Polis: A Breakthrough tool for broader, deeper consensus
Polis is an online survey platform where all the items being surveyed are created by the participants, whose responses to each other’s …
Collective intelligence is only one-sixth of co-intelligence
Many people assume that co-intelligence and collective intelligence are the same thing. They aren’t. Co-intelligence includes collective intelligence plus a whole lot …
Creative Participation of the Whole – a North Star concept
What does it mean to engage the creative participation of the whole? That aspiration is both simpler and more complex than it …
Shrinking our Big Selves: Part 3 of “A big-picture, co-intelligent vision of diversity and privilege”
We are each a complex, networked, ecosystem of a self, not just a role or a race or a name. Beneath our …
Taking a step back from the hot stories of what just happened
I sometimes philosophically joke that the ultimate truth in the universe – the most important thing to know in all circumstances – …
Large-scale collective sense-making processes (Sense-making – Part 5)
I’ve long advocated the use of multiple processes in public and stakeholder engagements so that synergies among them can be tapped. Recently …
More juicy Inquiries into sense-making (Sense-making – Part 3)
In the previous two posts in this “sense-making” series (here and here) I shared several earlier articles on this subject that I …
Why is it so hard to make sense of what’s happening? (Sense-making – Part 2)
There are dozens of reasons why it is so hard to make sense of what’s happening. Here I offer two comprehensive resources …
Making Democracies Worthy of the Name… and More
Democracy is rule of, by and for the people. There are many ways to try doing that. This message looks at a …
Some clarifying big-picture perspectives on the coronavirus
I think we will see everything…people coming together and some with an “every man for himself” attitude. I also hope this is …