Some have spent years studying Kant and his Categorical Framework for knowledge, first published in 1781. I am absolutely fascinated by the implications of Kant’s maddeningly simple chart. Can it be a framework for all knowledge? Can we somehow bring this structure into our modern, 21st century understanding of how we think about knowledge itself? I think we [...]
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21st Century Kant: Learning to Frame Knowledge Anew (w/ help from Aristotle & Wittgenstein)
Posted in complexity, critical thinking, tagged artistotle, convergence, framework, Kant, knowledge, paradigm, philosophy, Wittgenstein on January 22, 2012 | 7 Comments »
The Divergence of Thought in Science & Philosophy: Could “Complexity” be New Common Ground?
Posted in complexity, critical thinking, paradigm, tagged Aristotle, Bacon, Bloom, complexity, Des Cartes, epistemology, Kant, knowledge, knowledge frameworks, kuhn, philosophy, science on October 31, 2011 | 41 Comments »
Knowledge is a gift best appreciated when we don’t try to think about it. As a topic of focus, it frequently defies words. It grows more elusive as we attempt to draw closer to its source. And, though we make complex decisions every day, we routinely fail to grasp what it means to truly understand [...]
Kotter’s 8-Steps: Leading Change in the 21st Century Organization
Posted in change, complexity, culture, e20, gov20, innovation on April 10, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Is there a good way to attack change in organizations? To influence (and maybe even ‘fix’) the complex org cultures that drive the collective behavior of their members? That’s the focus of this post, the 5th in my series on culture change. John Kotter gave us perhaps the best-circulated approach for change in his HBR paper [...]
Complexity in Organizations: Finding Patterns that Work
Posted in change, collaboration, complexity, culture, innovation on March 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
As our series on org culture continues, its time to raise the bar in our thinking. Imagine an overlay of the many cultural dimensions of Edgar Schein onto the four primary cultural forces of Charles Handy. The plot thickens: these are conditions present in virtually all organizations. Large orgs have many, diverse subcultures, making cause [...]
The Trouble w/ Silos: Lessons from Charles Handy
Posted in complexity, culture on March 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We’re continuing to unpack the forces of culture in organizations. So far, we’ve framed the many challenges, and looked to Edgar Schein to help us understand the interplay among org culture’s multiple, overlapping dimensions. Now let’s tap the insights of Charles Handy (Understanding Organizations, 4th ed. 1993) who defined four cultural structures that are alive [...]
Problem Solving for Ecosystems with “EcoDNA”
Posted in complexity, ecosystem, tagged collaboration, ecosystem, innovation, twitter on October 5, 2009 | 3 Comments »
If you’re following ECOSYS, you’ll know we’re moving quickly past the high-level overview stage and on to process details. Our goal: to prove that virtual collaboration can drive social innovation. We ran our second #ecosys chat last night on Twitter; our transcripts are posted on NING . To illustrate our approach, let me show you [...]
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