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.
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…
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…
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…
The Hard Truth at the Heart of Collaboration
If I continue to show myself as an expert who must behave ‘expertly’ to meet expectations, I hide who I really am. I’m…
Bankers and the Path of Vulnerability
The story of Ken Henry and the Commission is a story about vulnerability and our powerful desire to minimise it.
Manual focus on collaborative capability
How your brain can be "rewired" by changing a long established practice- relevant in collaboration as much as…
A Dangerous Idea- Love your Enemy!
I was struck by her comment on the really dangerous ideas in our civil discourse- things like blinding certainty and…
Wine, Castles and Complexity
A trip to the Alsace delivers unexpected lessons on complexity
Two things that collaboration is NOT
As I listen to people learning to collaborate, some of their difficulties seem to emerge from their ideas about what…