Category: Creativity
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Become a now-ist
Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present. In this talk Joi Ito, the head of the MIT Media Lab, shares an approach to creating in the moment. Build quickly and improve constantly, without waiting for permission or proof that you have the right idea. It starts, he says, with being open…
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The uncovering of the U-process
TAI Presents Joseph Jaworski who tells the story about the uncovering of the U-process. The presentation is divided into the seven videos: Part 1(7) (Joseph Jaworski starts talking at 8:50) Part 2(7) (Joseph Jaworski mentions Eleanor Rosch at 0:08 and David Bohm at 3:50) Part 3(7) (Joseph Jaworksi mentions Brian Arthur at 2:17) Part 4(7)…
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The Elements
The Elements with Joseph Jaworski is an interesting series of short videos on: Generative Strategy — integrating experience along the strategic path as it unfolds Discovery — The heart of the entrepreneurial impulse is your capacity to discover new ways to grow a business Power Of Intention — opening doors with commitment Generative Dialogue —…
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Book Review: Labcraft
Labcraft: How innovation labs cultivate change through experimentation and collaboration is a book which illustrates ways in which labs cultivate change through experimentation and collaboration. The labs themselves are part of an emerging family of hybrid organizations which create dialogue, cross-pollinate perspectives, and create space for new things to emerge. The book was co-authored by…
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Nio grundläggande mänskliga behov
Här är nio grundläggande mänskliga behov från Marshall Rosenbergs kurs i Nonviolent Communication: Försörjning (grundläggande fysiska behov, mat, luft, vatten, tak över huvudet) Trygghet (skydd) Kärlek Empati Vila (rekreation, lek) Gemenskap Kreativitet Autonomi (starkt behov av att välja vår egen väg i livet, finns vid liv i oss från tidig ålder) Mening (leva livet fullt…
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Nine basic human needs
Marshall Rosenberg mentions nine basic human needs in his NVC training course Session #3 (22 minutes from start): Sustenance (basic physical needs, food, air, water, shelter) Safety (protection) Love Empathy Rest (recreation, play) Community (warm) Creativity Autonomy (strong need to choose our own way in life, is alive in us from an early age) Meaning…
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How to confront complex challenges as a team?
I am now reading Leading from the Emerging Future by Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer. Chapter 4 of the book is about the Source: Connecting to Intention and Awareness. Whenever a team, or an organization, is to confront a complex challenge which requires collective creativity, the following stages emerge: Suspension. A precondition is to stop…
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How to kill creativity
Take two minutes and watch this video. See what happens when third grade students think there is a correct answer. The consequences are profound.
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On working in a connected workplace
Jon Husband has been studying the sociology of human social systems and the structures and dynamics of the organizations in which they work and play for the last 40 years. He has coined and defined the term and concept of wirearchy, which is a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority based on knowledge, trust,…
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Interesting blogs
Here’s a list of some of my favorite blogs: The Intentional Workplace by Louise Altman, Twitter: @intentionalcomm Transforming Work One Conversation at a Time gonna.grow.wings by David Holzmer, Twitter: @DavidHolzmer Leadership | Innovation | Emergence | Empathy Decoding the challenges & mystery of Leadership as a web of complexity, relationality and human development quantum shifting…