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CHANGE
Bringing together the art and science of teamwork
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COMPLEXITY
China syndrome
Meet Principal Zhou who runs a public elementary school in China. He is proud and delighted at the start-of-the-art facilities he has created: multi-story extensions, a rubberized...
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COMPLEXITY
Tough Guys Don’t Come Seventh
I was thinking about jingoism while enjoying a sparkling performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony last night. It rather muddied the delight. Before the concert began I had been...
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COMPLEXITY
Moses parted the Red Sea; Trump might be drowning in a swamp
Once upon a time, in a city of sparkling towers by the sea, there lived a property developer prone to ambitious schemes, certainty about his own rightness, overweening arrogance and a...
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COMPLEXITY
Both Jane and Tarzan
This is a tale of one city, one movie, and two books. Between the two books we find a central polarity of governing and urban planning. Let’s call it the polarity of Jane and...
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COMPLEXITY
Why we write—and read—books
There are some times when it seems that writing a book is a futile endeavor. Like when people ask me for a one page summary because they really don’t have time for books. In fact, three...
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BELIEFS
Doing democracy rather than having it
One of the maxims taught to young journalists is that all news is local. It is also most powerful when it is personal. Liu Xiaobo died yesterday in captivity. The...
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CHANGE
In a deluge of data look for surprises, not confirmation
By Jennifer and Wendy (This was also published on the Re:work Google blog) Have you ever tried to find a clear pathway but ended up drowning in data that seem to make everything...
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COMPLEXITY
Dans mons regne, le deluge
“Après moi le deluge” is a commonly cited French expression attributed to French King Louis XV or his mistress Madame de Pompadour. It can mean, “after I am dead, I don’t care...
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CHANGE
Preserving a pole
I went to an unusual 30th birthday party earlier this month and it has made me think a lot about the distinctions we teach about between problems and polarities and how to think...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Women's Ways of Knowing
On February 26th, the Academy awarded the prestigious Best Actor prize to Casey Affleck, a man who has recently been publicly accused of sexual harassment. Mel Gibson, whose reputation in...
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WHOLE SELF
Living fully, if too briefly
Our friend and colleague Tim Pidsley died this weekend in his home in Christchurch. Last week Tim went on the grueling and beautiful BDO Wellington to Auckland cycle challenge. He seems...
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BELIEFS
Three hopeful ideas about change for weary travelers
I have a client I’ve been working with for several years now. As we began our work together, I was just finishing the last chapters of Changing on the Job as they were embracing the...
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CHANGE
Only Connect
In the tumult of the last few months, I have turned more and more often to old and orderly fiction to soothe myself (a pursuit in which I apparently have company). After meandering...
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CHANGE
Clinically fake
Is it time to get clinical about fake news? I started a blog in early December about fake news. Since then the meaning of the phrase has been so transformed that a different story...
