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When is a change a real change? When it is a paradigm shift!
The term "paradigm shift" gets tossed around. Its meaning has become more and more hazy since 1962, when Thomas Kuhn first applied the term to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
In this short video, Glenda Eoyang explores four signs of a true paradigm shift. She looks for those signs in human systems dynamics and other complexity-informed disciplines in social sciences. In the process, she explains why teaching complexity is often much more difficult than understanding it.
April 9, 2020 (Rescheduled from April 2)
In an unknowable future, how do you calculate risk? How can you even begin to control it?
You don’t.
Every action in a complex system opens the door to surprising results and unintended consequences. Some will be pleasant surprises. Others will not be. The only reasonable path is to take action and learn from surprise, both the good and the bad. The HSD Learning Triangle explains how you can transform risk into opportunity for yourself, your team, and your organization.
In this Live Virtual Workshop, join Glenda Eoyang to explore ways the Learning Triangle inform your Adaptive Actions to build Adaptive Capacity for yourself and in your teams.
Build Adaptive Capacity
Learning a new language often involves as much forgetting or letting go as it does memorizing new words and creating new patterns of speech. On a recent trip to Mexico, I had a chance to renew my Spanish language studies. As I did, I noticed how my mid-life brain struggled to remember and retrieve unfamiliar words, and the surprising things it would do to meet the new demands. As a practitioner of human systems dynamics, I pondered what this experience could teach me about the role of difference in pattern formation. This blog explores some of my reflection.
December 7, 2017
People are overwhelmed with an explosion of diversity across all areas of their lives. There are too many differences, too many choices, too many decisions to be made. But when we deal with that diversity by isolating into separate silos, we find that those silos are actually connected with each other in myriad ways. HSD offers models and methods, perspectives and tools that help you leverage those differences into an integrated whole. It shows how to build your own path to the fix that fits you and your organization.
Plan in Uncertainty
November 3, 2016
Certainty and control frame thought and action in the global north and west.
Build Adaptive Capacity
December 3, 2015
Glenda Eoyang talks about aging and how we move through the aging process in a complex adaptive system. She describes the steps of iterative cycles of Adaptive Action: What? generates energy in the patterns of a complex adaptive system? So what? are those patterns in personal experience of physical, emotional, mental, social change? Now what? can we do to use this information to age gracefully?