My friends Peggy Holman and Anne Stadler are working on a book. That’s not news, as either of these very interesting women has a book’s worth of wisdom ready to share at all times. What’s news is that I finally got around to reviewing the starter they posted called Emergent Organizations, and it is a provocative piece. The paper outlines the central thesis of their work of the past few years, which is harnessing the spirit of large scale change events and translating them throughout organizations to sustain the moment. This is a pet concern for me as well, as …
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My son Finn and me. Goofing around on a Saturday afternoon in the long grass.
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Nice quote from Thoughts On Business: “THE PRONOUN TEST: For six months now, I’ve been visiting the workplaces of America, administering a simple test. I call it the ‘pronoun test.’ I ask frontline workers a few general questions about the company. If the answers I get back describe the company in terms like ‘they’ and ‘them,’ then I know it’s one kind of company. If the answers are put in terms like ‘we’ or ‘us,’ I know it’s a different kind of company. — ROBERT B. REICH Former U.S. Secretary of Labor” I’ll use that one.
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John Moore responds to my Dalai Lama posting with this gem: I remember a teacher holding his hand out before me in a fist. “This is not a heart,” he said. Then he opened it fully. “And this is not a heart.”. Then he started to move it open-and-closed, to and fro. “This is a heart”.
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Ken Wilber’s quadrants from Developing Leadership Capacity: Searching for the Integral Those familiar with my work will know that a lot of what I do is informed by the models designed by Ken Wilber which explain an integrated approach to, well, everything. Wilber’s classic four quadrants model inspired Michael Herman’s quadrants which underpin his book Inviting Organization, and that book has informed a great deal of my own work. So that’s the lineage. I found an excellent paper today, Developing Leadership Capacity: Searching for the Integral, which translates Wilber’s work into some very useful questions and then describes leadership styles …