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Build Adaptive Capacity
February 4, 2016
Glenda Eoyang explores the cause of intractable challenges and identifies three conditions for finding your way through the intractability today and tomorrow: Adaptive Action, Pattern Logic, and Inquiry.
Manage Strategic Change
In the ATTRACTOR last week, Glenda talked about keys for noticing and changing your ever-and-always voice when you find yourself stuck in what seems to be an intractable problem. This month’s Change the World offers another path for getting unstuck from your ever-and-always voice. It’s the ability to stand in inquiry.
In a Landmark Forum course many years ago, I first heard a reference to ever-and-always-voice. I recognized it immediately as the single, greatest cause of sticky issues. Even if you haven’t heard the phrase, I’m sure you will recognize the phenomenon. It works like this.
Build Adaptive Capacity
Usually I groan when yet another sports analogy is used to explain an insight about complex human systems. Don’t get me wrong. I love sports and spent the better part of my teenage years in a gym playing basketball. My dad was a football coach, and I love the game.
Simple Rules are agreements that inform behavior, so a diverse group can function as one. They set conditions that shape the emergent patterns as a group self-organizes. The rules may emerge from covert or overt agreements among the players, and they inform decisions and actions to create coherence across the whole.
December 17, 2015
Glenda Eoyang talks about Adaptive Action inside the Institute. Stewart Mennin and Mary Nations update the Network on the outcomes of their HSD-based leadership program for health systems. Heather Oxman shares her HSD story: HSD social media future.
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