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…
Experimenting with Siri
Siri and I got where we wanted to go through a process of testing and learning the way forward together.
Iconic relationships for iconic waterways
We can’t achieve an iconic waterway without working on the relationships between the people and groups who hold the…
Shared Direction- “What does good look like?”
It is essential to be clear on what success looks like to be confident that the solutions that emerge will be resilient…
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…
The Three Steps of Authentic Collaboration
We can take comfort in three simple steps for working with others on our most challenging problems. These steps don’t…
2021: A year of Frustration and Innovation
Disruption and uncertainty allow some old patterns to be discarded and new pathways to emerge.