Podcasts by The Clock and the Cat

Episode 10 - How to make good telly from 2023-06-09T16:13:35

This episode is another conversation with Daniel Thornton (like Episode 2 but this time with bells on) about Covid, companies dying, electric cars, corpora...

Episode 9 - Experimental Finland from 2020-02-19T18:42:09

This episode is a conversation with Olli-Pekka Heinonen - currently the civil servant responsible for primary and secondary education in Finland - about his experience of applying compl...

Episode 8 - Not systems thinking from 2020-01-13T20:41:46

This episode is a conversation with Eric Wenzel about his experience of the theory of complex responsive processes of relating.

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Episode 7 - Turning the purpose of management upside-down from 2019-11-04T15:12:41

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“The idea of complexity helped us explain why outcome based performance management [is failing]” - 3:09

“Outcome based per...

Episode 6 - Trust, Gestalt and the Inflatable Elephant from 2019-03-13T09:47:16

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> "The environment we're in changes who we are and what we bring." - 6:55

> "Gestalt for me is about ... it's about the whole and about the par...

Episode 5 - Experimenting from 2019-02-15T15:40:42

Main points

- Losing Control movement - 2:00 / 31:00

- Emphasis on evidence-based policy - 5:15

- The difference between Explicit and Tacit knowledge and the i...

Episode 4 - How to learn about complexity from 2019-01-11T17:55:32

References

Book - Quark and the Jaguar - Murray Gell-Mann

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Episode 3 - What complexity actually is from 2019-01-08T17:08:39

Roland Kupers - Bio

Roland is an independent advisor on Complexity, Resilience and Energy Transition.

He Dutch and speaks 4 other languages fluently.

Originall...

Episode 2 - Why big government things go wrong from 2018-12-14T17:26:06

Daniel Thornton - Bio

Daniel studied PPE at Oxford and History at LSE. He’s had huge experience in central government. He worked in the Foreign Office, Parliament, the Tre...

Episode 1 - About the Clock and the Cat from 2018-12-01T12:11:07

For more information read my stuff on complexity or these books:

- The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann

- Complexity ...