LP748 week 2

WK 2 Readings & Videos Read:

Introduction and Part 1 of Thinking in Systems Case study: Homelessness in Harvard Square: homelessnessinharvardsquare-1.pdf (https://canvas.williamjames.edu/courses/10774/files/1005548?wrap=1)

Think:

What about how Donella Meadows talks about systems thinking feels new, interesting, weird, or confusing? How does the case show up as a) a wicked problem and b) a "system" calling out to us from beyond?

Read (Optional)

Original Wicked Problems article https://www.sympoetic.net/Managing_Complexity/complexity_ files/1973%20Rittel%20and%20Webber%20Wicked%20Problem s.pdf (https://www.sympoetic.net/Managing_Complexity/complexity_)

AI (Optional):

Ask AI to give you some supplementary introductory ideas to Systems Thinking, and maybe some visual representations Maybe ask AI to tell you why Donella Meadows is so universally beloved as a systems thinking teacher

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WK 2 Alternative Complexity Readings For those who have had Adaptive Leadership and want to supplement their thinking about systems thinking from the complexity angle, alternative readings on the Cynefin Framework!

Main idea: Leaders make better decisions when they diagnose the context they’re in before choosing how to act. (I.e. when they choose to interact differently at different levels of complexity)

Watch:

The Cynefin Framework creator, Dave Snowden, describe it: https://youtu.be/N7oz366X0-8?si=oo_5mYcf3UtjxNLH (https://youtu.be/N7oz366X0-8? si=oo_5mYcf3UtjxNLH)

Read:

The seminal HBR article that made Cynefin famous: A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making.pdf (https://canvas.williamjames.edu/courses/10774/files/1013603?wrap=1) (https://canvas.williamjames.edu/courses/10774/files/1013603/download?download_frd=1)

Think:

How does Snowden's framework map onto Wicked Problems? Where does it align, where differ?

Ask AI:

See if AI can help you compare the approach of the Cynefin Framework, Wicked Problems, and Adaptive Leadership!

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