by admin | Nov 27, 2020 | Agility, Coaching, Complexity, leadership
This is the 4th blog in the ‘Dancing with Complexity’ series. This one is about how we can experiment around the edges to make progress on the challenges we face. It can even be a little fun as we design experiments and bring curiosity as we explore the...
by admin | Nov 20, 2020 | Agility, Coaching, Complexity, leadership, Reflection
When conceiving this series of blogs, a number of themes came to mind, one of them being what we can learn from animals at this time. We happened to get a puppy in August, so this blog wrote itself, based on the first-hand joys and tribulations of having this new...
by admin | Oct 30, 2020 | Agility, Coaching, Complexity, leadership, Reflection
As Ireland enters its second week of its second lockdown, and weariness sets in, we want to offer a perspective on how we can ‘dance with the complexity’, a phrase coined by Donella Meadows. In this instance, rather than focusing on what we can’t do, we would like to...
by admin | Oct 23, 2020 | Agility, Coaching, Complexity, leadership, Reflection, Resilience, Well-being
With the explosion in noise around the concepts of resilience and well-being, one would be forgiven for thinking these were new ideas belonging to the 21st century. In fact, in both Roman and Greek mythology, Hygieia was the goddess of health. Spa treatments were the...
by admin | Oct 16, 2020 | Agility, Coaching, Complexity, leadership, Reflection
Eight years ago, I spent about ten days in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government learning about the difference between ‘adaptive’ (complex) and ‘technical’ challenges. Eight years on, Covid-19 is playing out as the most significant adaptive challenge in my...
by admin | Oct 2, 2020 | Agility, Coaching, leadership, Reflection
In recent months, all of us have experienced some level of disruption to our lives, the scale of which will have depended on so many factors: front-line worker or not, experience of family bereavement or illness, fear of loss, requirement to juggle childcare with...
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