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Tag Archives: Failure
Loops of Leadership
Engineers describe two types of system: ‘open’ and ‘closed’ loops. In an open loop system, there are inputs, and outputs, but no feedback. The systems presses on regardless. In a closed loop system, part of the output is fed back, … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership
Tagged Decision Making, Engineering, Failure, Feedback, Leadership, Social Leadership, Systems
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The New York Dereliction Walk: Failure, Innovation, and Social Movements for Change
Things change: the cities, towns, and rural landscapes that we live within do not form a passive backdrop to our actions, but rather cast a sharp shadow from them. Today i am sharing my full notes and research for ‘The … Continue reading
Posted in Change
Tagged Change, Coffee, Dereliction, Failure, Grand Central Station, Innovation, New York, Stonewall Inn, The High Line, Walking
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Apollo
The Saturn 5 rocket, the one that lofted Armstrong, Collins, and Aldrin, into space and set them on the path to the moon, had more than three million parts to it. It’s sometimes reckoned to be the most complex machine … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure
Tagged Apollo, Apollo Landings, Buzz Aldrin, complexity, Exploration, Failure, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, Rockets, Saturn V, Space, Systems
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12 Modes of Innovation
Arguably, there is only one definition of ‘innovation’, which must read something like ‘to create something outside a known frame of understanding’: for me there is something about looking beyond the frames and context that we know, and looking through … Continue reading
The Dereliction Walk: early stage #WorkingOutLoud
I’m working on the design of a ‘Dereliction Walk’ in New York: it’s a group activity that explores ideas of innovation, failure, and the mechanisms of community driven change. You may have seen that much of my more recent work … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Learning
Tagged Dereliction, Exploration, Failure, Innovation, New York, Walk
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12 Modes of Failure
Organisations fail for a broad range of reasons, but rarely for no reason at all. I found myself thinking about a taxonomy of failure: unless we deem failure to be the action of idiots and fools, we must be open … Continue reading
‘Safety Making’ – 9 routes to failure
I used a phrase in the blog yesterday, and it’s been stuck in my mind ever since: “People are engaged in some kind of mass hysteria, and mass ‘safety making’”. ‘Safety Making’: I wrote the sentence on an impulse: i … Continue reading
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