What is the 'Authority Trap'? One of the biggest leadership mistakes made when navigating complexity is falling into what I call the 'Authority Trap'. This is where we diagnose an adaptive (complex) challenge as technical and then attempt to lead through the challenge...
Building your Complexity Landscape: In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, traditional approaches to leadership often fall short when facing complexity. How might you unlock new perspectives and solutions that conventional methods may miss? We have launched a...
Our facilitated LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® service offering is nearly here! Mention LEGO® to anyone and it evokes childhood memories of free-play and imagination. Now consider the possibility of using the LEGO® Serious Play® method to solve business challenges, build...
The terms ‘psychological safety’ and ‘radical candour’ don’t appear to sit comfortably with each other in one sentence. There is a sense that psychologically safe teams are nice and cozy place to work and a long way from a term like ‘radical candour’ (a term coined by...
This is the 5th of 6 blog posts as part of the series 'Dancing with Complexity'. This blog was authored by Gerry, capturing the results of a survey on the experience of teams in the virtual world this year. Thank you to all those who contributed to this article. In...
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 outcomes. As I...
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...
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...
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...
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