Icebergs and how metaphors pervert our thinking
We fill our pygmalion fantasies of being fortune-tellers or futurists — swallowing our confirmation bias, prognosticating our defecation.
How do novelty and innovation emerge within an organization?
Novelty and innovation emerge through people acting and sharing. Starting with local interactions, it spreads & takes on a pattern of change.
Questions to ask to make training stick
For learning and development to last the connection of lessons learned and the work needs to be explicit. Questions to make training stick.
10 solution-focused questions for impact when you have no or little direct authority or power within the team or department
10 solution-focused questions that may help share information or make an improvement in an area or department where you have little to no power or influence.
Identity is coherence with the voice inside your head
Coherence to who you are in the story you tell yourself and your interactions with that voice inside your head.
Communication is a big problem with work – and that is how it ought to be
Communication is interpersonal, changes with interactions, & room for discourse and disagreement are clear valuable attractors for innovation.
Team Entanglement, the interactions are what makes progress
SOLVED solution-focused problem solving and leadership. Interaction increases psychological safety—questions to increase participation.
When will we stop Leadership fetishization?
Leadership through harmonious wholes of people “doing what is right,” we remove disruption, variation, and change. Ethics of leadership
Company culture assessment opening questions
Company culture queries – discuss the boundaries and connections to know the work plus the work culture for feedback and change to happen.
Five whats and a how – solution-focused method to make team progress
Five whats and a how work with you and your team to move from root cause problem solving to solution-focused solution innovation.