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Business & IndustryLead in Complexity
In a recent post on the Harvard Business Review blog, Why Haven't Managers Embraced Complexity, Richard Straub looks at what managers face as they recognize that management practices from past decades don't really fit today's challenges. Even the term "management" may be undergoing a shift - notice that the post is not about "managing" complexity.
May 3, 2018
Culture is complex, but culture change calls for simple action. You respond to questions, challenges, innovations, and ideas in ways that shape new patterns of thought and action. How can you learn this dance that lets you shift in the moment? How can you use cycles of inquiry and action to keep moving forward?
HSD opens opportunities for culture change. Learn Adaptive Action to shape the cultural patterns you want.
Thanks to all who responded to our first Adaptive Action inquiry. Fifteen people shared their views of WHAT leadership looks like. As you might expect from a diverse Twitter-connected crowd, the responses were interesting and varied. One person summed up the findings nicely, “Leadership in a CAS [complex adaptive system see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_adaptive_system and
wiki.hsdinstitute.org/complex_adaptive_system] context is framed very differently than the traditional top-down models of leadership.” In the midst of the diverse responses, two themes emerged.
HSD releases the power and possibility that lie at the heart of your human systems. When you work and play, in your public and private lives, individually or with a group, you interact with others to make meaning and take action. You couldn’t live without these complex interactions, even if you wanted to, but why would you want to?
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How can I/we be adept in a volatile/uncertain/complex/ambiguous world?