Principle: Balcony and Dancefloor — Lizard Brain
What makes some organizations more adaptive than others? We’ve identified five key characteristics: 1. Elephants in the room are named. 2. Responsibility for the organization’s future is shared. 3. Independent judgment is expected. 4. Leadership capacity is developed. 5. Reflection and continuous learning are institutionalized.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
In doing adaptive work in organizations, you need to create or strengthen the holding environment to provide safety and structure for people to surface and discuss the particular values, perspectives, and creative ideas they have on the challenging situation they all face. As members of a group work through a conflict, things can get nasty.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Communication and interaction are nurtured across all formal and informal boundaries.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Wherever the old city is working successfully … it is a complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a constant succession of eyes. This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance—not to a simple-minded prec
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it.The controller’s job is to see that all future surprises are pleasant.
Robert C. Townsend • Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
A Community Creature is stable in the sense that they have a clear sense of what their strengths and weaknesses are, they know what they stand for and have developed an ability to identify and meet their own basic and complex needs. A Community Creature is fluid in that they are open to growth, not rigidly set in their ways, and dynamic enough to a
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Since the section had no leader, sky decks served as a natural part of the immune system to foster a healthy and balanced group dynamic. While everyone laughed, everyone also got the message. Sometimes direct confrontation with colleagues is the best path, and other times there are more subtle, comfortable mechanisms to hone a team’s chemistry.
Scott Belsky • The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
Why don’t you ever see tightrope walkers without long poles? It’s because they’re stabilizers, as critical to the reaching of destinations as the steps taken toward them. And yet, the poles work by feel, not thought: focusing on them risks falling. Temperament functions similarly, I think, in strategy. It’s not a compass—that’s intellect. But it is
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