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Lead in Complexity
Engineers know a lot about pressure: Boyle’s Law, pounds per square inch, and cold fronts that bring thunderstorms in the summer. You know about pressure, too: Deadlines, politics, demands, more with less, and forward farther and faster.
Build Adaptive Capacity
Mary Nations, shares a church service she recently helped to design and deliver as they explored the impact of difference and bias. It’s a powerful study of courage in the face of fear and how narratives—spoken, sung, and read—can share the lessons we must learn from the history that’s described in her homily.
Health CareManage Strategic Change
May 7, 2015
You make choices every day that have an impact on all areas of your life. Use HSD to ensure that those choices support health and wellbeing for yourself, your family, team, organization, and community today and for years to come.
You have an important story to tell. Whatever it is, your story is unique to you, and it is your opportunity to share who you are, what you do, and the place you stand in the world. You depend on your story to draw clients and customers to your business; to engage people in your interests; and to call them to action.
Build Adaptive Capacity
Radical Inquiry is a process of reflection and exploration that helps you build system-wide clarity and coherence. As you become clearer about the patterns you want, you find ways to engage with others and your environment to set conditions to influence the emergence of those patterns. It's a process of looking deeply into the roots of a system to identify actions that can bring you to best fit.
Last week, a long-time friend and client shared her frustration with me. “My team is running round in circles. We think we make progress, then something happens, and we have to start again. Too many things are all changing at the same time. We are working harder than ever, but it seems like we aren’t making any progress. I don’t know how long we can keep it up.”
Collaborate to Create Community
This arts-based community development initiative in municipal government uses human systems dynamics as a foundation for planning and action. Creative CityMaking Minneapolis was launched as a multi-year collaboration from 2012 through 2016 between the City of Minneapolis program for Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, and Intermedia Arts. In this video, members of the extended team talk about how it worked and why. The success of the demonstration year inspired an investment of over $1 million from private, municipal, and federal sources including the Kresge Foundation, the City of Minneapolis, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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