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Monthly Archives "October 2015"

You’re not at good at failure as you think you are.

October 27, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Being, Complexity, Featured, Improv, Leadership, Practice 3 Comments

Somehow that statement is worth keeping nearby in my work.  For me and everyone I work with. I spend a lot of time working with people who need or want to do something new.  And no level of new work – innovation, boundary breaking, next levelling or shifting – is possible without failure.  A lot of it. Much more often than not. Today, working with 37 leaders from human social services and government in our Leadership 2020 program, Caitlin asked a question: “How many of you have bosses that say it’s okay to fail?  How many of you have said …

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The line that threads through our hearts

October 7, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Being, Invitation 2 Comments

“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” — Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago This.  And a small vignette. In our circle yesterday, Caitlin arrived a little late, and took a seat on the outside of the rim. The one who noticed was a Chinese-Vietnamese woman who had come to Canada as a child refugee in the 1970s, stuffed into a dangerous boat with hundreds of others fleeing …

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Probes, Prototypes and Pilot projects

October 5, 2015 By Chris Corrigan Complexity, Evaluation, Featured One Comment

I’ve been working in the world of program development with a lot of complexity and innovation and co-creation lately and have seen these three terms used sometimes interchangeably to describe a strategic move. As a result, I’ve been adopting a more disciplined approach to these three kinds of activities. First some definitions. Taken explicitly from Cynefin, a probe is an activity that teaches you about the context that you are working with. The actual outcome of the probe doesn’t matter much because the point is to create an intervention of some kind and see how your context responds. You learn …

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