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Business & IndustryPlan in Uncertainty
We all know how to plan, right? You figure out what you want to do. You map out the steps to get it done. You take those steps. You check to be sure you are finished. Easy!
Except in the complexity of real life, you can’t always just march through those steps. Sometimes in the midst of planning you find barriers you never expected. Or you find that you are out of sync with those around you. Or you find that you have a bright and shiny new multi-phased strategic plan that never got implemented. Or you find that the plan you devise has too many gaps or questions left unanswered. It’s frustrating and defeating, and it might make you wonder why you should try to plan at all!
GovernmentBuild Adaptive Capacity
Most of my answers begin with, “It depends.” That means that the next question is usually, “On what?” Then the conversation gets really interesting. When we are working on a particular sticky issue, it depends on the specifics of that situation. Insights and actions rely on the patterns we are aware of in the “here and now.” Every situation is unique. Every set of interdependencies is different, but we have developed some general rules that help us see which relationships are most important and what we should pay attention to.
Business & IndustryCollaborate to Create Community
Last autumn I went for a Sunday walk in Belgium with my friend and colleague Anne Lemaire. Here’s a photo of the map we used:
Business & IndustryLead in Complexity
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Manage Strategic Change
Griff Griffiths hosts this keynote session for ODN Europe 2018, and Dr. Glenda Eoyang addresses the anxiety of working in today's challenging terrain by exploring some of the underpinning ideas of Human Systems Dynamics.
GovernmentLead in Complexity
Everyone can be a leader. From the boardroom to the backyard, leadership is in your reach. Regardless of whether or not you have a formal leadership role, you can take action and set conditions for those around you to be successful. Here is how: 1) recognize the leadership opportunities available to you each day, 2) use your ability to influence and take action, and 3) find the tools and tips needed to lead even when the situation is complex.
May 3, 2018
Culture is complex, but culture change calls for simple action. You respond to questions, challenges, innovations, and ideas in ways that shape new patterns of thought and action. How can you learn this dance that lets you shift in the moment? How can you use cycles of inquiry and action to keep moving forward?
HSD opens opportunities for culture change. Learn Adaptive Action to shape the cultural patterns you want.
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