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Build Adaptive Capacity
Usually I groan when yet another sports analogy is used to explain an insight about complex human systems. Don’t get me wrong. I love sports and spent the better part of my teenage years in a gym playing basketball. My dad was a football coach, and I love the game.
Simple Rules are agreements that inform behavior, so a diverse group can function as one. They set conditions that shape the emergent patterns as a group self-organizes. The rules may emerge from covert or overt agreements among the players, and they inform decisions and actions to create coherence across the whole.
Manage Strategic Change
The problem is that we expect certainty and get surprise. Accountability, responsibility, performance, reliability, trust, quality—all these basic concepts of business require the insight to predict and the power to control.
Build Adaptive Capacity
There is a great deal of noise in the popular culture today about your “bucket list.” It seems everyone should have a magical list of things they want to do, people they want to see, and places they want to go before they are too old or too infirm to follow those dreams. I would like to propose a new tool.
Build Adaptive Capacity
I attended my grandson’s wedding last weekend. I would hurry to say that I’m too young to have a grandson getting married (which is true), but more on that later. In the glorious autumn sunshine of Los Angeles, we came together to celebrate the joining of a pair of lives, and all pairs and all lives.
Collaborate to Create Community
According to Dictionary.com, “collaborate” means to work together or cooperate to accomplish a task. But what does it really take for a group of unique individuals to come together to create a true collaboration? The definition tells us what to do, but the question people often ask is how to do that.
Health CareManage Strategic Change
Fifty-four leaders from across the British Columbia healthcare system have focused on building their adaptive capacity this summer. They are the latest cohort in a Transforming LINX program sponsored by BC Health Leadership Development Collaborative and designed, developed by Human Systems Dynamics Institute
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