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Current Posts
The Adaptive Space Imperative
How does your organization address the threat of “disruption”? This question has become a mainstay of most strategic conversations, in large part because the conditions for entire industries, social, economic and certainly business systems are being broken apart, thrown into disorder and [...]
Constraints Free Creativity
Do most innovators and creative thinkers relish the freedom to let their imaginations run wild? Or can their "creativity" flourish with the discipline of constraints? If your immediate answer is constraints limit creativity and innovation, consider how constraints, like simple rules serve [...]
DRAWN to CONNECT
Plexus launches a high engagement, experiential online learning series called Drawn to Connect with the first four week workshop. DRAWN to CONNECT, will be held online from June 3 - June 29, 2018. Online course opens on June 3rd and continues through June [...]
A Moment of Complexity
At pivotal moments throughout history, technological innovation triggers massive social and cultural transformation. Apparently unrelated developments, which had been gradually unfolding for years, suddenly converge to create changes that are as disruptive as they are creative. We are currently living in a [...]
Artists and Systems, a Relationship – #plexusdrawn
Artists. Hearing the word artist conjures a myriad of ideas, assumptions and perspectives about artists. Each of us has our own understanding of what an artist is and does based on our experiences, education and feelings. Part of why people have many [...]
The Art of “Revealing” Complex Systems – #plexusdrawn
A New Language for Understanding and Working in Complex Systems Emerges As practitioners of complexity visualization and thinking, we simply look at complex environments differently. What we do is make the invisible visual -- we help reveal through imagery the unique properties of [...]