A Flower, a Bear and a Cross-Eyes walked into a classroom…

It seems they ran an engagement process but not a collaborative process designed to generate ownership of outcomes.

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The Light on the Hill – a direction not a destination

When facing complexity nothing is certain. So much is ambiguous, even unknown. The knowledge doesn’t exist so the team…

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When being clear may instead dull the light on the hill

As it turned out, the real value of the broader and less distinct "light on the hill" only became apparent later, with…

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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 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…

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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.

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Manual focus on collaborative capability

How your brain can be "rewired" by changing a long established practice- relevant in collaboration as much as…

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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…

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