Ted Cadsby is an author and researcher, writer and speaker on complexity and decision-making. I don’t know Ted and although he does not use the term Conversational Leadership, he does get close when he talks about Complex Leadership. He is one of a handful of people who are writing and talking about the power of … Continue reading Ted Cadsby Author and researcher, writer and speaker on complexity and decision-making.
We have always struggled as human beings. But our struggle today is exacerbated by a gap between the increasingly complicated world we have created and the default ways we think about it. Twenty-first-century challenges are qualitatively different from those that generations of our ancestors faced, yet our thinking has not evolved to keep pace. We … Continue reading Closing the Mind Gap: Making Smarter Decisions in a Hypercomplex World by Ted Cadsby (2014)
There is a gap between the complicated world we have created and the default ways we think about it. We need greater complexity in our thinking to match the complexity in our world. Credit: Ted Cadsby Posts where this quotation is embedded Two Worlds Learning to live in an entangled worldPeople: Ted CadsbyTed Cadsby Author and … Continue reading A Complex World Demands Complex Thinking Ted Cadsby
What is complex leadership? It starts by understanding the strengths and vulnerabilities of group dialogue. It uses this knowledge to leverage cognitive diversity within a group. Credit: Ted Cadsby Posts where this quotation is embedded Two Worlds Learning to live in an entangled worldPeople: Ted CadsbyTed Cadsby Author and researcher, writer and speaker on complexity and … Continue reading What Is Complex Leadership? Ted Cadsby
We are oddly paradoxical creatures who long to be happy while creating our own suffering. We replay past anguish, anticipate future distress, and stew in self-righteous anger. In Hard to Be Human, Ted Cadsby focuses on five cognitive design flaws that foster underthinking and overreacting and reveals powerful strategies to overcome them. Greedy reductionism Addiction … Continue reading Hard to Be Human: Overcoming Our Five Cognitive Design Flaws by Ted Cadsby (2021)
The Anthropocene Conclusion: Two Worlds Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter Human history spans 200,000 years, marked by a significant shift from survival in the natural world to today’s entangled, complex socio-technical world. Our brains, shaped for simpler times, struggle to navigate this new complexity. To survive, we must adapt our thinking to better … Continue reading Two Worlds Learning to live in an entangled world
