When everything is in flux and change is the only constant, it’s less about trying to control everything and more about adapting through listening, asking sharp questions, spotting patterns in the noise, making decisions with…
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The Facilitator Leader
It will be much easier for leadership to adapt new work challenges if they evolve their thinking about organizations from viewing them as ‘machines’ or ‘living entities’ to seeing them as ‘social systems’. The people…
Finding Your Way: How Organizations Work Like Machines, Living Things, and Social Circles
It’s tempting to think of organizations as machines–with people put in place and levers pulled to tweak outcomes. Similarly, envisioning organizations as living organisms is fascinating. Each member plays a specific role, with a central…
The Hidden Cost of Inefficiency
You and I might not notice, but the up-and-coming leaders do. Their view of organizational life and how people interact breaks from the past. The issue is glaring: traditional organizations are riddled with silos, burdened…
The Resources Around You
The beauty of the game The Settlers of Catan is that it forces you to work with the resources around you. You may enter the game with a general strategy, but the path to winning…
Trying to Be Perfect
The idea ‘how you do one thing is how you do everything’ needs a second look. Do we really act the same at home as we do at work? Can we truly say that our…