The Ecosystem of Wicked Problems – ECOSYSTEMATIC
Our Complex World One way to think about multifaceted and systemic issues, whether addressing climate change, community health, or homelessness, is that they are not merely complicated—they are complex.
David Ehrlichman • Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
First, that the most creative and profound solutions to the most serious, knotty, systemic problems that we face can only be addressed through the application of radical cognitive diversity: the entrainment of the widest possible range of embodied viewpoints and experiences that we can muster. We must also recognize that cognitive diversity extends
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Or so E. F. Schumacher would have us believe. The author of Small is Beautiful and A Guide for the Perplexed distinguished between “convergent problems” (where attempted solutions gradually converge on one answer) and more super-wickedesque “divergent problems” (where different answers appear to increasingly contradict each other the more they are
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