I thoroughly enjoyed the Cynefin Seminar yesterday. As we say in Australia, “Do yourself a favor” – click through to that link and see if it is scheduled in your area soon. Dave Snowden will challenge you to think about things differently, and has a remarkable capacity to entertain while doing it. Not surprising, I [...]
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Crisis Leadership
June 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
My second session for Sunday was Peter Power’s Crisis Leadership Workshop. The session provided a very wide ranging summary of ideas and theories around the subject of Leadership. A subject that seems to have many varied definitions and meanings – as became obvious by some group activities later in the session. Power touched on a [...]
… the quest
May 31, 2011 By 2 Comments
Today I am reviewing one of the earliest, and certainly one of the more influential, articles describing the concept of resilience as it applies to organisations. Despite being almost 8 years old, this paper still offers some interesting insights into the concept of resilience for the contemporary reader. “The Quest for Resilience” by Gary Hamel [...]
… resilience is the new skill
January 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This is the #1 lesson that management guru Rosabeth Moss Kanter offers from her observations of 2010. There are two of her 5 lessons that I think are very relevant to our discussion of resilience. In her blog post “5 Lessons from 2010 worth repeating …“, Kanter’s first lesson is; “Surprises are the new normal. [...]
… empty raincoats
December 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
The sculpture is called Without Words, by Judith Shea. It was the inspiration for the title of Charles Handy‘s book “The Empty Raincoat”. I am a big fan of Handy’s thinking. In The Empty Raincoat he tells the story of ‘The Road to Davy’s Bar’. It is a story about an Irishman explaining the directions [...]
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