Sign up at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboyA reminder of last week’s headline, still time to download the new #systemscovening book from Bev and Etienne Wenger-Trayner and join us at a webinar:Register for the launch webinar on 2 September: https://bit.ly/SCBookLaunchDownload the book and join the community: https://bit.ly/SystemsConvening(And for more on my thinking on systems change and systems leadership, see here) Top phive … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #10
The world is grey – and it’s a lot more interesting that way.
What does the shift to the collective journey mean to you? I was raised on Star Wars. stay on target Almost literally; we went on exchange to the USA when I was five, and I saw the movie 14 times that year. I’m sure I could have recited the entire script for you well into … Continue reading The world is grey – and it’s a lot more interesting that way.
Long live commissioning! But what shall we call it?
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?
The Peter Block Community Exercise — connection, gifts, community: better than ‘a warmup’
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’
getRevue newsletter – Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #9
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
Something new has been named: #systemsconvening
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’?
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’?
Exiting from stress
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
My weekly collection of key links -“Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #8”
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”
What is work? What’s your definition?
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?
