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Anne Caspari, Hannes Entz-von-Zerssen, David Snowden
EZC Partners, Cognitive Edge
Complex Adaptive Challenges and Sensemaking
If we go about change exclusively with the approach “one consciousness at the time” with adult development, leadership training and personal coaching, we are facing serious time constraints and a massive scaling problem. We are also missing out on what is actually happening in communities and organisations, and the evolutionary potential of the present. We do help leaders become “VUCA fit” with personal leadership development. At the same time, we are committed to a ‘realist position’, working with whole systems and culture change outside of the developmental agenda. Rather than trying to constantly achieve an idealized future state that makes us miss signals and opportunities on the way there, we tap into the distributed intelligence of the workplace or community. Most of the time, people know what is going on, what is going wrong and how things could be improved. We provide means to harvest that knowledge and get real time, unbiased, relevant and ongoing data about what is actually happening. Scanning that data for weak signals, trends, emergent behaviour or detractors, we simply nudge the system into a generative direction. We help creating locally contextualized solutions and architectures for sustainable change and beneficial emergence. To do that, we work with Dave Snowden’s Cynefin Framework and the Sensemaker® Tools by Cognitive Edge.