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Plan in Uncertainty
These last 10 days, I have been struggling with a decision: Should I accept a job offer in Vietnam to teach at a university in Saigon, with good benefits, decent pay, and some relocation support? Or should I remain on the entrepreneurial path and trust to create the work that is emerging for me (partially based on my PhD research-in-progress) on embodiment and change processes, even though the pathway from "here" to revenue appears tentative at this moment?
Wendy Gudalewicz is Superintendent of the Cupertino Union School District in Cupertino, CA, and uses Adaptive Action in her day-to-day work, as well as in her strategic action to shape patterns across her system. She was a contributing storyteller for Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization, and shares another story here about how she looks for and shapes patterns as a school district leader. For more about her district, check out the Cupertino Union School District website.
October 1, 2020
Complex change cannot be predicted or controlled. It comes in bursts amid long periods of stillness and silence. It happens for individuals, groups, or whole communities in different ways and at different times. It brings unintended consequences and wonderful surprises.
In this session, we will explore the hows and whys of complex change and share some fundamental tools to see, understand, and influence it.
Build Adaptive Capacity
Usually I groan when yet another sports analogy is used to explain an insight about complex human systems. Don’t get me wrong. I love sports and spent the better part of my teenage years in a gym playing basketball. My dad was a football coach, and I love the game.
Lead in Complexity
Linear cause and effect are great when they work. Root causes and logical sequences explain change in mechanical systems. They can even work in some simple, highly constrained human systems. The problem is that they do not help you understand
change in highly complex human systems dynamics.
The Power of Questions, also known as Inquiry IS the Answer, is a process of deep inquiry for individuals and groups to find next wise actions to tame wicked issues. The protocol for the process is simple, but each experience of it is unique and insightful. The method includes three steps.
GovernmentManage Strategic Change
Understanding the dynamics underlying political patterns in the USA is essential, if we want to take action in the present to influence the emerging future. In this week's HSD blog, Glenda Eoyang will use her CDE model to explore the deeper dynamics driving the emergence of these patterns.