Category: Practical Wisdom

• A Relational View of Uncertainty

  “A Relational View of Uncertainty” There is significant confusion and debate in entrepreneurship and strategy research about the nature and locus of uncertainty. Does uncertainty reside internally in the agent or externally in the environment? This article introduces a relational view of uncertainty (RVU) to help reframe this issue. In this framework, uncertainty is understood…

  walterstiers

  2025-10-03

  #Sensemaking, Complexity, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty, artificial-intelligence, philosophy, Science

• Critical Thinking for Medicine—Moving Beyond Illness Scripts

  “Critical Thinking for 21st-CenturyMedicine—Moving Beyond Illness Scripts” Clinical Reasoning for 21st-Century Medicine: Optimal clinical reasoning will involve an appropriate balance betweenillness scripts and pathophysiological reasoning. In our view, medical education has historically overemphasized the former—to which learners are predisposed even without explicit teaching— and underemphasized the latter. The risks of this historical approach will become…

  walterstiers

  2025-09-29

  Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• “Play should always be led by the child and what the child wants to do”

  “Why kids need to take more risks: science reveals the benefits of wild, free play” Studies reveal how risky play can benefit child development. But encouraging it can be a challenge for parents. Over the past two decades, research has emerged showing that opportunities for risky play are crucial for healthy physical, mental and emotional development.…

  walterstiers

  2025-09-10

  Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, children, education, family, mental-health, parenting

• Beyond thinking fast and slow: clinical reasoning

  “Beyond thinking fast and slow: a Bayesian intuitionist model of clinical reasoning” Clinical reasoning is a quintessential aspect of medical training and practice, and is a topic that has been studied and written about extensively over the past few decades. However, the predominant conceptualisation of clinical reasoning has insofar been extrapolated from cognitive psychological theories…

  walterstiers

  2025-09-09

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom, Science, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, health, mental-health, technology

• Therapy That Isn’t Psychotherapy

  I found this nice discours on an interesting topic, related with individual challlenges, AI and related tools appearing in this relation. Therapy That Isn’t Psychotherapy by Steven Reidbord Reducing the problem to a merely external one leads to therapy that resembles political advocacy; therapy that prizes agreement (“validation”) over all else; therapy that absolves the patient…

  walterstiers

  2025-06-22

  Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

• A Knowledge Exchange Playbook to Build Resilience

  “A Knowledge Exchange Playbook to Build Resilience” Hinrichs, Margaret M. and Patricia Solís (Editors). (2021). A KnowledgeExchange Playbook to Build Resilience. Tempe: Knowledge Exchange for Resilience, Arizona StateUniversity. Washington, D.C.: Global Council for Science and the Environment.Available online at https://resilience.asu.edu/playbook In the face of profound shock and change, individuals, organizations, and communities are seeking new…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-24

  #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

• The power of mathematical models for better policy decisions

  “Harnessing the power of mathematical models for better policy decisions” sets out four practical recommendations to help policymakers across a wide range of policy areas effectively capitalise on, and sidestep pitfalls of, using mathematical models for decision-making. Decision-makers are often keen to “follow the science” in highly-charged contexts such as climate policy, pandemic response, economic…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-15

  #Sensemaking, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Information Technology, Innovation Games, Practical Wisdom, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, education, philosophy, technology

• Nested hierarchies in skills – importance of basic education

  In many careers, a person must learn foundational skills before advancing deeper into their profession. Computer programmers need a solid foundation in basic mathematics; nurses must gain clinical experience and specialized training to become nurse practitioners; a negotiator’s ability to persuade depends on solid communication and active-listening skills. A recent paper published in Nature Human Behaviour mapped the dependency…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-15

  #sense-making, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #emergence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, education, skills, technology

• Greatness Cannot Be Planned

  Why does modern life revolve around objectives? From how science is funded, to improving how children are educated — and nearly everything in-between — our society has become obsessed with a seductive illusion: that greatness results from doggedly measuring improvement in the relentless pursuit of an ambitious goal. In Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned—The Myth of…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-02

  #Sensemaking, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Innovation Games, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Science

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, consciousness, history, philosophy, Science, spirituality

• 7 communication reasons organizations do not change

  “The seven communication reasons organizations do not change“ Results of this study point to the limitations of management and impersonal communication. Change is a messy business, and transformational change will not happen unless management is willing to tolerate the ambiguity and the sense that emerges in communication. Results also point to the importance of communication…

  walterstiers

  2025-04-01

  #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Information Technology, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #TheInformationLens