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Why Either/ Or Thinking is Dangerous
December 21, 2012 Editor 0
Either/Or thinking is very dangerous in a complex system – precisely because nothing is always absolutely so. And, for better or worse, we live in a whole set of complex systems. We have to figure out how to move beyond Either/Or thinking. In the following article, Tim Kastelle puts forward a few ideas and tools […]
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Successful Business Transformation Requires A New Logic To Handle Ambiguity And Change
December 1, 2012 Editor 0
The strategic framing of complex and ambiguous issues, like those we’re facing in many industries today, requires thinking approaches that are free from organizational dogmas, codified limitations and old assumptions. Design thinking is one approach leaders can use to take a fresh look at their businesses, counsels Idris Moottee. Go to Source
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History’s Greatest Thinkers: Champions of Pattern Recognition
October 8, 2012 Editor 0
The Imaginary Foundation, a Swiss think tank that does experimental research on new ways of thinking and the power of the imagination, has published The Pattern Seeker Trading Cards, a collection of 23 cards that pays tribute to the common characteristic shared by some of the best thinkers throughout history: They recognized that the world […]
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EmTech Preview: Another Way to Think about Learning
September 13, 2012 Editor 0
Photos courtesy of Matt Keller Seymour Papert, a computer scientist and pioneer in artificial intelligence, once said: “You cannot think about thinking unless you think about thinking about something.” Does this apply to learning? Maybe not. Here is what I mean.
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