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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
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COMPLEXITY
Development and Football Punditry
In this season of World Cup fever, I am consumed by my boyish passion for the game. So, whenever I can, I watch the matches live or in replay. I even listen to the post-match commentaries...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Tipping into the light
I am writing this in Ireland, in the fishing village of Dingle, where I have come to search for the past. My dad and I are here to find out who we were before our ancestors set sail from...
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COMPLEXITY
We might guess where it is going. It is almost certainly not ‘home’
English football fans at the FIFA World Cup in Russia are singing the “3 Lions” song with its refrain, “It’s coming home.” By ‘it’ they mean the World Cup. The ‘coming...
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COMPLEXITY
Fifteen handholds to leading in complexity
Living in any new place would have me reflecting on the past and on my path here, but living in London increases that reflection. Everywhere I look, there are reminders of the past—from...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Nine Panes, Nine Perspectives for Cultivating a Complexity-Adapted Self
Are you leading a team that, despite your best efforts, is plagued by infighting? Busting your butt to put together a leadership team that will attract the next round of funding your...
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BELIEFS
Fair cheating or feather dusters?
There is an Australian expression that describes the precariousness of politics and sporting life: a rooster one day, a feather duster the next. This is the fall now facing Steve...
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BELIEFS
Birds and the bees, and boundaries, and even rocks!
This is a story of birds and bees. Last week two French reports showed that the populations of farmland birds in France had plummeted by an average of a third in the past 15 years. A...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Introducing a New Resource for Cultivating Whole Leaders for Complexity
Have you ever found yourself knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that you needed to take a different approach to something, because what you were doing clearly wasn’t working? Yet,...
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COMPLEXITY
Self-organising democracies
What might Francesco say to Li Wei this week? What might an Italian man say to a Chinese man about elections and democracy and choosing a government? What might Li Wei say to...
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COMPLEXITY
Packing, cracking, and the shallow state
Every boundary redrawing process is perfectly designed to create the electoral districts it creates. When I look at a map of Pennsylvania’s congressional districts, particularly...
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COMPLEXITY
Thunder circles around thrones
"Look at this realm. Last Christmas the King spoke in Parliament about how people call each other papist and traitor, how the word of God is jangled in alehouses. But from him there...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Weirdly practical
I wonder how often what I say or teach comes across sounding to others like Sanskrit, or some other foreign tongue? I happened to be chanting in Sanskrit, a language I do not...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
The Gender Parity and Power Gap and the Socialized Messages that Shape It
This is a scan of a flip chart from a workshop I ran recently. What you see is the group’s answers to the questions: “What does it mean to be a successful...
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CHANGE
Safe to fail experimentation at home and away
I have been learning very much about experimentation these days from the very complex and volatile task of cleaning out my closet. As I have wondered, Will I really ever wear this polka...
