What migraines taught me about overmanaging

I woke with a migraine, and dragged myself to the meeting feeling pretty terrible, so just had to sit there and let it happen around me.

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Surviving workplace disruption #1

I wonder how the occupants of these new offices, specifically designed for collaboration, will adapt to these new…

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Are you planning to act or acting to learn?

Rather than plan in order to act, Bob found more success when he began to act in order to learn....

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If only we had a new meeting structure…..

In looking back, I've realised that I was seeing a common pitfall when tackling complexity- seeking a simple solution…

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A Parent’s Guide to Complexity

We may not know what it’s going to take to get there but we know that this is what we are working towards.

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Experimenting with a new thought……. by Bridget Marsh

So I get clients to experiment.....try a new thought.  Like trying on new ideas they need to see how it feels and…

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Just try stuff…. (or let’s call it experimentation)

she just tries something, checks to see if it is getting her closer to a useful result, and then either does more of…

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Is Best Practice Water Management a Myth?

By focussing on delivering a best practice program we greatly increase the likelihood that we are doing this program…

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The risk of your ‘like’ bubble

I am noticing more and more as I surf the web how my apps keep managing my feeds- identifying what I click, like,…

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What can El Capitan Teach Us About Managing Complexity?

The climber on an unfamiliar face is an experimenter.  She hypothesises: “If I follow that crack it should get me…

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The ABC of Complexity

As I write, the head of Australia's public broadcaster, the ABC, has just announced a very significant restructure of…

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