Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
I'm sad to report that in the past few years ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones we view competing ideas as enemies and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!
Determination energy and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context.
Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
In our daily life we encounter people who are angry deceitful intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger distrust greed and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.