Would you like a nosey around my tool shed? If you've read some of my posts, you might be interested in how we share and teach this stuff - organisational #systemsthinking, dealing with #complexity. The answer is the RedQuadrant tool shed. There are three free webinars on Thursday 10 June. Registration required on these links: … Continue reading What would you most like to hear from me about my approaches on June 10?
How do you help good work thrive in the world and increase impact?
For years, I've been struggling with three tough challenges: How to: > run a network #consultancy: better consultancy at better value, focus on clients and consultants as well as business > teach and share the good stuff (systems/complexity/cybernetics, public service transformation), steer away from dodgy stuff, without professional sclerosis or certificate milling > support active … Continue reading How do you help good work thrive in the world and increase impact?
The Double Diamond as an example of some challenges of attribution in the history of ideas
[Apologies for the multiple preambles here! This note is added to say that deeper and clearer links - at least to the use of diamonds, and divergent and convergent thinking - have been provided by others and are in the replies to this piece] I just did a LinkedIn post picking up on this story, … Continue reading The Double Diamond as an example of some challenges of attribution in the history of ideas
Being compassionate to ourselves turns out to be a powerful lever for change
Kegan and Laskow Laheyโs Immunity to Change is a beautiful simple practice which goes really deep. Take a piece of paper with five spaces: 1) commitment to change A thing you really want to doโโโlose ten kilos, transform your sales. A netural, factual description of a change that really implicates you, that you feel in … Continue reading Being compassionate to ourselves turns out to be a powerful lever for change
What do you do when youโre stuck in the middle? Howโs that working out for you?
We all find ourselves trying to sort it out. Between: - the Bosses and the Doers - two teams weโre supposed to help to merge together - the Customer and the Organisation. X wants something from Y, but theyโre asking YOU. And guess what? Y wants something from X, but who do they come to? … Continue reading What do you do when youโre stuck in the middle? Howโs that working out for you?
Consider the oboe
Whatโs your favourite example to illustrate radically different 'worlds'? Consider the #oboe. Itโs a weird instrument; one of the most ancient. To play it requires immense skill, and the patience to spend hours crafting the reeds necessary to make any sound at all. Early pictorial examples of a double-reed instrument resembling the oboe have been … Continue reading Consider the oboe
The universe is greebling.
New innovations add more and more layers of details. Those layers of details create new spaces, new possibilities, new ideas. It happens in ecologies, with evolution. In economies, with innovation. And in thoughtspace โ every brilliant new meme, every time a critic gets *just* the right phrase to explain the dynamics of a new movie … Continue reading The universe is greebling.
Quality Improvement – considered dangerous?
#QualityImprovementย can be dangerous. redquadrant-qi-considered-dangerousDownload Very popular in the NHS, and beyond. Very good, in context. Our clients are doing our systems-flavoured #LeadingTransformation programme, and asked me how it fits with #QI. This isnโt new, and I constantly say: โbut *really good* QI people look outside the box at this stuffโ. But QI should be considered dangerous. It's a … Continue reading Quality Improvement – considered dangerous?
I’m hiring! Be at the heart of RedQuadrant
RedQuadrant is looking for a 'hub' person, to lead our bid support and admin coordination, working directly to Managing Partner, Benjamin Taylor. It's an initial one-year contract, ยฃ28-32k with room to grow, remote for the foreseeable future, really at the heart of growing a business - ideally it would be someone with (1) bid management … Continue reading I’m hiring! Be at the heart of RedQuadrant
What idea changed the way you see the world?
Threshold concepts, or gateway ideas, are ideas that, once you get them, change your way of thinking permanently. Thereโs no going back. And youโre stuck with it. Realising that โyouโre not the child your parent had in mindโ (as Peter Block says) is a big one. Deep systems insights like power+systems dynamics or the Viable … Continue reading What idea changed the way you see the world?
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