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Cynefin framework

A square divided into four quadrants named Complex, Complicated, Chaotic and Simple, each with three words such as Probe, Sense, Respond, and a small dark shape at the centre marked Disorder.
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The Cynefin framework is cited as the tool the book uses to distinguish complicated problems from genuinely complex, adaptive systems, helping leaders make sense of different problem domains.
Cited as the framework central to the complicated / complex distinction, helping leaders make sense of different problem domains, which the book uses to separate a complicated machine from a genuinely complex, adaptive system.

In the Framework

  • Complicated versus Complex · concept
  • Wicked Problems · problem type

In the book

  • Chapter 4, section 037 · Complicated vs. Complex: A Crucial Distinction
Methods