Delivering Health Care in Complex Adaptive Systems III: The Diverse Challenges
We are ready to turn in more detail to mid-21st Century health care and the way in which our understanding and appreciation …
Delivering Health Care in Complex Adaptive Systems II: Portraying and Tracing Implications of Working in a Dynamic System
We might best be able to gain some sense of how complex adaptive systems operate by examining the way in which they appear i…
Delivering Health Care in Complex Adaptive Systems I: The Nature of Dynamic Systems
We face a major challenge in seeking to lead complex mid-21st Century organizations—and this is particularly a challenge reg…
The Complexity of 21st Century Health Care
There is much we can learn from our COVID experiences that would benefit not only our understanding of 21st Century health c…
Tending the Fires of 21st Century Organizations
In this essay I am drawing a comparison between the fire that I tend in my living room hearth and the “tending” that is done…
Carving Up Gracie: The Loss of Integration
“You can’t carve up Gracie!” While this was initially brushed off as just a theatrical gesture that reinforces the important…
The Perfect Storm: Virus, Violence and Dysfunction
We have discovered that there might be a "perfect storm" operating at the point when these three systems interact. Pandemic …
Leading into the Future VIII: Language and Segmentalism
We are moving from a world that uses metaphors of sight (“having a vision of a future world,” “imagining an alternative”) to…
Mapping Effective Covid-19 Engagement: Four Responses to the Challenge
At times we must bring together wisdom, courage and vision—so that we might move forward personally and collectively under t…
The Postmodern Condition: II. Troubling Ambiguity with Shifting Boundaries and Multiple Roles
Frederic Jameson speaks about the troubling ambiguities of the boundaries that exist in this new era. This troubling ambigui…