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November 5, 2020
Some people find meaning in the daily rush of information. They can focus and concentrate. They find the needles in haystacks and diamonds in the rough. While some people have a gift for meaning making and seeing the bigger picture. Either is an asset, but the latter is less understood in today’s complex system of big data, conflicting perspectives, and competing tensions.
In this session, learn tools and techniques as you navigate your way to meaning in a sea of data.
September 3, 2020
Every complex system sits on top of irresolvable tensions: speed and quality; identity and flexibility; tradition and innovation; centralized and distributed; and many more. We used to manage these tensions by tradeoffs and compromise, but that didn’t always work. As uncertainty and complexity grow, those tactics lose even more of their power. Instead, HSD helps you embrace underlying tensions to generate energy and opportunity.
In this session, learn to use Interdependent Pairs to transform your dilemmas into possibilities.
June 18, 2020 HSD was made for times like these! COVID-19, police brutality, natural disasters, and political unrest are all wicked, wicked problems. HSD practitioners around the world work with others to transform these problems into patterns of possibility for people, institutions, and communities.
In this month's Quarterly Virtual Mini-Conference, Associates will host a dialogue about how they use HSD and what they see as the future of the HSD Global Community of Praxis. Join us for a bit of time traveling and connection!
June 4, 2020
Individuals create political patterns for themselves and others. At the same time, the political patterns force individual choices and behaviors. That’s part of the complexity of living and working in complex systems. Whether you work with an underperforming employee, transform corporate culture, or advocate for social justice, you must understand the nature of emergent patterns before you can shift them.
In this session, you will learn about powerful, destructive patterns that emerge in complex systems. At the same time, you’ll discover ways to understand and influence them as your future unfolds.
Collaborate to Create Community
October 6, 2016
Collaboration is easy to talk about—almost everyone does—but it is not so easy to do. Internally and externally, all groups sing the praises of collaboration. They see the potential to create a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. Sadly, lived reality is often different. Resources and hopes are invested, and the shared effort falls short. Learn how to see, understand, and influence the conditions so shape successful collaborations in your team, organization, or community.
Your most challenging and interesting problems have never been solved before. They are “wicked” problems because they cannot be solved at all. These problems are the special territory of human systems dynamics. Our models and methods work well on tame issues, but they also help with the most wicked ones. HSD was created to help you see, understand, and influence problems that are impossible to solve. Magic 21 holds the key to seeing, understanding, and influencing intractable issues.
February 6, 2020 The emerging Age of Uncertainty requires a new kind of leader. Personal transformation, emotional intelligence, and clarity of vision will always be important. Future leaders need more. In the uncertain days to come, success for leaders will be shaped by many factors:
Systemic intelligence
Pattern recognition
Tolerance for risk and ambiguity
Humility
Creative storytelling
Inquiry
In this Live Virtual Workshop, Eoyang explores paradoxes and possibilities of leading into the unknown. Join her to consider this new paradigm.