Leadership frameworks and assessments often promise clarity, energy, and better team performance. Using The 6 Types of Working Genius as an example, this article explores where such models genuinely help and where they quietly overreach, and why leaders should treat them as conversation starters rather than sources of authority.
Link to Medium post: https://benzweibelson.medium.com/the-semiotic-square-and-systemic-logic-a-technique-for-multiple-futures-206b996cf30f
Research around whole brain thinking and a simple coaching tool to support right brain thinking.
Maturity Mapping overview and its connection to cynefin and Wardley mapping
Link to a stakeholder mapping process
An exploration of the value of models
Link to an interesting article on productivity.
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
Link to a resources pack around skills for transformation
The Three Economies an Introduction by Jabe Bloom — Read on blog.jabebloom.com/2020/03/04/the-three-economies-an-introduction/ Saving this for future reading as it fits into some of my B2BSales coaching work with senior sellers.
Interesting research on change design, support and evaluation
MG Taylor Modeling Language — Read on legacy.mgtaylor.com/mgtaylor/glasbead/expmodel.htm
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
A good article that outlines the Treacy value disciplines strategy model
Article on future planning - futurist come model
A simple sketch note on key ideas from Peter Block's Flawless Consulting "Discovery process"
An interesting article and supporting resources (documents & PDFs) on distributed decision making
A sketchnote from a session by Pierluigi Pugliese
Link to a compilation of Donald Clark’s 100 plus posts on education
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:
The Scan Focus Act facilitation model in a sketchnote summary - Taken from The Collaboration Code book series
An interesting but short overview of how leadership models have developed over time
Link to How to Draw and Judge Quadrant Diagrams
This is the fourth, in an occasional series, of articles around key concepts that have had a signifiant impact on me as a business leader, person, coach, trainer and facilitator. I originally came across the concept of the inner game and the performance long before I even knew what coaching was and far before I got trained as a professional coach. [...]
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 [...]
A practical introduction to Edward de Bono’s Direct Attention Thinking Tools (DATT), explaining how they support clearer thinking, better decisions and more deliberate problem solving.
This hub brings together practical feedback models and resources to help leaders give constructive feedback, handle difficult conversations and improve performance without damaging trust.
In preparation for a programme in October on Strategy Execution for Senior Leaders, I have been reading "Seven Strategy Questions: A simple approach for better execution" by Robert Simons, and it had an acronym on it that I liked for leadership engagement. The acronym was developed at the cosmetics company Mary Kay to espouse their beliefs about motivation. Their workers, principally [...]
Yesterday (Wednesday 3rd July 2013) I completed my ChangeWorks ChangeGrid Certification. What is ChangeWorks®? ChangeWorks is a system that applies the principles, insights, tools and techniques of “Tension Management” to supporting the change process at the individual, team and organizational levels. The focus of ChangeWorks is measuring, monitoring and managing the levels of "productive tension" the individual or population is [...]
