Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense).
An interesting looking article in the email from Strategy+Business: A Better Choosing Experience. As I’m still writing my Medinge piece on Branding and Complexity, it resonates strongly – I’ve been saying something similar for a few years now. In essence, one way that people talk about a “brand” is as Read more…
A great little story and point from Lorimer Moseley's Body in Mind blog: Does vertebroplasty for osteoporosis-related fractures work In short: Clear scientific trials (rigorously done with sham interventions mimicking all but the one crucial element of a real intervention) has shown that a particular treatment was no better than Read more…
Thanks to everyone at the Leeds Castle leadership event today – a whistle-stop challenge on communications, with an abbreviated Anecdote Circle thrown in. At the break a few of us were talking about The Future, Backwards and, naturally, I recommended Gary Klein’s Sources of Power. The slides are here: Download Read more…
Delighted to see this in the FT: Streetlights and Shadows, a new book out by Gary Klein. Anyone who’ s seen me present or give a masterclass in the past few years will remember that the one book I recommend to everyone is Gary’s Sources of Power. For anyone who’s Read more…
On Monday this week, I spent the day with four smart people playing with Cognitive Edge’s SenseMaker software and a collection of just over 1500 stories. What was most encouraging was that, up to that point, most of us had used it and looked at material and wondered why we Read more…
An interesting experience last week in one of my other identities as a school governor. There’s a debate going on regarding whether or not a Trust is formed in Mid-Beds under Samuel Whitbread Upper School and whether we join it or not. So, mindful of wanting to understand different perspectives Read more…
Narratives and story in organisations Tomorrow should see the publication of Melcrum’s Practitioner’s Guide to Employee Engagement – in which I’ve contributed the chapter on using stories and narrative. It’s been an interesting experience – having abandoned the attempt to fit a gallon into a pintpot early on, I aimed Read more…
I realised a couple of years ago that, although I love the concepts of working more with relationships rather than objects and categories, my natural instinct is still to categorise and try to put things in boxes. (Reading Fritjof Capra’s “The Web of Life” opened my eyes to the possibilities Read more…
Thanks to the participants in today’s workshop – it makes it so much more fun for me and useful for everyone when it’s interactive and relevant rather than one of my monologues. It’s always where I’m aiming, but it helps to have a great bunch of people like this one. Read more…
The calendar of Cognitive Edge events in the next 12 months is up at http://www.cognitive-edge.com/newsite/calendar-accreditation.php Highly recommended – thought-provoking, practical and the future of working with and within organisations. Technorati tags: Cognitive Edge, accreditation, knowledge management, training