uncertainty
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Systems and complexity
A quick guide to post-normal science
Post-normal science comes into play for decision-making on policy issues where facts are uncertain, values in dispute, stakes high and…
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Systems and complexity
Considering uncertainty, awareness and ambiguity as a three-dimensional space
The concept of unknown unknowns highlights the importance of introspection in assessing knowledge.
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Systems and complexity
The need for new leadership in this COVID-era
New research suggests that effective leadership in the face of wicked problems calls for a very different set of virtues…
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Systems and complexity
Taking responsibility for complexity (section 3.2): When? Building adaptive and emergent responses
In complex problems, a greater burden of the generation and use of knowledge for implementation needs to be shifted to…
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Brain power
How improv can help us deal with uncertainty
Improvisation is shown to produce benefits beyond every day, routine social interactions.
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Brain power
Misinformation slows our collective response during crises
Effective decision-making is crucial in a crisis, but we’re also often flooded with information and conflicting input.
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Systems and complexity
The interplay between knowledge and power
Knowledge and information are not objective, but are contested, politicized, and pluralized. How can we take the political dimension into…
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Brain power
In uncertain times it pays to explore
People tend to make a choice between the familiarity of what they know or the relative uncertainty of something new.
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Planning and strategy development in the face of complexity
Planning and strategy development in the face of complexity series (part 3): Task 1 – Assess the level of uncertainty
Interventions that face uncertain environments can not rely only on traditional tools for planning and strategy development.