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Build Adaptive Capacity
Today’s guest blogger is HSD Associate, Janice Ryan. She uses HSD in her personal and professional life in multiple ways. In this blogpost, read about her use of HSD and Adaptive Action in her meditation practice.
Why does change seem so hard? Maybe the reason is simple: While the change pathway or plan can be fairly simple, the actual path of each change is unique.
Business & IndustryPlan in Uncertainty
We all know how to plan, right? You figure out what you want to do. You map out the steps to get it done. You take those steps. You check to be sure you are finished. Easy!
Except in the complexity of real life, you can’t always just march through those steps. Sometimes in the midst of planning you find barriers you never expected. Or you find that you are out of sync with those around you. Or you find that you have a bright and shiny new multi-phased strategic plan that never got implemented. Or you find that the plan you devise has too many gaps or questions left unanswered. It’s frustrating and defeating, and it might make you wonder why you should try to plan at all!
Recently I had an experience that reinforced for me the importance of understanding the differences between finite and infinite games when we consider our roles in establishing and sharing relationship with others.
Build Adaptive Capacity
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
—Pablo Picasso
Collaborate to Create Community
Mark Twain reminds us that often the best answer to “What do I do when . . .?” really is “It depends!
February 4, 2021
The problem? The world is changing quickly at home, in your work, and throughout your community. Because of the complexity of the world around you, the changes you face are generally unpredictable, often surprising, and sometimes turbulent. The challenge you face is functioning in such a world. How do you do what needs to be done?
Respond rather than react
Plan for a future you cannot predict or control
Find ways you and others can move forward in adaptive and creative ways.
HSD offers a vision for living, working, and playing in the midst of uncertainty:
People everywhere thrive because we
see patterns clearly,
seek to understand, and
act with courage to
turn turbulence and uncertainty
into possibility for all.