‘If you do not include everyone who needs to be included at the beginning, you will have to start again when they join in’. This is one of the truisms of intimate innovation – you cannot learn together through shared experience if you are not involved. And there is such a tendency in complex settings to think that success is…
Do you know the feeling….hard morning working, lunch with networking, feel a bit drowsy, not sure you want to re-join the conference – workshop – whatever….want to stay out to lunch, like the Spanish are reputed to do…..why can’t we work like they do in Toledo, or Barcelona…..? I’m half out the door at this point …..but there is a…
Part of what we can provide is critical friendship – working along side you, observing and acting from a 3rd position. This can help to make blind spots visible to re-imagine what could be done to create the opening up which can begin to prevent things feeling so stuck to give you a language to use to talk about what’s…
In most complex settings, most of us do not know what to do (one of the 3 moments of leadership, is acting as if you do know). Yet, in such complex settings, we often pretend that we do know what to do, or what needs to be done. We often think of ‘leaders’ as those people who ‘know what needs…
There is a powerful association between leadership and ‘vision’ – especially when thinking about leadership in difficult and uncertain times. What is this quality of ‘vision’? In the same way that one speaks approvingly of ’embodiment’ – conveying someone’s congruent, connected relation to their purpose and values – what can we say about ‘envisioning’? The idea of ‘reverie’ in psychotherapy…
In our experience it is not uncommon for us to meet – say in various combinations of 6 or 8 of us – every 2 weeks or so to try and make progress on some really important issue. The issue remains urgent – we all agree on this. But attendance is inconsistent, and we all have other, pressing concerns. We…
Get away from work from 5pm to the same time the next day – just a day away from work, but 24 hours of immersion. Depending on the situation, we will have a series of confidential phone calls with all invitees to get close to your concerns. This will inform the design of a tailored event and series of activities…
If you have 6-8 hours to invest in developing your innovation capacity, do get in touch – we have an event that will work for you. As the title suggests, we will help you: to discover something that you know about how to innovate that was obscured from you – something of the ‘unthought but known’ because the knowledge becomes…
We believe in walking and talking together – both are good for you. In the forum, we walk and talk with you – starting where you want to start. Here are two walk and talk journeys we have recently been on – on leading in the moment; and on how leaders think about their followers. How do lead ‘in the…
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