Link – Future Career Readiness Index
Link to the free self assessment to support reflection on career
Article: How to Increase the Flow of Knowledge Across an Organization
Article link that explores "Connection before content"
Interview – Wardley Mapping Spotlight – Sue Borchardt
Saving for later...... On Monday, I had the honour to talk to Sue Borchardt. Do not let her twitter bio "mereologist in training" fool you, Sue is a true polymath despite the fact she did not permit herself to use that name. In the video, Sue covers lots of important aspects of using Wardley Mapping for personal development, such as searchin [...]
Article – Flexuosity untangled
Read once and saving for a deeper read ' reflection: Flexuosity untangled – Cognitive Edge — Read on www.cognitive-edge.com/flexuosity-untangled/
Polarizing Topics – how to deal with
How to deal with Polarizing Topics in difficult conversations
Article Squad Health Check model
Saving article for future reading https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/09/16/squad-health-check-model/
Article – Sensemaking in Organizations: Reflections on Karl Weick and Social Theory
Saving for reading https://www.epicpeople.org/sensemaking-in-organizations/ Follow on article: https://www.epicpeople.org/sensemaking-methodology/
Article – Strategy is what you DO, not what you SAY
Held to read the complete series later,,, This is the fourth in my series of Playing to Win Practitioner Insights (PTW/PI). The first was The Role of Management Systems in Strategy, the second was Is the Opposite of Your Choice Stupid on its… — Read on roger-78069.medium.com/strategy-is-what-you-do-not-what-you-say-a6e483840557
Article – Radical Listening to Improve Understanding of System Dynamics
Saving for later. The ideas don't seem radical, but certainly not common practice https://medium.com/@drsaraschung/radical-listening-to-improve-understanding-of-system-dynamics-f1bacee8c875
Article – psychological safety
Saving this for future reading.. https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/what-is-psychological-safety-at-work/?utm_campaign=1-LeadersAtAllLevels%2C2-LE_Article%2C3-Custom&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&s=09
Article – 5 Principles to Guide Adaptive Leadership
Article on Adaptive Leadership from HBR
B329 Content Overview
Slide deck showing what is covered each week in B329
Article: Plotting Strategy in a Dynamic World
Plotting Strategy in a Dynamic World — Read on sloanreview.mit.edu/article/plotting-strategy-in-a-dynamic-world/
Paper: How to design, implement and evaluate organizational interventions for maximum impact: the Sigtuna Principles
Interesting research on change design, support and evaluation
Link: Complex systems science allows us to see new paths forward
A pretty long read, so Savin for later..The pandemic is an unprecedented opportunity – seeing human society as a complex system opens a better future for us all — Read on aeon.co/essays/complex-systems-science-allows-us-to-see-new-paths-forward
Article: Too Much Cross Talk. Too Little Creativity. How to Fix the Worst Parts of a Virtual Meeting.
Interesting tips on virtual facilitation
Link: Julian Stodd 100 days of Curiosity
Link to Julian's new 100 days process on curiosity
Article on Treacy model of value disciplines
A good article that outlines the Treacy value disciplines strategy model
Article: Bottling Esprit de Corps – Covid-19
Article on engagement in Covid-19 times
Article: How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
Article on future planning - futurist come model
Article: Leadership and the small group
Link to article: Leadership and the small group
link: Feedback – Experience Cube
Link to a feedback process from Dr Gervase Bushe
Slides: Peter Block on Community & Questions
Link to PDF: designwithdialogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/peterblock.pdf The following also supports the ideas here: http://www.chaosmanagement.com/images/stories/pdfs/Notes%20on%20Peter%20Block%27s%20book%20on%20Community.pdf As does http://kr.mnsu.edu/~jp5985fj/courses/230/Block.doc
Article: Towards Burja Mapping
Lost this and found again, so saving... https://tasshin.com/blog/towards-burja-mapping/
Resource: VISIBLE WOMEN – HOW TO UNLOCK POTENTIAL AND CREATE A TALENTED PIPELINE OF SENIOR WOMEN LEADERS
Link to ebook on senior female leadership pipelines
Article: Building Snowmobiles – All By Ourselves
An interesting article and supporting resources (documents & PDFs) on distributed decision making
Article: The Future of Command and Control-4 Models to Provoke Thought
Link to article with four models that look at facets of devolved decision making / sense making.
