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Collaborate to Create Community
Mary's blog post about generative engagement is a great starting place for this reflection about conflict at all levels of an organization or community. This week's survey invited responses to three items: 1. Describe an intractable conflict - local, national, or global. 2. What keeps the conflict going? 3. What can you do/do you do to help those around you deal with the inevitable conflicts that arise when people live, work, or play together?
Health CareBuild Adaptive Capacity
What were you doing in 1977? I was a new assistant professor of anatomy at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. It was the only medical school in a poor and medically underserved State with 23 indigenous Native American tribes and tens of thousands of people living at or below the poverty level along its border with Mexico. The state legislature asked the medical school to address these issues.
GovernmentManage Strategic Change
In using human systems dynamics to support clients, we work with organizations for whom traditional hierarchies and bureaucratic structures have become barriers to productivity, collaboration, and innovation. In large, loosely connected, more bureaucratic organizations, the structure is blamed for the often-heard complaints about silos; slow response times; lack of coherent, standard practice; and other organizational challenges.
Manage Strategic Change
August 4, 2016
Change is changing. Change initiatives with pre-determined goals and predictable processes seldom get off the ground or crash soon after takeoff. We will offer an alternative that creates a path for change as you and your organization walk it. The disciplines of Adaptive Action and Pattern Logic help leverage the assets of the system and generate change that is flexible and sustainable. Build your adaptive capacity and create a unique and emerging path toward the change you envision.
It’s February and love is in the air! At least the word’s out there, in myriad forms, interpretations, implications, and intimations.
How do you know when you do a good job? Customers are satisfied. You complete on time. The cost is within budget. You meet stated requirements or specifications. You feel proud and satisfied. You get more work of the same kind or better from the same clients or their referrals.
GovernmentCollaborate to Create Community
Conflict is described in many ways. I offer here my own description of conflict in three parts: 1) Conflict is where past and future meet, 2) Conflict is learning, 3) Conflict is a complex dynamic. With each part, I offer a link to the elements of HSD thought that best connect with my description, and I provide simple questions to help readers apply the theory in practical ways.