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Board games solving real-world problems? Raising awareness of an issue is one thing, as is bringing about understanding. But to facilitate actual problem solving? YES! Hailey Campbell, a city climate adaptation specialist in Hawaii, is the person behind a pair of (yes, TWO!) board games to facilitate difficult conversations
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Knowledge Structures Here's a great introduction to knowledge structures by Francis Miller. AKA, diagrams, canvases, frameworks, visual representations of thought… with a slight difference: The orientation to these visual representations is more cognitive in nature (how we think vs thinking made visual). Sidenote: I have a love/hate
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To Meet or Not to Meet In the ongoing “should we have a meeting, or not?” debates, I found this article (visual) on “Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication” to be a really well-considered perspective, looking at WHY people gather, and what is more (or less) difficult to do asynchronously. Task
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The Agile Fluency® Game The Agile Fluency Game is a euro-style game that “authentically simulates 2.5 years (10 seasons) on a software development team” with the idea that “experiments in the game lead to new insights about your real-world options.” Sign me up! Against personal narratives “Let’
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Assessing Autonomy “Dear Executive: Why don’t people act? This is why no one is stepping up.” I’ve been on both side of this autonomy discussion; it’s not as simple as it is often framed. Great question, with solid, honest answers. LotR Architecture I kind of love this
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A social activism card deck? A social activism card deck and game? (6 games, actually!) The Beautiful Trouble card deck is pitched as a collection of “key strategies and tactics that have inspired centuries of people-powered victories… now in a deck of 100+ cards that you can play!” I&
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Programmable sketches? Here's a provocation for you: ‘What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?’ So. Much. This. Before getting to the good (new) stuff, the first 1/3 of this article recaps the conceptual foundations upon which this work is build (Bret Vector
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Psychological Safety Gaps I love the framing of these as psychological safety gaps (from trainer, coach, & facilitator John Schrag). I’ve recently become fascinated with the phenomenon of “safety gaps” – teams where psychological safety is taken very seriously; where the team leaders seem to be trying to do the
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7 Mythical Arguments against the future of work I enjoyed this piece taking on “Seven arguments against the future of work.” Fun read. Critical thinking. Bonus points for all the hand-drawn (and humorous) illustrations. 18 Ways Complex Systems Fail Short, and to the point! I came across this by
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Here's a two-fer on the topic of collaboration. I love both of these articles in that they are scratching at the catch all idea topic of collaboration… Against collaboration?! “How to build silos and decrease collaboration (on purpose)” certainly caught my attention! I'm not sure
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“Welcome to Hell, Elon” With Elon's arrival at Twitter, it appears, this is THE take. Wow. No punches held back here: “Welcome to hell, Elon.” Slides + Docs This week, I came across not one, not two, but THREE different apps that are playing at the intersection of slides
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Demystifying collaboration… Collaboration is such a Rich and nuanced topic. I love posts like this one “Demystifying collaboration (pt 1): Decisions” that explore “emerging and evolving reflections on better ways of working together.” Lots of good conversation starters in this short post: Collective vs collaborative. Decision making vs problem-solving.