'Many are stubborn with regard to the once-chosen path, few with regard to the goal' -Nietzsche
What do you call an approach that moves #publicservices from 'spending money on services to meet needs' to 'intervening and learning in the complex systems that actually shape our lives'? latest piece in the Municipal Journal The former sees 'services' as the whole universe, brought into being by our public service cash. The latter sees … Continue reading Long live commissioning! But what shall we call it?
How do you get people to connect to each other quickly? There are lots of ‘icebreakers’ and warmups, but something I come back to time and time again is this that is stolen — with encouragement — from Peter Block. The instructions are: Form groups of three. Sit facing in together, with your knees a maximum of nine inches apart. … Continue reading The Peter Block Community Exercise — connection, gifts, community: better than ‘a warmup’
Sign up at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboy The big thing I shared this week was the new #systemscovening book from Bev and Etienne Wenger-Trayner. I’m proud to have been involved in a sort of sounding board for the development of the book.Register for the launch webinar on 2 September: https://bit.ly/SCBookLaunchDownload the book and join the community: https://bit.ly/SystemsConveningIt is fascinating that … Continue reading getRevue newsletter – Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #9
Do you know systems conveners? Are you one? The new book from Bev and Etienne Wenger-Trayner starts: “You may not have heard about them; what they do is rarely in their job description. You may not even be aware of what they do; they tend to act as enablers rather than taking credit or seeking … Continue reading Something new has been named: #systemsconvening
Is your team or organisation a ‘robust system’? Do you have the right balance of dynamics to engage with the world with love and power, to be fully yourselves and fully the whole? A robust system is able to meet something new, different, surprising, odd — something ‘a bit off’ — and study, welcome, value and utilise it. The alternative, … Continue reading Is your team or organisation a ‘robust system’?
It’s often *after* the stress that the problems kick in. Phoenicean Juniper (Juniperus phoenicea) at El Sabinar, El Hierro, Canary Islands (Spain). Eckhard Pecher CC BY 2.5 licence https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:El_Hierro_Sabinar.JPG#/media/File:El_Hierro_Sabinar.JPG How do we exit from stress gracefully? If you’ve ever been to a busy restaurant at 11pm on a Saturday and marvelled at the fluid teamwork … Continue reading Exiting from stress
Sign up to read properly by email: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboy I got my twitter feed working properly this month, so this roundup has even more too much than normal of all the good things I shared this week!Connect to me in all the ways at www.bentaylor.com Top phive of the week What is work? What’s your definition?It’s a … Continue reading My weekly collection of key links -“Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #8”
It’s a deeply cybernetic concept – and it’s incredibly useful to realise this. Gangs of men on relief work during the depression, 1930s, by Sam Hood Work is: >> ‘effort, to a purpose, using judgement and discretion, within boundaries, over time’. << (This is based on two definitions by Elliott Jacques, given with citations below). … Continue reading What is work? What’s your definition?
What does this remind you of? (It’s not kinky or weird — I promise) I love these images from wikihow for it- brilliant and hilarious This is a neat little exercise to get people thinking — in pre- or hopefully post-pandemic times… All you need to do is to get people into groups of at least six to eight (more … Continue reading The Human Knot.
'Clarity is kindness' says Brene Brown. So here's an easy way to generate #clarity - what's your favourite way to do it? And I've seen lack of clarity create organisational problems more often than perhaps anything else. Don't get me wrong - this isn't imposing clarity on complexity, attempts to define and control, limits, fake certainty. This … Continue reading CPORT task definition
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