Today has been dominated by social media work and I've updated my profile, so this gives a flavour of what I'm about.
Taking the IMA test via eCademy, I came out as High Blue. I think there's a lot of truth in that. I'm generally perceived as warm and supportive, and I prefer personal contacts to large groups. I'm not very assertive and I can be very patient. I like helping people and find it a challenge to prioritize my own needs (though like all of us I can be selfish at times).
I find Kate Hopkinson's Landscape of the Mind profiles more detailed and illuminating. Kate has developed this work over more than 20 years as the core of her consultancy business. We expect to publish a book about her work at Triarchy Press by the end of this year. In this landscape, our preferences for exercising different inner skills are of most interest. My profile reveals an unusually strong preference for divergent thinking, which means I like to challenge existing conventions and ways of doing things as well as being comfortable with taking different viewpoints on an issue or organization. In common with other high divergers, I find it challenging to work in an organization that has very fixed ways of doing things, as many companies and institutions do. Conversely, organizations frequently don't know how to make best use of our divergent skills. Given the global challenges that look starker every day, we need as much fresh, creative thinking in our organizations as we can get, so we intend to use Landscape of the Mind to support that as far as we can.
My primary job at Triarchy is making contacts with new and existing authors, encouraging them to write for us and helping them develop their writing. This is very warming and rewarding work, and in the course of it I get to work with many different people. We specialize in writing that helps us understand and implement organizational and social transformation: Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Cultural Theory, Complexity Theory. We like to work closely with people and organizations who do this work such as the International Futures Forum, the Ackoff Virtual Inquiry Center group and the LSE Complexity Group.
All that said, I spend much of my time engaged with digital technology. I trained in logic and the mathematics of computation and my PhD is in Mathematical Logic. Two years of post-doctoral work followed at the Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science at Edinburgh University. Then I lectured for 12 years in the Theory of Computation, Software Engineering and Logic at Sheffield University and worked with Michael Mendler to develop a new brand of modal logic. I taught A-level and GCSE-level Mathematics for a while as a private tutor and I've been an associate lecturer with the Open University for the last 6 years, currently teaching Mathematical methods and models.
Now I'm developing a Drupal website for Triarchy and I'm in charge of producing e-books. This has meant learning how to create and edit epub and mobi content and how to sell e-books on Amazon and through other outlets.
Other current interests are programming in Mathematica, mathematics, particularly geometry (see an animation created with Mathematica that illustrates my work in geometry; the coordinates have been calculated symbolically so they are exact), permaculture (we've begun by planting an orchard in a Fibonacci pattern on our land at Thornleigh Saddle), music (I'm fond of Bach, Beethoven, Alkan, Arvo Pärt, Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble, Julian Marshall and singing with Glorious Chorus), 5 rhythms, especially with Jo Hardy, the poetry of the Sufis Hafiz, Rumi and friends...
Taking the IMA test via eCademy, I came out as High Blue. I think there's a lot of truth in that. I'm generally perceived as warm and supportive, and I prefer personal contacts to large groups. I'm not very assertive and I can be very patient. I like helping people and find it a challenge to prioritize my own needs (though like all of us I can be selfish at times).
I find Kate Hopkinson's Landscape of the Mind profiles more detailed and illuminating. Kate has developed this work over more than 20 years as the core of her consultancy business. We expect to publish a book about her work at Triarchy Press by the end of this year. In this landscape, our preferences for exercising different inner skills are of most interest. My profile reveals an unusually strong preference for divergent thinking, which means I like to challenge existing conventions and ways of doing things as well as being comfortable with taking different viewpoints on an issue or organization. In common with other high divergers, I find it challenging to work in an organization that has very fixed ways of doing things, as many companies and institutions do. Conversely, organizations frequently don't know how to make best use of our divergent skills. Given the global challenges that look starker every day, we need as much fresh, creative thinking in our organizations as we can get, so we intend to use Landscape of the Mind to support that as far as we can.
My primary job at Triarchy is making contacts with new and existing authors, encouraging them to write for us and helping them develop their writing. This is very warming and rewarding work, and in the course of it I get to work with many different people. We specialize in writing that helps us understand and implement organizational and social transformation: Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Cultural Theory, Complexity Theory. We like to work closely with people and organizations who do this work such as the International Futures Forum, the Ackoff Virtual Inquiry Center group and the LSE Complexity Group.
All that said, I spend much of my time engaged with digital technology. I trained in logic and the mathematics of computation and my PhD is in Mathematical Logic. Two years of post-doctoral work followed at the Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science at Edinburgh University. Then I lectured for 12 years in the Theory of Computation, Software Engineering and Logic at Sheffield University and worked with Michael Mendler to develop a new brand of modal logic. I taught A-level and GCSE-level Mathematics for a while as a private tutor and I've been an associate lecturer with the Open University for the last 6 years, currently teaching Mathematical methods and models.
Now I'm developing a Drupal website for Triarchy and I'm in charge of producing e-books. This has meant learning how to create and edit epub and mobi content and how to sell e-books on Amazon and through other outlets.
Other current interests are programming in Mathematica, mathematics, particularly geometry (see an animation created with Mathematica that illustrates my work in geometry; the coordinates have been calculated symbolically so they are exact), permaculture (we've begun by planting an orchard in a Fibonacci pattern on our land at Thornleigh Saddle), music (I'm fond of Bach, Beethoven, Alkan, Arvo Pärt, Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble, Julian Marshall and singing with Glorious Chorus), 5 rhythms, especially with Jo Hardy, the poetry of the Sufis Hafiz, Rumi and friends...
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