Article: The Guide to Allyship
GUIDE TO ALLYSHIP An open source starter guide to help you become a more thoughtful and effective ally. — Read on guidetoallyship.com/
Article: Finding simplicity in chaos: Beyond VUCA — People Matters
Some interesting points in this, so holding here for later reading...Read to know why we need a more thoughtful way of making sense of our emerging chaos and uncertainty — Read on www.peoplematters.in/article/life-at-work/finding-simplicity-in-chaos-beyond-vuca-25159
Article – Sensemaking 101: tips for improving your sensemaking in a time of confusion
My work at The National Lottery Community Fund and beyond involves hosting people in sensemaking processes. Good sensemaking is important for any group or team who are trying to make sense of the… — Read on medium.com/@phoebetickell/sensemaking-101-tips-for-improving-your-sensemaking-in-a-time-of-confusion-c2399a5f9981
Link – VISUAL POLICY ANALYSIS
A link to the work done by Michelle Buchholz on Visual Policy Analysis
Article: How to foster ‘shoshin’
Article link: How to foster ‘shoshin’
Article: The Futures Cone, use and history – The Voroscope
Link to article: The Futures Cone, use and history
book – leading and managing people in the dynamic organisation
Link to the book leading and managing people in the dynamic organisation
Article: Integrating Chaos: Building Resilient Organizations with Chaos Theory
Article to read later: Chaos Theory says that organizations are "complex adaptive systems" and that through this lens, we can build emergent, adaptive and resilient organizations. Read on here think-boundless.com/chaos-theory/
Article: What Psychological Safety Actually Means For Teams
Saving for later: how trust in groups works, and why it matters — Read on www.shanesnow.com/teamwork/psychological-safety
Host Leadership – Sketchnote
A sketchnote from a session by Pierluigi Pugliese
Leadership development – paper to read
A paper by Steve Munby on the future of leadership development in the education sector.
Understand Myself – Big 5 Facets Pschology
Link to Big 5 test by Jordan B Peterson and supporting resources
Vuca paper
A paper from MDV on VUCA
Vuca article
A link to a page with a number of articles on VUCA.
Recovery Star – Resilience
The Recovery Star developed by the Association of Mental Health Providers (formely the Mental Health Providers Forum), is an outcomes measure which enables people using services to measure their own recovery progress, with the help of mental health workers or others. Recovery Star | Mental Health Partnerships:
Mapping – Leading Culturally Diverse Teams in the Workplace
Via Kulvir Bahra The first process of the MBI model is to map cultural differences present in the team. In this article, we learn how to actually do this in a team. — Read on www.futurelearn.com/courses/harnessing-cultural-diversity/2/steps/699233
Beyond VUCA > DELA
THIS is an interesting post on the idea of post VUCA by Marguerite Coetzee. Via Dave Snowden on twitter.
Remote Worktree – remote working resource
A link to Remote Worktree a resource for remote workers and their leaders
Habit change
This "hub" page contains a range of resources around habit change. In order you will find sketch notes, book summaries and then articles - all denoted by different icons I have been a big fan of BJ Foggs work for quite a few years now and have written blog posts on his ideas previously. He has recently launched a [...]
Leadership theories over time
An interesting but short overview of how leadership models have developed over time
Comfort Zone
This is the fifth in a series of articles around key concepts that have impacted me personally and professionally over the course of my career. I cam across the phrase of comfort zone early in my career when working at Plas-Y-Brenin, The National Centre for Mountain Activities in Snowdonia North Wales. All instructors were asked to stretch course participants out of their [...]
Stop – Challenge – Choose
This is the second of ten blog articles around concepts that have had a significant on me as a manager, leaders, coach and facilitator. “Stop, Challenge and Choose” is a powerful concept that I learnt back in 1994, when working with a client to deliver an 18,000 person training programme in 18 months. The programme was based around the work developed [...]
Circle of Control
This is the first of a series of blog pieces around what I consider to be the most essential concepts I have come across in the course of my 20 years as a manager, leader, trainer, coach. The first of these is attributed to the great author Stephen Covey, and comes from his book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. [...]