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Complexity Cogitators Podcast
We are the complexity cogitators. We talk about complexity and try to make sense of organizational behaviour. Show art attribution: Victoruler, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
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Episodes
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#017 - System or ... Polity
Is the word system the best way to describe an organization? When trying to understand or map decision making mandate, the word falls a bit flat. Recently we…
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#016 - Direction
How do you best describe an organization's direction? Is it even useful to have a geometric metaphor for something that doesn't exist in a coordinate system?…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#015 - "Some" Thoughts on Complexity
What is an enabling constraint? Why is it so difficult to talk about direction in organizations? And how come some thoughts around diversity in organizations…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#014 - Navigating Organizational Paradox
What does it mean to accept and navigate a paradox? How come it is so difficult for organizations to accept that adding more details to a plan only increases…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#013 - Team Cognitive Load
Is Team Cognitive Load something you should actively manage for? Is it an organizational design criteria worth optimizing for?
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#012 - Philosophy in Organizations
Does philosophy or philosophical work deserve attention in organizations? Or is there no inherent value in naming some of the inevitable work we all do in…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#011 - WTF is an Engineering Manager
What does an Engineering Manager actually do? As it is a very common role in organizations, should it not be relatively easy to create a role description or…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#010 - Everything is Strategy...?
Is everything strategy? No, everything is not strategy. But more than we traditionally believe. It is also easier than we think, but more complex than we want…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#009 - Insufficient Collaboration
Still inspired by nomadology from the minds of Deleuze and Guattari, we set out on a conversation to explore the question - how do you set and express…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#008 - Agile Nomadology
What ever happened to the agile revolution that was supposed to come? Or did it already happen and quietly got absorbed into normality for software development…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#007 - Maturity Models
Should you always use a maturity model? And what makes them useful? Furthermore, what is the difference between a model and a framework?
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#006 - Goals and Feedback
What is the difference between fedback and feed-forward? What separates a first order cybernetic system from a second order cybernetic system? And how is this…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#005 - Uncertainty and Predictability
Predictability… what does it mean in complex environments with inherent uncertainty? Is it simple to achieve in enterprise software development organizations…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#004 - Leadership - part 2
What is leadership? As we continue to scrape the surface of that question, in this part two of our conversation we start to touch on the complexity of…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#003 - Leadership - part 1
What is leadership? That is what we are trying to scrape the surface of in this conversation. As this turned out to be a long conversation it is split in two…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#002 - Agile
Is Agile dead? If so, have we already started the transition to the next paradigm? Or, is Ashby’s law reason enough for agility to be immortal? That is what…
Complexity Cogitators Podcast#001 - Culture
What is organizational culture? Is there a definition that clearly explains what you need to know? And in order to influence culture, what should you measure?…