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		<title>Aid on the Edge of Chaos will be offline for a few weeks&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/06/30/aid-on-the-edge-of-chaos-will-be-offline-for-a-few-weeks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;while Ben is on paternity leave. Normal service to resume at the end of July&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=812&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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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>Compiling evaluation and complexity resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 14:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all those interested in or attending the Evaluation Revisited conference this week, here is a very rapid compilation of free-to-download presentations and reports plus details of meetings and websites which may be of interest. Please do add more resources using the comments function below&#8230; Presentations: Mokoro Presentations on Monitoring and Evaluating complex development given [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=762&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gazing at the fingerprints of chaos in the UK elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 08:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the middle of the 19th century, one of the most widely publicised scientific struggles was to predict the motion of planetary bodies. Using Newtonian mechanics, it was simple enough to calculate the trajectory of one or two planets. However, when a third was added into the mix, the equations become complex and incomprehensible. Steven Strogatz described [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=740&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons rising from the ash</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/05/03/lessons-rising-from-the-ash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 22:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the 1970s, systems thinker Russell Ackoff argued that some of the greatest problems happen when messy problems are dealt with as if they were simple puzzles. The true extent of interconnectedness and interdependence of the world we live in is ignored or downplayed until a crisis &#8211; i.e. when it is already too late. Time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=694&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times Article on Making Sense of Complexity</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/05/02/new-york-times-article-on-making-sense-of-complexity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 16:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s New York Times Review has a nice piece  on &#8216;making sense of complexity&#8217; which cites the work of Brenda Zimmerman, noted complexity specialist whose work on health systems has featured on two previous Aid on the Edge posts (here and here). Here it is in full: The Great Recession and the wars in Iraq and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=731&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What happens when you are busy making other plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bramalingam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Lennon famously quipped that life was what happened when you were busy making other plans. A new book Dynamic Sustainabilities: Technology, Environment, Social Justice from the fantastic STEPS centre at the University of Sussex focuses on how much the same contradiction plays out in the global movements toward development, environmental sustainability and social justice. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=725&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Powerpoint, complexity and the art of hypnotising chickens</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/04/27/powerpoint-complexity-and-the-art-of-hypnotising-chickens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in yesterday&#8217;s NY Times launches a scathing attack on the use of Powerpoint in the US military, and draws some interesting conclusions about how such tools can inhibit understanding of complexity. Exhibit A, below, is a now-infamous slide that is intended to represent the complexity of American military strategy in Afghanistan. As General Stanley A. McChrystal, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=715&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Latest in &#8220;aid net-oric&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://aidontheedge.info/2010/04/22/latest-in-aid-net-oric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent piece of work has led to the coining of the phrase &#8216;aid net-oric&#8217; (pron: net-er-ik) &#8211; a form of rhetoric which applies to exaggerated and bombastic use of the term &#8216;network&#8217; in the aid sector. Once you start looking, you can see potential examples of &#8216;aid net-oric&#8217; everywhere, from political manifestos to organisational [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aidontheedge.info&blog=10132762&post=703&subd=aidontheedge&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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