Naming the world we lead in
Cynefin framework and complexity for leaders.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- Where
- VUCA, Uncertainty and Complexity
- Price
- £39
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Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
VUCA is often used as a shrug, yet each of its four letters names a different kind of difficulty that calls for a different response. This module recovers that precision, tracing the term from Bennis and Nanus to the US Army War College, introducing Jamais Cascio's BANI as a companion lens, and applying both to the compounding pressures of local government. It also names common misdiagnoses, including mistaking difficult for complex. Before asking how to solve a problem, leaders need to ask what kind of problem it is. This module works through Snowden and Boone's Cynefin framework: the Clear, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic and Confused domains and the response each calls for. It adds Avanti's own mapping of member and officer relationships from Dr Huish's Cranfield research, the Palatine case, and the costly error of treating complex as complicated.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Distinguish volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, and identify which of the four mainly responds to more information.
- Apply the discipline of asking which letter applies to which specific decision, including where political, financial and statutory pressures compound in local government.
- Identify common misdiagnoses of a VUCA situation, including treating a difficult problem as complex, and describe what BANI adds as an alternative lens.
- Describe the five Cynefin domains and the response pattern each one calls for, from sense, categorise, respond to act, sense, respond.
- Use four locating questions to place a live situation in a domain, and distinguish a Complicated problem from a Complex one.
The Modules.
1 hour 30 minutes of learning.
- 01Foundations: Naming the World We're Actually Leading InVUCA is often used as a shrug, yet each of its four letters names a different kind of difficulty that calls for a different response. This module recovers that precision, tracing the term from Bennis and Nanus to the US Army War College, introducing Jamais Cascio's BANI as a companion lens, and applying both to the compounding pressures of local government. It also names common misdiagnoses, including mistaking difficult for complex.40 min
- 02The Cynefin Framework: Making Sense of ComplexityBefore asking how to solve a problem, leaders need to ask what kind of problem it is. This module works through Snowden and Boone's Cynefin framework: the Clear, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic and Confused domains and the response each calls for. It adds Avanti's own mapping of member and officer relationships from Dr Huish's Cranfield research, the Palatine case, and the costly error of treating complex as complicated.41 min
Keep going.
Part of the VUCA, Uncertainty and Complexity topic, also sold whole as Clear heads in a complex world.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 30 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, Making sense of the mess, 2 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Making sense of complexity, 4 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, Clear heads in a complex world, 8 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Beyond our own walls, When there is no right answer
Other Bitesize in the VUCA, Uncertainty and Complexity topic
- Wicked, not just difficultWicked problems, uncertainty and risk1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Probe, sense, respondSensemaking in complex systems with Cynefin1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Seeing round cornersScenario planning and strategic foresight1 hour 15 minutes£39
- A considered answer to VUCAVUCA Prime and reframing complex problems1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Living systems, real casesComplex adaptive systems and case studies1 hour 15 minutes£39
