Jennifer Baez
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Jennifer Baez
The ability to recognize and design for emergence is a cornerstone element of systems thinking
August Bradley • Systems Thinking Intro – Notion Productivity Series
Perhaps the most striking thing I learned is that the answer to whether today’s marriages are better or worse is “both”: The average marriage today is weaker than the average marriage of yore, in terms of both satisfaction and divorce rate, but the best marriages today are much stronger, in terms of both satisfaction and personal well-being, than
... See moreEli J. Finkel • Opinion | The All-or-Nothing Marriage (Published 2014)
In the face of uncertainty, our first instinct is often to reject novelty, looking for reasons why unfamiliar concepts might fail. When managers vet novel ideas, they're in an evaluative mindset. To protect themselves against the risks of a bad bet, they compare the new notion on the table to templates of ideas that have succeeded in the past.
... See moreAdam Grant • Originals – Adam Grant
The term “psychological safety” has been around since at least 1999, when Dr. Amy Edmondson of Harvard University published this influential paper on the subject . In her study, Dr. Edmondson proposed that regardless of its makeup, a team’s success will largely boil down to its members “tacit beliefs about interpersonal interaction,” and whether
... See moreForbes • How Psychological Safety Actually Works
Social scientists have long known that we tend to be overconfident when we evaluate ourselves. Here are some highlights of their findings: High school seniors: 70 percent report that they have "above average” leadership skills, compared with 2 percent "below average"; in the ability to get along with others, 25 percent rate themselves in the top 1
... See moreAdam Grant • Originals – Adam Grant
Hats protocol is a way to delegate individual roles to individual people. So many of the impact networks I've been involved with have been so good at bringing large numbers of people together to address those complex issues but then when it comes down to the level of actually consistently executing to get things done, they often struggle unless... See more
BanklessDAO • Impact Networks with David Ehrlichman | Green Pill #59
The Gaia Theory sees planets, at least the Earth, as more than just balls of rocks and mud. They don’t think that Earth has life on it. They theorize that Earth is life itself — it’s living. The Gaia theory states that living things and all their non-living and inorganic surroundings evolve together as a single complex living organism. This
... See moreNikita Harindranath • The Gaia Theory
“The first step toward healing in mind and body is knowing what you’re dealing with — identifying the unresolved trauma.”