Sublime

In designing your workshops, you’re co-creating the conditions for self-discovery in a supportive community using liberating practices. You’re offering a safe space for individuals like Melanie to practice becoming choosers and deciders, and to realize that they have freedom in how to relate to themselves, others, and the world.

Leadership for today’s world requires enlarging one’s capacity to see the whole board, as in a chess match—to see the complex, often volatile interdependence among the multiple systems that constitute the new commons.

understand the ‘spiderweb’ of the story

These are what we call adaptive challenges, gaps generated by bold aspirations amid challenging realities. For these the world needs to build new ways of being and responding beyond the current repertoires of available know-how. What is needed from a leadership perspective are new forms of improvisational expertise, a kind of process expertise that

societies, those who have moved up the hierarchy into senior positions of authority are naturally socialized and trained to be good at taking action and decisively solving problems. There is no incentive to wade knee-deep into the murky waters of diagnosis, especially if some of the deeper diagnostic possibilities will be unsettling to people who l

self-observation, realization, reorganization, and stabilization.

People have a limited velocity to unlearn and relearn. The pace of change cannot be forced; it can be nurtured. People adopt change in the shape of a normal, cumulative probability distribution (i.e., an S-curve), starting with the natural Innovators. Improving ways of working needs to be safe-to-learn and within risk appetite. Middle management ar

As a leader’s seniority increases, that leader should make fewer decisions.