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Seeing Systems
Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life - by Barry Oshry Our work is helping leaders at all levels in organizations see the "big picture." Many of the people...
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World - by Ronald Heifetz This book brings together all of Heifetz's work to date on...
Get There Early
"Get There Early: Sensing the Future to Compete in the Present" by Bob Johansen. Nobody can predict the future, but you still have to make sense of it to be...
Returning To Our Core Competencies
We are excited to be returning to our core competencies - helping leaders and their organizations prepare for change and uncertainty (and we're talking about much more than risk mitigation)...
Trying To Make VUCA Linear
I catch myself doing it - wanting to deal with VUCA and VUCA prime in a linear fashion. Wanting to be clear about which dynamic it is, so I know...
From fight/flight/freeze to “sinking open”
Our Aikido training has us looking at how to let go, breathe and "sink open" as soon as we notice that our fight/flight/freeze response has been triggered. There are two...
Getting clear about what we are leading
In the midst of uncertainty and our VUCA world, there are some traditional ways of leaders that we could do well to re-evaluate. One of the places to start is...
5 Principles for Engaging VUCA
As food for thought, here are 5 principles that will enhance your leadership capacity for engaging VUCA and leading in the midst of uncertainty. We'll explore them in more detail...
5 Principles for Navigating Change
As food for thought, here are 5 principles that will enhance your leadership capacity for navigating change in the midst of uncertainty. We'll explore them in more detail going forward....
Welcome to our new website!
Hello! We are very excited to share our updated website. It looks at what we believe the future will demand of us - as individuals, as organizations, as communities -...
What does accountability look like in a VUCA world?
How is accountability different in an uncertain (versus a certain) world? In response to VUCA, we can no longer follow the plan as initially set, since it needs to be...
Talking about “managing” change
We think the phrases "managing change" or "change management" are misleading - and even potentially problematic. While we can manage a technical fix, we really can't manage an adaptive change....
An overview of our Change Model
Change begins with a Current State - how things are right now - and looks forward to, and plans for, a Future State - how we want things to be...
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