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Leading Thoughts for March 5, 2020

Leading Blog

Quinn on the connection between changing a system and understanding it: “Kurt Lewin argued that we cannot really begin to understand a system until we try to change it. As soon as a change agent introduces a variation to that system, he or she will quickly learn about the scripts that are holding that system together.

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How to Use Intelligent Failure and Controlled Chaos to Strengthen Agility Ability

The Practical Leader

That brings us to the innovation paradox: Random, chaotic, and unpredictable innovations need a stable management system and process to nurture the growth and development of “lucky breaks.” Quinn concluded, “My research reveals that few, if any, major innovations result from highly structured planning systems.

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How to Accelerate Lerning and Change Lives

Leading Blog

“As the teacher and the students commit to a common purpose and form high-quality relationships, they become a system that has emergent possibilities. In a co-creative, collaborative environment, students hold each other accountable, leadership is shared, and new perspectives emerge. The teacher/leader becomes a facilitator.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Using Feedback to Lead Forward

The Practical Leader

” - Laura Morgan Roberts, Gretchen Spreitzer, Jane Dutton, Robert Quinn, Emily Heaphy, and Brianna Barker, “How to Play to Your Strengths,” Harvard Business Review. ————————————-.

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Recommended aim, with examples

Deming Institute

Daniel Quinn, in the Ishmael trilogy, hinted that it’s entirely possible to create subcultures with an aim like Deming’s recommendation. Quinn calls them tribes, and they are essentially groups of people who form purpose-based organizations. Jimmy Stewart makes the case for them in the classic movie, It’s a Wonderful Life.

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Systemically Non-Systemic: COVID-19 through the Deming Lens

Deming Institute

Deming’s “Appreciation for a System,” one of the four components of his System of Profound Knowledge. A knowledge of his systems approach provides a framework to help us understand how a pandemic such as we are experiencing occurs and even perhaps how it might be addressed. Nor am I an epidemiologist.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

They define your shared belief system. A masterful leader identifies ways to better align people and systems to achieve the organization’s purpose. From that purpose, all activities in your organization should flow. Let’s dive into the key elements of corporate purpose. Organizational experts Robert E.