Friday, March 16, 2007

David Snowden and Cognitive Edge

David Snowden is one of these persons who do not care a lot of what other people think about him. That makes him a very controversial person. But, as we know, controversial persons bring about development. I have great respect for him and I just discovered that his organization has renamed their organization and their website. He writes a cool blog, which I just added to my favourite blog list. While it used to be Cynefin (according to Wikipedia, the name ‘Cynefin’ is a Welsh word whose literal translation into English as habitat or place fails to do it justice), the name of the organization is now Cognitive Edge. More...

Posted by Holger Nauheimer at 1:26 PM

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  1. Thanks Otto, I am flattered. However one correction. NLP is I think dangerous and has no proper scientific basis. However AI is not crap, it is a good technique when you need to turn around a group who have got stuck in a deep negativity in the stories they tell. However it is very poor as a disclosure and learning technique for the same reason. It privileges a certain type of story, rather than allowing people to tell the authentic stories of their own experience. It also puts too much emphasis on the facilitator: which may be why facilitators like it so much :-)
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