Observeren nodig voor AWBZ transitie

Als je mensen vraagt wat ze anders willen, dan is het antwoord meestal een beetje minder van dit of een beetje meer van dat. Mensen passen zich meestal aan en daardoor blijft de bestaande situatie het uitgangspunt en is ‘outside the box-denken’ een lastige opgave.

“Henry Ford understood this when he remarked, “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said ‘a faster horse.’” This is why traditional techniques such as focus groups and surveys, which in most cases simply ask people what they want, rarely yield important insights. The tools of conventional market research can be useful in pointing toward incremental improvements, but they will never lead to those rule-breaking, game-changing, paradigm-shifting breakthroughs that leave us scratching our heads and wondering why nobody ever thought of them before.”

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Dakloos in London (2)

Dit is deel twee van de mooie BBC-documentaire “On the Streets” over daklozen in London. Filmmaker Penny Woolcock heeft acht maanden lang daklozen gevolgd en hun leven in kaart gebracht. De beelden spreken voor zich.

Ga er even voor zitten en neem de tijd. (Volgende week deel 3.)

Self Comes to Mind

Nog een keer dan. Over het welles-nietes-spel rond het brein en wat we zijn.

“Naturalizing the conscious mind and planting it firmly in the brain does not diminish the role of culture in the construction of human beings, does not reduce human dignity, and does not mark the end of mystery and puzzlement. Cultures arise and evolve from collective efforts of human brains, over many generations, and some cultures even die in the process. They require brains that have already been shaped by prior cultural effects. The significance of cultures to the making of the modern human mind is not in question. Nor is the dignity of that human mind diminished by connecting it to the astonishing complexity and beauty to be found inside living cells and tissues. On the contrary, connecting personhood to biology is a ceaseless source of awe and respect for anything human. Last, naturalizing the mind may solve one mystery but only to raise the curtain on other mysteries quietly awaiting their turn.”

[Damasio, A. (2010) Self Comes to Mind. New York: Pantheon books, p.29.]

Dakloos in London (1)

Dit is deel een van de mooie BBC-documentaire “On the Streets” over daklozen in London. Filmmaker Penny Woolcock heeft acht maanden lang daklozen gevolgd en hun leven in kaart gebracht. De beelden spreken voor zich.

Ga er even voor zitten en neem de tijd. (Volgende week deel 2.)

Doen en denken

“Nurses (and physicians) like everyone else, make sense by acting thinkingly, which means that they simultaneously interpret their knowledge with trusted frameworks, yet mistrust those very same frameworks by testing new frameworks and new interpretattions. The underlying assupmtion in each case is that ignorance and knowledge coexsist, which means that adaptive sensemaking both honors and rejects the past.”

 

[Weick K.E., Sutcliffe K.M. & Obstfeld D (2009). Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking. In: Weick K.E. (2009). Making Sense of the Organization: the impermanent organization. West Sussex: Wiley. p.137]