Sonja Blignaut
@sonjabl
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[email protected] [email protected] Enabling #complexity fitness. #Cynefin #Sensemaker #Waysfinder
South Africa
Joined December 2008
RT @cunningham_char: Wayfinding in Complexity: Threads from an Emerging (and Remembered) Field by @sonjabl
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When Mushfiqa Jamaluddin recently shared this co-authored book chapter with me, I was delighted. It’s the kind of piece I would have loved…
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RT @HelenBevan: I appreciate all the feedback (including the challenges) to the work I'm doing with @goranhenriks & others around how we en….
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I just published Lost in Translation - reflections on the challenges of finding language in new frontiers.
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Reflections on finding language for new frontiers
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Complexity brings beauty & nuance to our art & stories . Complexity enlivens relationships & conversations . Complexity powers the rich, interconnected web of life . Life without complexity would not be worth living. In fact, without it, life as we know it couldn't exist.
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We demonize complexity when we make it synonymous with "problem". We know that not all problems are complex, but we need a reminder that complexity is not always a problem. Complexity isn’t good or bad, it just is. Opportunity also lies within the complexity.
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RT @tala201677: "If you’re just thinking and not actually moving, you’re not waysfinding yet…. Whenever we take a step, our situation chang….
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I recently delivered the keynote address at a Change and Transformation conference. As I listened to the speakers, I was struck by the…
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RT @GleesonEileen: 'The difficulty of complex thought is that it must face messes … interconnectedness among phe- nomena, fogginess, uncert….
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I have written before about the need to embrace messy coherence or in more technical terms, coherent heterogeneity, a term I first…
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I just published Finding your way through the messy middle.
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I recently delivered the keynote address at a Change and Transformation conference. As I listened to the speakers, I was struck by the…
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RT @JvanderB78: “Embracing messy coherence requires us to let go of long-held assumptions of a world where stability, certainty and predict….
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I have written before about the need to embrace messy coherence or in more technical terms, coherent heterogeneity, a term I first…
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NEW PODCAST EPISODE WITH NATASHA REDMAN - COMPLEXITY FITNESS:. - What is #complexityfitness?.- How can an organisation get complexity fit?.- What is #waysfinding? .- #beCOOL when finding yourself or your organisation in uncharted waters.
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RT @mikey3982: “If everything was certain where would adventure be” from @sonjabl great talk about #complexity
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My talk at the 2023 Lisbon World #Agility forum . #complexity is not a problem to solve or something to avoid . it is an invitation to become explorers and #wayfinders that co-create completely different futures . #beCOOL #complexityfitness.
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RT @cunningham_char: As always, lots of food for reflection. Thank you Sonja! “We can meet the complexity with complexity.” — @sonjabl http….
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We tend to talk about complexity as something “out there”. A wicked problem to solve, a mess to order, a source of overwhelm and confusion…
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If you're in Cape Town on 3 November, consider joining me and @teamcoach for a workshop on Wayfinding Leadership. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn from Michael's work with some innovative European companies. Seats are limited.
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RT @sbkaufman: “If you can approach the world’s complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, ackno….
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RT @DanHarley3: Sonja Blignaut – Leading in Complexity by Curating Context. @sonjabl.
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Summary of Sonja Blignaut’s master class in the Leading Complexity Program 2022 on Leading in complexity using the concept of curating context.
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"Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century." - Jay W. Forrester.
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On getting lost - can we disband our armies and go beyond what we know? ."And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender…" - Rebecca Solnit
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Being really and truly lost triggers primal survival anxieties.
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