From Groaning to Growing With Your Collaborators
When collaborating on difficult problems, that groaning you hear is the sound of old ideas fading and new ideas…
Being comfortable with discomfort
While the group’s inherent desire was to help “fix” the situation, there was a growing recognition that allowing people…
How to Disappear Completely
Rather than seeking more control to wrangle your stakeholders, it often pays to disappear, if not completely, then just…
Overcoming the inertia- just try stuff
Perhaps just ‘trying stuff’ (and living with a degree of uncertainty) can overcome that frustrating feeling that we…
Trusting the data in co-design
....they had been focused on the data, and rather than the less obvious contextual issues that were also critical to…
Take a different viewpoint
the importance of seeing more than one viewpoint when tackling a complex situation to build a clearer and more complete…
Just Try Stuff….
“Just try stuff” was about recognising that a key characteristic of a complex situation like a pandemic is uncertainty…
Turn rejection into collaboration
.....an example of ‘weaponizing’ rejection or disagreement..... And while rejection is frustrating, it’s still an…
When it comes to the jab, is there a vaccine against my own righteous certainty?
Even when I am feeling right, when my opinion seems self-evidently the correct one, I still have the choice to put my…