Backing Into My Future

The title of this post comes from one of the exercises in David Snowden's seminar on Complexity and Sensemaking by the name of Future Backwards.

I returned yesterday from attending a three-day course in the theory and practices of Complexity and Sensemaking as created by David Snowden, the Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge (growing out of the IBM Cynefin Centre For Organisational Complexity, a core element of IBM's Global Business Consulting Services), now a small startup (as David puts it).

I can honestly say that in some key senses it is the best seminar (or course or workshop) that I have attended in my life.