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S2 Ep. 5 Dave Snowden – Building Scalable Organizations that can Deal with Uncertainty

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The Role of Ontology in Organizational Development

We need an epistemic posture that is much more, I would say, friendly to not knowing to some extent. The other key thing in this age is what's called epistemic justice - allowing people's voice to come through. So for example, outline mapping would present something to the hold of your workforce. They'd all interpret it. And then you'd look for patterns in the interpretation to find groups of people who are seeing things differently from other people. That's both important in terms of leadership because that's about weak signal detection. But it's also important in letting people's own voices to be heard. It comes back to what we talked about, citizen engagement and increasing intimacy

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