Category: Flow

WaysFinding – Enabling coherent explore spaces

Posted on April 11, 2021Author sonjablignautCategories Boundaries, Complexity and adaptive leadership, Flow, Innovation, Leadership, Methods and practices, ResilienceTags complexity, uncertainty, Wayfinding, Waysfinder3 Comments

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 … Continue reading WaysFinding – Enabling coherent explore spaces

Reconceptualising organisations: from complicated machines to flowing streams.

Posted on January 10, 2020February 16, 2022Author sonjablignautCategories agility, Boundaries, Complexity and adaptive leadership, Flow2 Comments

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.