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Manage Strategic Change
Our Sticky Issue #1 comes from a change leader in a large urban county. To save space and encourage collaboration, the county literally "took down the walls." Now, 150 social services staff work in a large, open space.
Learn from the past. Take action in the present. Create the future. is a tagline we sometimes use in our documents and materials. As I think about sharing our new book, Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization, it seems critical that we continue to use this quick, accurate description of what we offer in our relationships--both long term and newly developing; both professional and personal.
Lead in Complexity
Wouldn’t it be great if you could “fix” your human system the way you fix your mechanical world? You could take the team in for a tune-up, replace people like parts and improve performance immediately. You could depend on experts and high-quality materials to ensure predictable outcomes.
Dan Pink, the best-selling author of "Drive" and "A Whole New Mind" and a new book called "To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others", was recently asked what he believes is the most important skill in today's rapidly changing environment.
Collaborate to Create Community
HSD Associate, Louie Gardiner, explains how she uses the Landscape Diagram to build collaborative relationships in a diverse group.
Lead in Complexity
Dynamical Leadership builds on metaphors from complexity science and chaos theory to change the way you think about the leadership landscape in times of unbelievable change. Dynamical change is
unpredictable, entangled on many dimensions, and is full of energy, power, motion, motivational force, and vigor. It is also characterized by continuous change, activity, or progress. This kind of change requires a different kind of leader who knows
how to see and influence patterns, use differences for maximum capacity building, and engage people in a new way.
Manage Strategic Change
This HSD Primer provides change leaders with a clear understanding of how to use Adaptive Action and Pattern Logic to bring about system-wide change in today's rapidly shifting landscape. Change leaders need a solid foundation from which to guide their organizations toward greater adaptability.
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