July 2010

• 2010-07-29

  Groupthink, groupfence, groupsense

  Here is a rambling series of mental peregrinations, a set of musings that you might find muse-worthy as well, about thinking and creating individually and in groups. I often find that things I think I’m unique in thinking about turn out to be on the minds of lots of other people too, so see if… Read more

• 2010-07-20

  Identity and harmony in meshwork and hierarchy

  This is yet another post on sensemaking (but it has stories in it!). What got me started on the exploration I want to tell you about was something Dave Snowden said in one of his posts about the history of Cynefin. He said “To use Cynthia’s words we now have a hierarchy and meshwork conflicted… Read more

• 2010-07-14

  Another sibling comes home

  You people just have to see this. It is connected to the recent series of posts on sensemaking. (Anyone who is only interested in narrative without the sensemaking: our regular program will resume soon. Anyone who has no idea what sensemaking is: the Wikipedia page on it is pretty good.) So Stephen Shimshock (whom I… Read more

• 2010-07-11

  Practicing sensemaking with stories

  Recently a correspondent asked me what he should do to prepare for a sensemaking workshop he was planning. I said the best preparation I knew of for a productive sensemaking workshop is another sensemaking workshop before it. Meaning: it takes practice. This is true both for learning to use sensemaking frameworks and exercises and for… Read more

• 2010-07-06

  Two times two is four

  Here is another comment response the system threw out for being too long, and that I thought was worth bringing up to a blog post. This is thanks to Stephen Shimshock, who commented on the Of hypotheses and tools, models and frameworks post. Stephen mentioned how my diagrams (in the Better confluence diagrams post) that… Read more

• 2010-07-05

  Of hypotheses and tools, models and frameworks

  My thanks to everyone who has commented on the Confluence and Better confluence diagrams posts. One particular comment on the Confluence post (by Paula Thornton, twelveth in the list, starting with “Seriously”) got me so motivated to write (thanks Paula!) that I ended up writing something too long for a comment; so I moved it… Read more