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Uncertainty has become a way of life today, on all fronts. Even in the best of situations in your day-to-day life, you stand on the edge of uncertainty. Economic, political, social, and technological forces shape your life in ways you can’t predict or know.
June 18, 2015
Glenda provides an update of the HSD Institute. Renae Rebechini talks about HSD and collaboration. Mary Nations uses HSD to share her reflections on diversity. Jennifer Jones-Patulli and Shawna Vivant discuss HSD and conflict. (This event was recorded as a Quarterly Associate's Meeting.)
Build Adaptive Capacity
I have always been a bit skeptical about paths that promise personal transformation. I’m not sure why. Maybe I followed the promise one too many times—or one too few—and was disappointed. Maybe it is because my family pattern grew out of Protestant Puritanism, where my individual, subjective state wasn’t considered all that interesting.
Lead in Complexity
June 4, 2015
Glenda Eoyang explores leadership in this century to prepare for the next: What? is leadership in the 22nd century? So what? can a leader do? Now what? can you do to bring the future into today?
Build Adaptive Capacity
Mindfulness is a topic today that many people are talking about. I am not an expert in mindfulness. In fact, I am only recently beginning to build a practice of mindfulness.
Lead in Complexity
Engineers know a lot about pressure: Boyle’s Law, pounds per square inch, and cold fronts that bring thunderstorms in the summer. You know about pressure, too: Deadlines, politics, demands, more with less, and forward farther and faster.
Build Adaptive Capacity
Mary Nations, shares a church service she recently helped to design and deliver as they explored the impact of difference and bias. It’s a powerful study of courage in the face of fear and how narratives—spoken, sung, and read—can share the lessons we must learn from the history that’s described in her homily.