Keil Eggers
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This week I’m reviewing Transforming the Future: Anticipation in the 20th Century, edited by Riel Miller, who was appointed as the Head of Foresight to UNESCO in 2012, and over 30 other contributors. I came across this book in the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation’s Anticipatory Innovation Governance Working Paper (which is an excellent primer on anticipation in the public…
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For this week’s reading reflection, I read Surfing Uncertainty by Andy Clark, a Professor of Philosophy at University of Edinburgh. I was first introduced to Clark’s work in 2018 when I had the pleasure to attend the HowtheLightGetsIn festival at Hay on Wye with Dave Snowden and the rest of the Cognitive Edge and Cynefin Centre crew.…
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Over the past few weeks, multiple colleagues have asked me about my goals, vision, and where all my work around conflict resolution is headed. Through these conversations, I’ve realized a lot of the work I’ve done to set up pathways forward has been behind the scenes. I hope that this post will at least summarize…
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For this week’s reading reflection, I read Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty a book that articulates several methods and approaches to decision analysis under conditions of uncertainty. The books contributors are members of the DMDU Society which defines ‘deep uncertainty’ as a condition, “when parties to a decision do not know, or cannot agree on, the system model that…
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This week’s reading was Coherence in Thought and Action by Paul Thagard. I chose to read this book because it provides insight into a “naturalized epistemology” and sensemaking that will ground my work with SenseMaker and conflict resolution. Naturalized epistemology means that our ‘ways of knowing’ are limited by how our brains and bodies function. By taking…
Keil Eggers, PhD 