The full title is "The Answer to How is YES: Acting on what matters." The book in 3 sentences Peter Block argues that our obsession with asking “how?” masks a deeper avoidance of personal responsibility and purpose. Instead of chasing solutions, we should begin by saying “yes” to what truly matters and commit to it without waiting for permission or certainty. [...]
Stewardship by Peter Block is a foundational work on shifting leadership from control to service. This practical summary highlights the ideas that support trust-based partnership, shared accountability and long-term responsibility in organisations.
A practical summary of Peter Block’s Community: The Structure of Belonging, highlighting the key ideas that help leaders, facilitators and community builders create genuine belonging, trust and shared ownership.
The book in 3 sentences The Empowered Manager is a practical guide for managers who want to lead with integrity, not control. It shows how managers can choose partnership over hierarchy, service over self-interest, and accountability over compliance. By making these personal shifts, managers can foster trust, ownership, and meaningful change, regardless of the system they work in. Who should read [...]
Just & regenerative business guide from Forum for The Future: https://www.forumforthefuture.org/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=03382fe2-0bf6-42c0-9d2c-fbaa962a78f0
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.
LINK to an article on "How to Assess Uncertainty in an Unpredictable World"
Cultural Maturity – A Blog for the Future — Read on culturalmaturityblog.net/
Saving this planning ' reviewing too here for later. Read on blog.agendashift.com/2021/02/08/eating-our-own-dog-food-our-outside-in-strategy-review/
Link to the free self assessment to support reflection on career
Here are some resources I am saving to investigate OODA loop and weak signals: OODA: https://taylorpearson.me/ooda-loop/ https://fs.blog/2018/01/john-boyd-ooda-loop/ https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/ooda-loop/ https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2020/3/17/the-ooda-loop-and-the-half-beat https://www.leadershipforces.com/ooda-loop-2/ http://weblog.tetradian.com/2016/08/30/sense-make-sense-decide-act/ https://www.cognitive-edge.com/the-ooda-loop-cynefin/ Weak signals: https://gofore.com/en/using-weak-signals-in-business/ https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-to-make-sense-of-weak-signals/ https://www.sitra.fi/en/articles/what-is-a-weak-signal/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/252094981_Seeing_the_Future_in_Weak_Signals http://epub.lib.aalto.fi/pdf/diss/a365.pdf https://hbr.org/2005/11/scanning-the-periphery https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1048984315000363 https://www.foncsi.org/fr/recherche/axes/facteurs-reussite-REX/identifying-and-responding-to-weak-signals-to-improve-learning-from-experiences-in-high-risk-industry https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/303768127.pdf https://greyswanguild.medium.com/sensemaking-creating-a-new-lexicon-for-making-sense-of-the-covid-world-c1fe4ea68a77 https://www.cognitive-edge.com/needs-in-haystacks/ My tweet for help on this and replies can be found: https://mobile.twitter.com/Andi_Roberts/status/1328066901017235461
Link to article on the use of an antilibrary
Saving this series for reading later https://www.equalexperts.com/blog/our-thinking/continuous-evolution-part-1-an-agile-strategy-for-an-unpredictable-world/
Saving article for future reading https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/09/16/squad-health-check-model/
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
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 saved for later on facilitation. Via Scott Gould...By focusing on strategy instead of tactics, content can come and go, but the foundation will stay solid for the long-term. — Read on www.gatheringeffect.com/blog/how-to-create-gatherings-that-scale
Link to resources from Map Camp 2020
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.
Plotting Strategy in a Dynamic World — Read on sloanreview.mit.edu/article/plotting-strategy-in-a-dynamic-world/
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 engagement in Covid-19 times
Article on future planning - futurist come model
Link to article with four models that look at facets of devolved decision making / sense making.
lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/The Future Civilization.pdf
Link to article: The Futures Cone, use and history
A paper by Steve Munby on the future of leadership development in the education sector.
A link to a page with a number of articles on VUCA.
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
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 [...]
A VIMEO video and slide deck on strategy visualisation
A collection of visual canvases
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 [...]
