Moving Forward With an Imperfect Plan
The conventional lens puts great emphasis on planning and control. For many good reasons, we plan extensively. Yet there is […]
collective intelligence
The Key to Transformation
Managers make conventional assumptions. One of those assumptions is that people will change if they are given a rational explanation […]
Positive Culture and the Common Good
One of the key capacities of a positive leader is the ability to create a positive culture. It begins with […]
Seeing the Whole
I appreciate this story because the surgeon represents so many individual contributors. They can only see the parts. They have not imagined the importance of the whole. So they cannot attend to the whole and the whole tends to disintegrate over time.
The Limitation of Experts
Cultural change cannot be led by experts with the right answers. Culture change is led by facilitators who stimulate collective learning and the co-creation of the emerging future.
Where Positive Organizing Begins
Differentiated people become integrated people. The collective intelligence climbs. Efforts become self-organizing and hierarchical direction is much less necessary. In this high state of collaboration, the group flourishes and exceeds expectations.
The Work of Positive Leadership
For an organization to flourish, the cultural soil must be carefully prepared. It must then be constantly examined and improved. It is not the word of technical management. It is the work of positive leadership.
Collective Intelligence
Collective intelligence increases and learning accelerates. The whole then has power to do things the parts cannot do.