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COMPLEXITY
What the Mountain Taught Me About Complexity Fitness
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
An Agile Organization is a Wise One
Written by Jennifer Garvey Berger, Ciela Hartanov, Nick Petrie Your organization is not prepared. You may have the right structure, business model and revenue streams for today, but...
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COMPLEXITY
Relying on the obvious
A few years ago I was standing at the front of a line for immigration at Paris’s De Gaulle airport when one of the immigration officials called out “Psssst – All Black!” and waved...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
Widening the reach of the theories of our lives
Changing on the Job will come out in its fourth language in December, the beginning of a movement and the outcome of a labor of love from the translator Hanne Lindblad. Here is a look at...
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COMPLEXITY
Best Thursday Ever
So here’s the thing. If it is at all possible, you should come to the Leading in Complex Times event we’re having in London on 20 September. Take the day off. Hop on a Eurostar....
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COMPLEXITY
Uncertainty sucks
Remember my glitteringly clear biopsy? The “no malignant or suspicious cells” response I found so totally heartening? It turns out that the complete lack of any kind of cells other...
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COMPLEXITY
Pleating of time and possibility
On the other side of the planet, in another time and another season but at this instant, Doug Silsbee is being farewelled by friends and family in what must be a spectacular—moving,...
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ADULT DEVELOPMENT
All the way down
Writing more than thirty years ago physicist Stephen Hawking began his classic book “A Brief History of Time” with the story about a famous scientist giving a public lecture on...
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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...
