We are moving from a world of problems, which demand speed, analysis, and elimination of uncertainty to solve, to a world of dilemmas, which demand patience, sense-making, and an engagement of uncertainty.
– Denise Caron (via stoweboyd)
Paul Higgins: Can be expressed as a move from complicated to complex where we move from systems thinking to complexity thinking
(via emergentfutures)
Rafael Fajardo to Mr. Higgins: I think that your word choice is potentially confusing and would like to offer the following… Systems thinking in the traditions of Donella Meadows, Horst Rittel, and Norbert Weiner – and I would add Lars Qvortrup and Eric Zimmerman – is complexity thinking. We do seem to need a term or phrase, though, to provide the contast you are intending…