Most leadership challenges are not about choosing between right and wrong, but between two versions of right. This article explores how to recognise and manage those recurring tensions, known as polarities, so that leaders can balance control and trust, stability and change, without losing coherence.
How can you tell what kind of problem you’re really facing and lead accordingly? Using the Cynefin Framework, this article explores how leaders make sense of complexity, adapt their approach across five domains, and find clarity amid uncertainty. A practical guide to leading with awareness, experimentation, and collective sensemaking.
We live in cultures that prize collaboration and connection. In workplaces, “team player” is often the highest compliment, while in families and communities, loyalty and togetherness are praised as the ultimate virtues. Yet beneath this emphasis on belonging lies a quieter challenge: the ability to act independently, to make decisions without leaning too heavily on approval, advice, or reassurance. In [...]
Tired of endless meetings? Learn how to reclaim time by distinguishing between one way and two way door decisions, empowering people, and making meetings matter again.
The Waterline Principle helps leaders and teams decide when to act alone and when to consult. It offers a shared language for risk and responsibility, anchored in three questions: the upside, the downside, and whether you can truly live with the loss.
Cynefin.net a resourcing for sensemaking tools and techniques: — Read on wiki.sensemaker-suite.com/index.php/Main_Page
Article on decision making by Amazon CEO
Article on future planning - futurist come model
Link to article with four models that look at facets of devolved decision making / sense making.
Interesting read, held for later: What is joint problem framing? What are the key issues that joint problem framing has to address? How can joint problem framing be improved? What is joint problem framing? A key aspect of tackling complex problems is effectively bringing together differing points of view. These points of view are… — Read on i2insights.org/2020/06/23/framework-for-problem-framing/
