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Build Adaptive Capacity
What do people mean when they talk about resilience? In this blog post, Royce offers both a definition and some practical applications for building resilience in the uncertainty of the current COVID-19 crisis. Learn to leverage your connections to create a more resilient world.
Manage Strategic Change
September 4, 2014
Glenda Eoyang talks about using HSD to design events. What? are the conditions for self-organizing, and how does your practice influence them? So what? are the effects of those conditions on meetings and events? Now what? planning template will help you set conditions for your next meeting or event?
Lead in Complexity
The statistics are shocking. Even good employees are dissatisfied and disengaged. Organizations of all sizes and sectors recognize the problem. The real problem, though, is that they don’t know what to do about it. Surveys, rewards and recognition programs, gap analysis, and strategic plans uncover the deep discontent, but in most cases they do little to shift the pattern. What will work?
December 3, 2013
In this year-end session, Glenda talks about HSD in the present and future. Griff Griffiths talks about Cocomotion, the consulting group he and colleagues are forming to coach non-profit leaders. Juli Rasmussen shared her HSD learning journey. Kristen Crusoe and Netti Garner discuss their use of HSD and Adaptive Action within a school of nursing. (This event was recorded as an Annual Meeting.)
Plan in Uncertainty
One of my clients has discovered that great leaders have multiple personalities. They manage budgets and smooth feathers. They tell today’s stories and feed tomorrow’s visions. They plan and execute; reinforce and correct; encourage and challenge; create stability and manage change; hire and fire; and in their spare time, they do everything in between.
Collaborate to Create Community
For the past week, I've been visiting friends, colleagues, and potential partners in Delhi. This has proven to be an intense experience of one of the HSD simple rules "teach and learn in every interaction." I leave with a profound sense of respect for people who see opportunity emerging from challenge, consensus emerging from diversity, and actual change emerging from the potential of hope and passion.
It is six o’clock in the morning, and your teenage son is not home yet. Your doctor calls you in after a routine exam. There is a natural disaster near the home of friends or relatives on the other side of town, the nation, or the globe. It is your turn to make a presentation to the executive committee. New legislation or regulations for your industry are in the making. Even as I write these sentences, I am aware of tension in my shoulders and butterflies in my stomach. How do you feel as you read them?