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Positive Chaos: Transforming Crisis into Clarity and Advantage

Leading Blog

In Positive Chaos , Dan Thurmon explains how to do just that. Quite naturally, we tend to see chaos as overwhelming, confusing, stressful, and frenzied. C HAOS is ubiquitous and inevitable. But with the right mindset and skillset, you can turn it to your advantage. There are many ways to see the world.

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Leadership and the New Science

Deming Institute

Leadership and the New Science: Learning about Organizations from an Orderly Universe by Margaret Wheatley does a good job of exploring how to view organizations as a system. But the real eye-opener for me was to realize how control and order were two different things, and that you could have order without control.

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How to Unleash Possibility in 2015

Management Craft

Here is a thought about how to get back on track. Taking on new challenges at work - so foreign, that one should wonder if I know how to begin. But we all get off course sometimes and that does not make us any less amazing - we''re like Ferrari sport cars parked in our garages. Not performing because the engine is off.

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How to Unleash Possibility in 2015

Management Craft

Here is a thought about how to get back on track. Taking on new challenges at work - so foreign, that one should wonder if I know how to begin. But we all get off course sometimes and that does not make us any less amazing - we're like Ferrari sport cars parked in our garages. Not performing because the engine is off.

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