Principle: Balcony and Dancefloor — Lizard Brain
he sketched out his now-famous ballroom metaphor of the dance floor and the balcony. The idea is that when you’re down on the dance floor, your focus tends to be on your partner and on not colliding with other dancers spinning around you, which can often leave you with the impression that the ballroom is a crowded, chaotic environment to which you
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Observing is a highly subjective activity. But in exercising adaptive leadership, the goal is to make observing as objective as possible. Getting off the dance floor and onto the balcony is a powerful way to do this. It enables you to gain some distance, to watch yourself as well as others while you are in the action, and to see patterns in what is
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The Dance
1. Get the beat.
2. Listen to the wisdom of the system.
3. Expose your mental models to the open air.
4. Stay humble. Stay a learner.
5. Honor and protect information.
6. Locate responsibility in the system.
7. Make feedback policies for feedback systems.
8. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable.
9. Go for the good of ... See more
1. Get the beat.
2. Listen to the wisdom of the system.
3. Expose your mental models to the open air.
4. Stay humble. Stay a learner.
5. Honor and protect information.
6. Locate responsibility in the system.
7. Make feedback policies for feedback systems.
8. Pay attention to what is important, not just what is quantifiable.
9. Go for the good of ... See more
Donella Meadows • Dancing With Systems
