I really like this quote. I’ve been using it a bit recently while teaching and explaining Facilitative Leadership
Simple.
The Master doesn’t talk, she acts. When her work is done, the people say, “Amazing: we did it, all by
ourselves!” – Adapted, from Tao Te Ching (17)
Martin
London was burning. The world saw an Arab Spring, and in London and San Francisco — across Europe and North America — we celebrated other people’s civil discontent as a sign of positive transformation. Why did we not celebrate our own civil unrest? Read the rest of this entry »
The WorldBlu conference on organisational democracy was organised around Traci Fenton’s 10 principles for what makes an organisation “democratic”. While many people think “majority-rule voting” when they hear the word democracy, Traci thinks of freedom. It is this broader definition that makes her vision worth hearing. Read the rest of this entry »
We often talk about — or hear about — companies and leaders and integrity. Integrity is frequently defined as “acting in accord with high moral values” or the like. I prefer a completely different definition which often has the same effect. I prefer to speak of integrity as wholeness. Read the rest of this entry »
People are talking a lot about using games to drive business. Do people really feel overwhelmingly attracted to badges and leaderboards?
Well, no. We want many things, and little digital badges perhaps least. We want the things the badges represent, if we want the badges at all. Business-people that don’t understand the difference will put badges and leaderboards on their websites, call it gamification, get capital to grow (from internal or external investors) and then lose it all. Because yet again, people will have mistaken badges (derivatives, dot.com stocks, tulips) for value. Want to skip the bubble? Read on.
Sociocracy – the term means ‘collaborative governance’ – hard-wires ‘People Care’ and ‘Fair Share’ into the fabric of an organisation by ensuring that every member has an equivalent voice in policy. Like other living systems a sociocratic organisation relies on cyclical feedback processes to stay in tune with its members and its environment. Some call Sociocracy ‘organisational permaculture’.
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Francois Knuchel offers a personal plea for democracy in the workplace. You can find out more about dynamic or collaborative self-governance at the UK info hub.
Leaders, business schools, politicians, communities and organisations around the country seem to agree that after the 2008 crash the societal system as we know it no longer works, and our way of living and running our organisations is not sustainable. All seem to be grappling to find new ways of doing things, yet in the vacuum everything seems to revert to the status quo. Of course, as Einstein said, you don’t solve problems with the same ideas that created them…
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One practice allow some organizations to learn and respond creatively when others do not. In turbulent times, this is the difference between prosperity and dissolution. This practice is a feature of the current wave of lean, agile and cooperative business; I believe it is the future if we have one. Read the rest of this entry »
Peer Mentoring is easy. Not only can anyone do it, but everyone already does. The issue, of course, is whether we do it well.
Somebody asked me whether it is ethical to coach people when you have only a few hours of training under your belt. I don’t think it’s ethical to lie about how much training you have, but I think the question misses the point. Read the rest of this entry »