New ebook: How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis

I’m really happy with how my How to Be Less Wrong in a Polycrisis blog series turned out, so I’ve pulled the three posts together into an ebook.

The ebook is a more refined and cohesive version, with updated imagery, stronger links between chapters, and a few new examples. You can download it in both PDF and ePUB formats by pressing the button below.

Description

Your strategy keeps failing in ways you didn't predict. Not because you lack intelligence or information, but because the mental models behind your decisions no longer match reality.

This short, practical ebook gives team leads and decision-makers in mission-driven organisations three lenses for thinking more clearly in uncertain times:

• Chapter 1 — how to notice and test the stories you're telling yourself, using epistemic humility and three habits you can start today.
• Chapter 2 — how your tools shape your thinking (for better or worse), with a McLuhan-inspired audit you can run on your own stack.
• Chapter 3 — five structural characteristics that separate organisations that can update their thinking from those that stay stuck.

Written by Dr Doug Belshaw, a systems thinking consultant who works with nonprofits, cooperatives, and social enterprises on how they make decisions under uncertainty.

CC0 — free to share, adapt, and use however you like.

It's free to download, but if you'd like to support this kind of work-in-the-open, paying what you can or sharing widely both help enormously 😀