Apropos of my post a couple of days back on vision and action comes a nice quote from Flemming: The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done — that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors …
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The Indian Rope Trick, whereby a “fakir” suspends a rope in mid air and has an accomplice climb it, provides a rich ground to examine the enduring nature of mental models and other stories we force ourselves to believe. The New York Times > Books >This whole piece is worth the read but here’s the money shot: So…perhaps the true secret of the Indian Rope Trick is the way the supple human memory combines events we’ve really seen with legends we’ve only heard, and shapes them into the best possible story to tell our grandchildren.” What’s interesting to me is …
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I was being interviewed today for an article on Open Space Technology and something blurted out of my mouth that I thought was worth keeping, or at least investigating a little more. We talk about Open Space being fueled by passion bounded by responsibility. I said in the interview that everything that has happened, everything that surrounds us, owes its existence to someone bringing together passion and responsibility. And everything that we don’t have lies out of reach as long as there isn’t enough passion and responsibility working together to create it. What do you think? Am I just talking …
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Fouro has it right: Had a conversation this weekend–several, actually–about how one goes about changing an organization. In the course of chatting I realized something simple: You can’t change organizations. You can only reveal them to themselves. And they like what they see. Or not.” Once we reveal ourselves to ourselves we can begin to heal, effect changes, choose futures, reconnect pieces and establish life again. And organizations reveal themselves through story seen through eyes and ears attuned to deeper meaning.
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A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery, a vision and a task is the hope of the world From an article called Making it Up and Making it Happen I was working with an Aboriginal group the other day developing a vision and mission statement. Lately I have been looking at how we actually create these things in a way that is authentic and appreciative instead of top-down and prescriptive. I’ve never been a big fan of the “Vision Statement,” being the kind of guy that eschews fixed statements of fact …