In Lisbon, I sat down with Sonja Blignaut before her talk at the World Agility Forum. Sonja founded More Beyond, co-founded ComplexityFit, and was CEO of Cognitive Edge, now The Cynefin Co.
Preparing the talk
Sonja walks through how she prepared her talk. She describes the challenge of navigating complexity in the Agile world, where many people still treat it as a problem to solve.
Embracing complexity
We talk about embracing complexity. Sonja wants people to work with it and learn to move through it. She calls that practice wayfinding.
The Boyd archives
Sonja visited the John Boyd archives. That visit shaped how she understands perception and wayfinding, and she shares what she found there.
Boyd’s work keeps orientation at the center, and Sonja connects it to how people find their way through uncertainty.
Where in your work are you trying to solve something that you need to learn to move through?
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https://youtube.com/@nowayoutpodcast