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Category: Tyranny of the explicit

Johnnie Moore

Conversations in layers

13 August 2013

I stumbled on this crude graphic that I blogged back in 2004. I was making a point about a specific piece of marketing jargon, “brand architecture”. I think the same idea would apply to many of the fancy terms bandied about in organisations. Whatever the intention, it strikes me that

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When reflection doesn’t help…

18 June 2013

Good post from Mind Hacks: When giving reasons leads to worse decisions Hat tip; @IdeaFestival

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Transcending language

7 January 2013

Andrew Sullivan quotes Christian Wiman: I don’t think you can spend your whole life questioning whether language can represent reality. At some point, you have to believe that the inadequacies of words you use will be transcended by the faith with which you use them. You have to believe that

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Steinbeck on writing

13 March 2012

Maria Popova spots this great comment from John Steinbeck. If there is a magic in story writing and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula seems to lie solely

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The perils of the complicated

15 February 2012

Chris Corrigan has a good post on how complicated models masked the complexity of the financial system – and made the perpetrators very rich at everyone’s else’s expense. In these times, we need more honest leadership. Not leadership based on clever imaginings about how the world works but leadership based

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Tyranny of the Explicit

30 November 2011

Following up on yesterday’s post, a second of our tyranny coatpegs it the Tyranny of the Explicit. Viv talks about it here and it’s something I’ve referred to a few times before. Bureaucracies tend to be better at adding rules and procedures than taking them away. Adding rules tends to

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The divided (and interconnected) brain

1 November 2011

Towards the end of this RSA Animate video, psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist quotes Einstein: The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. McGilchrist suggests we now honour the servant trapped in a left brain mode of thinking the emphasises exactitude over the intuitive. It’s

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We’re all talk radio hosts now…

15 September 2010

Jonah Lehrer suggests thinking can often serve to confuse us. He reports research where students had to rate different jams. They managed to come out with similar preferences to expert jam tasters. Then a similar group got the same exercise but with questionnaires to complete so they had to explain

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Podcast: The tyranny of the explicit

30 March 2010

Yesterday I recorded a conversation with Viv McWaters and Roland Harwood on the theme of The Tyranny of the Explicit. We explore how the need for certainty in an uncertain world the over reliance on metrics and the demand that learning be made explicit, can often kill energy in meetings

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Bureaucracy, targets and pseudo-surveys

3 March 2010

Mark Fisher picks up some fairly grim examples of bureaucratic bullying in the public sector and the abuse of targets and surveys. Just reading the absurd form-filling required if a student arrives late to a lecture makes me want to weep. And it’s good to this example of Sussex students

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