Professor Kevin Fong, The UK Covid Inquiry, a heeding for anyone in a position of power. This post draws on Fong's evidence and explores insights about the limits of traditional measurement, the need to rebalance the 'socio' human aspects of complex socio-technical systems, and explores the role of care and support in change.
First of all. Lovely to find your voice in this platform!
Second. Great article and I like the provocation.
What concerns me, is the binary thinking or uni-directional focus that means we’re in an either or rather than both/and. It’s easy to stop looking once you have data that’s telling you what you or don’t want to hear, if you have a single focus!
How do we not only hear more about the truth of the worker but also enable the leaders to deal with the paradox that what they are being told isn’t what the data is telling them?
Hello!!!! Lovely to find you here too. Ah yes this binary thinking and over-reliance on hard data!!! Have you heard of Nora Bateson’s ‘warm data’ work? I’m intruiged by it. https://batesoninstitute.org/warm-data/
Very much my wheelhouse here! Finding the meaning behind the data and numbers is my livelihood and I'll forever fight to make sure we hear what people have to say about issues (and seek the people out who are seldom heard in many instances).
Really interesting piece, thank you for highlighting Fong's work. Lovely to see you on Substack.
I find it slightly social mediaish, which I don't love (the likes, the notes, the suggestions it makes) but I've pared it down to following people I'm genuinely interested in hearing from (Peter Apps for example) and I'm only writing for my own pleasure/catharsis(!) so I'm not here for the money (I have no interest in having paid subscribers and certainly don't want to feel under pressure to write).
Yes I don't want to make money from writing on here. But wanting to stop my blog as Grenfell Inquiry now over and I just don't have the will to continue - and I can archive all my posts on here. So trying it out to see if that makes sense to do.
First of all. Lovely to find your voice in this platform!
Second. Great article and I like the provocation.
What concerns me, is the binary thinking or uni-directional focus that means we’re in an either or rather than both/and. It’s easy to stop looking once you have data that’s telling you what you or don’t want to hear, if you have a single focus!
How do we not only hear more about the truth of the worker but also enable the leaders to deal with the paradox that what they are being told isn’t what the data is telling them?
Hello!!!! Lovely to find you here too. Ah yes this binary thinking and over-reliance on hard data!!! Have you heard of Nora Bateson’s ‘warm data’ work? I’m intruiged by it. https://batesoninstitute.org/warm-data/
Very much my wheelhouse here! Finding the meaning behind the data and numbers is my livelihood and I'll forever fight to make sure we hear what people have to say about issues (and seek the people out who are seldom heard in many instances).
Really interesting piece, thank you for highlighting Fong's work. Lovely to see you on Substack.
Oh how lovely to see you here. Thinking of stopping my blog and moving to here. How are you finding it.
I find it slightly social mediaish, which I don't love (the likes, the notes, the suggestions it makes) but I've pared it down to following people I'm genuinely interested in hearing from (Peter Apps for example) and I'm only writing for my own pleasure/catharsis(!) so I'm not here for the money (I have no interest in having paid subscribers and certainly don't want to feel under pressure to write).
I'd love to know how you find it.
Yes I don't want to make money from writing on here. But wanting to stop my blog as Grenfell Inquiry now over and I just don't have the will to continue - and I can archive all my posts on here. So trying it out to see if that makes sense to do.