This episode is a conversation with Johnnie Moore about his inspiring work as facilitatorJohnnie Moore - BioJohnnie Moore is a great facilitator, He's written two books about it - Creative Facilitation and Unhurried. More here johnniemoore.com

How to make good telly

Jun 9th, 2023 35m 16s

This episode is another conversation with Daniel Thornton (like Episode 2 but this time with bells on) about Covid, companies dying, electric cars, corporate bullshit, and the Succession series.Daniel Thornton - BioDaniel studied PPE at Oxford

Experimental Finland

Feb 19th, 2020 48m 28s

This episode is a conversation with Olli-Pekka Heinonen - currently the civil servant responsible for primary and secondary education in Finland - about his experience of applying complexity thinking in the Finnish government.Olli-Pekka Heinone

Not system thinking

Jan 13th, 2020 33m 11s

This episode is a conversation with Eric Wenzel about his experience of the theory of complex responsive processes of relating.Selected quotes"And it took me the three years of the [Doctor of Mangement] programme to try and understand what it w

Turning the purpose of management upside-down

Nov 4th, 2019 27m 46s

Selected quotes“The idea of complexity helped us explain why outcome based performance management [is failing]” - 3:09“Outcome based performance management … and New Public Management … is conceptually flawed” - 6:21“We needed a new paradigm” -

Trust, Gestalt and the Inflatable Elephant

Mar 13th, 2019 31m 20s

Selected quotes> "The environment we're in changes who we are and what we bring." - 6:55> "Gestalt for me is about ... it's about the whole and about the parts." - 8:30> "How do we build enough trust within the team that we can start to tell ea

Experimenting

Feb 15th, 2019 37m 15s

Main points- Losing Control movement - 2:00 / 31:00- Emphasis on evidence-based policy - 5:15- The difference between Explicit and Tacit knowledge and the importance of place - 6:30- Cultural barriers to experimentation - 18:45- Buurtzorg and t

How to learn about complexity

Jan 11th, 2019 25m 2s

ReferencesBook - Quark and the Jaguar - Murray Gell-MannBook - Complexity - Mitchell WaldropBook - Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics - Ralph StaceyBook - The Nature of Technology - Brian ArthurOnline resources - Complexity Explor

What complexity actually is

Jan 8th, 2019 45m 36s

Roland Kupers - BioRoland is an independent advisor on Complexity, Resilience and Energy Transition.He Dutch and speaks 4 other languages fluently.Originally a theoretical physicist he’s worked in business management in AT&T then in Shell where

Why big government things go wrong

Dec 14th, 2018 55m 8s

Daniel Thornton - BioDaniel studied PPE at Oxford and History at LSE. He’s had huge experience in central government. He worked in the Foreign Office, Parliament, the Treasury, DCLG and has been a Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. Since