A great article about the way W.L. Gore organizes itself which is essential an open space organization. Leadership is everywhere and passion and responsibility dictate what gets done. “Gore also believes that leadership has to be earned. It embraces what it calls “natural leadership.” Leaders at Gore gains influence by developing a track record for getting things done, and excelling at team building. They have to be talent magnets. As one associate explained “We vote with our feet. If you call a meeting and no one shows up, you’re probably not a leader because no one is willing to follow …
Just out from an Art of Hosting practitioner. The guide is a free download: The Lotus – A Practice Guide for Authentic Leadership in Strategic Sustainable Development – presents nine personal leadership capacities that authentic leaders find essential in their work when facilitating large-scale, complex, transformational change in organisations and communities. Furthermore, it suggests practices (ranging from contemplative and spiritual to physical, engaging both head, heart and hands) that help in developing your personal leadership capacities via The Lotus | A Practice Guide for Authentic Leadership in Strategic Sustainable Development.
Three little words to bear in mind. Tuesday Ryan-Hart and I recorded this little video as part of a series for the ALIA Summer Institute faculty. We were asked to reflect on what three words were important in thinking about what change for good really takes. This was our contribution.
I am here in the Morton Arboretum in Chicago where we are at the end of the first day of an Art of Hosting with our friends in the Illinois community of practice. We have just been harvesting out of a World Cafe that was held on the question of “What time it is in the world?” We used a design I have been using with teams and communities that are needing to do deep sensing. We went for three rounds on the same question and had the hosts at each table go and deeper into the conversations that were …