The problems the world is facing now, including ecological damage, natural disasters, poverty, species loss, political upheaval, refugee trauma, and even health epidemics, can all be described as complex, that is, they are born of circumstances that are multi-causal and non-linear. This complexity vexes the traditional problem-solving model of separating the problems into singularly defined … Continue reading Complex Problems Require an Entirely Different Approach in Assessment, and Action Nora Bateson
Retrospective Coherence in a Complex World What Is a System? ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter The world is fast-changing and increasingly more turbulent. The problems and challenges we face are both complex and adaptive and thus more resilient in the face of traditional approaches and ways of working. Posts that link to … Continue reading Introduction: Complexity The world is fast-changing and increasingly more turbulent
Complex Systems and Complex Adaptive Systems ** Complex Adaptive Systems ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter Complex Systems A complex system consists of many highly interconnected parts that dynamically interact with each other. The Internet and the global economy are good examples. Complex is not the same as complicated In everyday language, we … Continue reading Complex Systems ** Many parts interacting with each other in multiple ways
The Mehrabian Myth The New Science of Building Great Teams ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter Deep-rooted social and health challenges often seem insurmountable in communities worldwide. Positive Deviance (PD), a strategy born from a nutrition project in Vietnam, illuminates the power of outlier practices to combat such issues. Valuing local wisdom and … Continue reading Positive Deviance An approach to behavioral and social change
