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#149 Cynefin at 21 - with Dave Snowden

Being Human

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The Differences Between Complexity Thinking and Systems Thinking

Do not confuse complexity thinking with systems thinking, let alone systems dynamics and God help us cybernetics. Let's do that. I'd love to get into that. But just to come back briefly to the sense making piece. So, so you're saying the sense making in the way that you understand it is different. You've given two examples there. One is this method-based approach where we're connecting individuals and the importance is the connections that they make. And now it's an ecological metaphor, not an engineering metaphor. The rubbery's engineers want plans and goals. Convexity is an ecological metaphor. What matters is you know where the hell you are and what you

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