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How do you think about change if not in linear strategies? You tend to the relationships.
All living and social systems are vitalized through their relational ecologies. When the relationships shift, the whole structure of the surrounding relationships also shifts.
All living and social systems are vitalized through their relational ecologies. When the relationships shift, the whole structure of the surrounding relationships also shifts.
Alexander Beiner • The Bigger Picture
Charles Handy points out that the key role of leaders is to keep the “wheel” moving.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
My colleague and co-author of Presence, Otto Scharmer, explains a shift in orientation and intention that arises from three “thresholds,” or openings through which we must pass in leading profound change: opening the head, opening the heart, and opening the will.10 The first involves opening ourselves to see and hear what is in front of us but we h
... See morePeter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
The key to seeing reality systemically is seeing circles of influence rather than straight lines. This is the first step to breaking out of the reactive mindset that comes inevitably from “linear” thinking.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
in complex systems, it is rarely appropriate to go it alone. Forming partnerships within the faction one is working in, creating allies across the boundaries between factions, and finding confidants who are outside the field of action altogether is critical to the art of adaptive leadership.
Sharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
these diverse approaches have one guiding idea in common: that behavior of all systems follows certain common principles, the nature of which are being discovered and articulated.