLEAR. YOU CAN VISIT THE ORIGINAL TWITTER THREAD HERE. Habit tracker template from Imperfect Inspiration Less doomscrolling, more...

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So you’re curating an anti-library

One segment of my own antilibrary. Yes, I’m the type of monster who organises her books by spine colour. Nicholas Nassim Taleb opens Black Swan, his book on the impact of the highly improbable, with the story of Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: The writer Umberto Eco...

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Prototyping in systemic change

Prototyping in systemic change

This piece was originally written for the Decision Support Tool, developed by The Systems School and Orange Compass. Prototyping is a process we can use to test and refine an idea or response to a problem, a prototype is the actual ‘thing’ we are working to improve. ...

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What good work looks like

What good work looks like

I woke this morning to Twitter working itself into a fury over Fatima, a ballet dancer depicted in the UK Government Rethink. Reskill. Reboot. campaign that darkly foreshadows her future in cyber security. Caitlin Moran @caitlinmoran I don't know if the government...

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