The Clock and the Cat
A podcast of conversations about complexity
- Update frequency
- every 81 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2024
Episode 11 - Don't Panic
This episode is a conversation with Johnnie Moore about his inspiring work as facilitator
Johnnie Moore - Bio
Johnnie Moore is a great facilitator, He's written two books about it - Creative Facilitat…
Episode 10 - How to make good telly
This episode is another conversation with Daniel Thornton (like Episode 2 but this time with bells on) about Covid, companies dying, electric cars, corporate bullshit, and the Succession series.
Danie…
Episode 9 - Experimental Finland
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 complexity thinking…
Episode 8 - Not systems thinking
This episode is a conversation with Eric Wenzel about his experience of the theory of complex responsive processes of relating.
Selected quotes
"And it took me the three years of the [Doctor of Mangeme…
Episode 7 - Turning the purpose of management upside-down
Selected quotes
“The idea of complexity helped us explain why outcome based performance management [is failing]” - 3:09
“Outcome based performance management … and New Public Management … is conceptual…
Episode 6 - Trust, Gestalt and the Inflatable Elephant
Selected quotes
> "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 parts." - 8:30
> "How do we build enough trust…
Episode 5 - Experimenting
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 importance of place - 6:30
- Cultural barrier…
Episode 4 - How to learn about complexity
References
Book - Quark and the Jaguar - Murray Gell-Mann
Book - Complexity - Mitchell Waldrop
Book - Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics - Ralph Stacey
Book - The Nature of Technology - Bri…
Episode 3 - What complexity actually is
Roland Kupers - Bio
Roland is an independent advisor on Complexity, Resilience and Energy Transition.
He Dutch and speaks 4 other languages fluently.
Originally a theoretical physicist he’s worked in bu…
Episode 2 - Why big government things go wrong
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 Treasury, DCLG and has been a Pr…
Episode 1 - About the Clock and the Cat
For more information read my stuff on complexity or these books:
- The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann
- Complexity by Michael Waldrop