Why is "theory based practice" a useful approach when transforming culture? - Prof. Dave Snowden
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- From TRANSFORMING CULTURE - MiL Foundation Forum Leadership Conference 2019.
During times of uncertainty, the way we did things in the past (the essence of case based approaches that underpin most books on the subject) is positively dangerous as it entrains past practice in a new era. So how do we manage the evolutionary potential of the present and avoid the false promise of idealistic future state definitions? How do we make cultural change resilient and sustainable?
Learn more about Professor Dave Snowdens work at cognitive-edge.com/
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I've followed him for decades now.
He's a great marketer.
Much of his stuff is old news, but he presents in a marvelous way.
He's gotten into the habit of trashing every discipline, and promoting the "Only I can fix this" mantra.
In fact, almost every great theory of the past has been debunked, so it's not that hard to use that angle.
It's entertaining and a good example of how a well trained rhetorician operates when alone on stage.
He's got a lot of great material and a good memory.
The good news is that he gives freely.
I always look forward to his lectures.
this speech only is a gold mine of insights
Dave Snowden is the foremost thinker, and a practitioner of the theories he refers to and elucidates in his presentations in the field of sense-making and organisational development in general. One might be expected to research the theoretical aspects afterwards for deeper understanding, but that yields rewards in praxis.
^^>> But let's not be obvious shills here. Wwe won't ever stop WW3 that way and we missed that opportunity. Like i said 4 months ago- the only way The West can avoid a 3rd world war is to scramble planes in the sky...Defend The Unkrainium- protect your head
This might seem counterintuitive- it' snot.
David Snowden is one of the funniest people I can think of, and they say God is a comdian- but that's not important. What is important IS The Cynefin Framework for those of you who really understand it. Dr. Snowden doesn't pretend to and we'll come back to that a little later in a bit...I recomend starting off with 1 of the 5-10 minute Simple explainations of the model on youtube, there are 1000's of people who aren't quite masters that don't get it at all who are much more capable of priming you for epiphany. These longer 1 hr plus presentations are more for Dr. Snowden and the team at Cognitive Edge to categorize the audience (and it doesn't really matter who it is). Of coarse there is benefit in following along or simply just trying to as a member of the audience as a matter of conditioning- everyone will be able to pick up on some things like the emphasis on complexity.
I have often wondered if neuro a typical folks are able to pick up on just what is happening right away- like I did, or at least I thought i knew what was going on and was able to articulate it and confirmed some initial assumptions. Nobody listened, Dave Snowden is aware of this which is actually quite dangerous considering the disgraced field of NLP (neuro linguistic programming) which has been proven not to work on the level of science. It works better when the subject can't really pay attention and listen, not what to is actually being said but how it's being spoken. Cognitive Activation is key.
28:00 - We learn through failure, not success. Brain pays attention to failure instantly, but may not even notice success. Failure avoidance is evolutionary better strategy than imitation of success. Because of this, better to build worst practice systems than best practice systems - people like and remember more
31:52 - Games in which people fail - far more learning. Games focused on succeeding - people play by the rules, stimulate gaming the system (MBA case). Rule compliance become more important than the thing the rules are meant to be about.
54:03 - Most management methods were developed in manufacturing, which is a closed system, and people applied it to services, which is an open system.
You manage only things you can manage in complex adaptive systems - boundary constraints, probes and amplification strategies
1:03:06 - Connecting dots test with audience. With the benefit of hindsight, anybody can see a causal chain. But hindsight do not lead to foresight in complex systems
1:25:07 - Technique for innovation - when in a crisis, activate the crisis management in parallel with innovation effort. Never waste a good crisis
1:26:45 - In complex environment, find list of coherent hypothesis, probe multiple in parallel with little effort in safe to fail experiments, sense and respond.
For executives, makes it easier: complicated - what experts, what analysis process, when will they report, what will it cost
Complex - list of coherent hypothesis, list of safe to fail experiments, when will they complete
I'm really puzzled why would China go down the path of 'goal-oriented systems thinking' which is bound to fail? rather than continue to interact with a complex world in creative heuristic ways?
Helmut, this a a wonderful pair of questions
This reminds me of anecote I encountered in some deep text of my favorite Slovenian philosopher. I have confirmed that the anectdote is supposedly true and it is about the leadership of The Chinese Communist party during the height of The Cultural Revolution which can be understood as a bloodbath. Chou En Lai ever the centrist was critical in helping Mao consolidate power for those that don't know and was instrumental in forming China's foriegn policy and develop her economy.
As the story goes China was making some moves internationally to overcome isolation which can be understood as the precurser for opening to the west. The West at the time merely understood these moves as duplicitous in which China's main interest was to form alliances with other enemies of the Soviet Union. The enemy of my enemy is a friend type of thing but looking back the view amongst the Chinese was not nearly so cynical. Weak Signal detection- the small indicators of incredible significance that we can recognize in hindsight now that we are focused on it that we completely missed when they were right in front of us.
Chou En Lai- on 1 rare occasion conducting diplomacy outside of China was in France. In a gaggle of reporters that were shouting out questions before a very important diplomatic meeting 1 French reporter shouted out "What the heck is going on in China with all the chaos of your Cultural Revolution?" Allegedly Chou En Lai replied "That's a very good question" Another reporter asked "Minister En Lai what do you think of The French Revolution?" His response " It's too soon to tell".
What lessons can we draw from this anecdote and the responses to both questions? In hindsight knowing now that within a couple years Richard Nixon traveled to China re establishing diplomatic relations, and the next time Chou En Lai left China was on a plane fleeing to Moscow which mysteriously crashed....