WaysFinding - Enabling coherent explore spaces

Boundaries, Complexity and adaptive leadership, Flow, Innovation, Leadership, Methods and practices, Resilience

I have written before about the need to embrace messy coherence or in more technical terms, coherent heterogeneity, a term I first encountered in the work of Dave Snowden. While most intuitively understand this need, how to achieve it practically remains elusive. We are emerging from a time where alignment and efficiency were pursued like […]

Rhythm, ritual and boundaries

Boundaries, Change, Resilience

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” ― Tuli Kupferberg A few weeks ago, I wrote about what I experienced as the “strange in-between”, knowing that everything has changed, but still feeling as if nothing has changed. So much has changed since then. As we enter our third week of lockdown here in South […]

Reconceptualising organisations: from complicated machines to flowing streams.

agility, Boundaries, Complexity and adaptive leadership, Flow

Too often we still view organisations through a mechanistic lens and this impacts on the flows we pay attention to. If we see them instead as living systems, organisms or ecosystems, it soon becomes clear that flow is central to every aspect of the organisation.

Ten things to keep in mind when facilitating an emergent process

Boundaries, Complexity and adaptive leadership, Learning Out Loud, Methods and practices

"Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path And turning, you look back At a way you will never tread again Traveller, there is no road […]

The soft stuff has become the hard stuff

Boundaries, Engagement, Healthy organizations, Leadership, Meaning and purpose

The Gallup State of the Global Workplace report was released recently, containing employee engagement results per country. The results are generally pretty dismal, an indictment on the prevailing cultures in our organisations. For sub-Saharan Africa, the report states: In most sub-Saharan African countries, formal employment for an employer is still relatively rare; many residents work at subsistence […]

Don't allow others (or yourself) to should on you!

Boundaries, General musings, Meaning and purpose

I've been reflecting on how often we allow other people's (and society in general's) 'shoulds' to influence our choices and even our identity. Now I have to say up-front, some 'shoulds' are legitimate, for example, everyone should respect life and not go around murdering other people, and it's probably best not to cheat on your […]

The tyranny of the moment

Boundaries, Complexity and adaptive leadership, Healthy organizations, Meaning and purpose, Narrative

Warning! This post doesn't contain 7 steps or 12 ideas, nor is it the ideal 600-800 word length ... "The greatest tragedy in using speed as the answer to complexity and the complexities of work-life, is that very soon we cannot recognize anything that is not traveling at the same velocity as we are. We […]

Boundaries: 9 practices to help you find your NO!

Boundaries, Leadership, Strengths

In my work as a coach and consultant, an issue that I frequently encounter is an inability to set and maintain healthy boundaries. One manifestation of this is over-burdened people living out-of-control lives due to an inability to say no. It's not really surprising, seeing as most of us were raised in a culture […]

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