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		<title>Complexity and Innovation: A Plexus Institute interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past two years in ALNAP, we have been leading work on humanitarian innovations which resulted in a major study, an international conference and a significant investment in innovation processes by a major donor. It is clear to us that the term innovation is being used more and more across the aid sector, whether by senior leaders like Rajiv [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=799&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global CEO survey reveals primary challenge as addressing the &#8216;complexity gap&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IBM recently released the 2010 Global CEO Survey, its 4th such study since 2004, based on over 1,500 face-to-face interviews with private sector CEOs and senior public sector leaders from 33 different industries spread over sixty countries. A concise summary, drawing on work by Irving Wladawsky-Berger, is below. In the  past three studies, CEOs consistently said that coping with change was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=782&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The collapsing aid system: slow, uneven, with winners and losers</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/04/20/the-collapsing-aid-system-slow-uneven-with-winners-and-losers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Owen Barder recently used a few examples of the work of complexity thinkers, notably Clay Shirker and Joseph Tainter, to suggest that the aid system may be due to collapse imminently, because its own internal complexity would reduce its resilience to the changes that are happening around it. It&#8217;s a powerful argument, and one which is worth building [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=697&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From traffic management to development management?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(2nd of 2 posts exploring  self-organisation and emergence in transport / traffic and the relevance for aid strategies &#8211; first was last week&#8217;s piece on slime moulds) Traffic planners are increasingly moving away from signs and regulations to increase traffic safety and address congestion. Rather than legislating for driver behaviour, they are requiring drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=578&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slime mould, simple rules and the politics of self-organisation</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/02/15/slime-mould-simple-rules-and-the-politics-of-self-organisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Copying nature’s ideas allows people to harness the power of evolution to come up with clever products. Now a group of researchers has taken this idea a step further by using an entire living organism—a slime mould—to solve a complex problem. In this case, the challenge was to design an efficient rail network for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=580&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There is no such thing as a natural disaster&#8221;: crises, complexity and the role of theory</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/02/03/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-natural-disaster-crises-complexity-and-the-role-of-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the few weeks following the Haiti earthquake, much of our work at ALNAP has focused on getting key operational lessons from previous earthquakes into the hands and minds of operational agency staff, and briefing media representatives on a variety of issues related to the relief and recovery work.  As the initial signs of some kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=517&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Job An Open System?</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/01/14/is-your-job-an-open-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Tate is a leadership specialist who focuses on the use of systems approaches to understand and improve leadership development. On his new Systemic Leadership blog, he has written about the challenge of writing and fulfilling job descriptions in a complex environments. His ideas have some resonance with a  popular November 2009 post on the Peter Principle and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=506&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social media, complexity science and an age-old information challenge for aid agencies</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/01/07/social-media-complexity-science-and-an-age-old-information-challenge-for-aid-agencies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a visible and growing interest in complexity science among social media specialists. This interest is highlighting  once again some longstanding flaws in the information approaches of aid agencies. In a recent interview, Arthur L. Jue, co-author of &#8216;Social Media at Work&#8216; has suggested that both social media and Open Space Technology share a common basis in the ideas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=449&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons in Distributed Leadership from the Obama Campaign</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2009/12/04/lessons-in-distributed-leadership-from-the-obama-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama presidential campaign owed its victory not to a single charismatic candidate, but to the efforts of a disciplined and motivated organisation whose influences go back to landmark civil rights movements. Many of the principles were consistent with the emerging ideas of &#8216;complex adaptive leadership&#8217;. A recent MIT lecture featured Marshall Ganz, veteran of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=369&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urbanisation, complexity and poverty – or why aid agencies should be reading Jane Jacobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jane Jacobs, renowned urban scholar and grass-roots activist, has recently topped the Planetizen list of the 100 leading Urban Thinkers by an ’impossibly wide lead’. Jacobs is something of a heroine for many communities around the world, real and virtual, not least the complexity science community. She approached cities as ecosystems and suggested that over time, buildings, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=313&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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