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Category Archives "Leadership"

Walking with complexity frameworks

February 27, 2017 By Chris Corrigan Bowen, Complexity, Evaluation, Featured, Leadership, Learning 3 Comments

Last weekend I took a ramble across Bowen Island, where I live, with a friend and colleague, Annemarie Travers.  Annemarie and I have been teaching the Leadership 2020 program for a number of years now and we both love walking: she on the long pilgrimages of the Camino and Shikoku and me in the mountains of southern British Columbia.  We are also both interested in managing in complexity.

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Complexity and movements change culture

September 13, 2016 By Chris Corrigan Collaboration, Community, Complexity, Culture, Design, Emergence, Evaluation, Facilitation, Flow, Improv, Leadership, Learning, Organization, Philanthropy

As Bronagh Gallagher and I have been musing about our offering on complexity, facilitation and social justice, we have been discussing the shift in activism from ideology to evolutionary. Ideological movements try to coalesce activities and people along a line towards a fixed end state. Evolutionary movements start with intentions, principles and move outward in multiple directions along vectors.  They adjust and learn as they go, and they both respond to and change their context. This nice post from Network Centered Advocacy capgtues what I’m talking about by first looking at how a lacrosse player’s artistry evolves in changing contexts …

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Leadership traits for working in diverse contexts

September 6, 2016 By Chris Corrigan Leadership One Comment

Vu Le pays tribute today to his friend Bob Santos who was a leader in Seattle in the field of non-profit leadership and social change. To do so he listed nine key traits for leaders working in diversity, and the whole post is like an index to a life long curriculum on managing diverse teams in diverse contexts.  Leaders, especially those with traditional privilege in the non-profit sector, would do well to see these as basics rules to guide their leadership: See the strength in uncertainty Consider differing viewpoints Understand that everyone is affected by unjust systems Remember that we …

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Radical innovation is never acceptable

August 29, 2016 By Chris Corrigan Emergence, Featured, First Nations, Leadership, Organization, Philanthropy, Youth 9 Comments

My friend and colleague Bronagh Gallagher and I are in the early stages of creating a learning offering around complexity, facilitation and activism, whereby we try to bring complexity and participatory tools to the work of social change.  We’ve been assembling some very interesting sources for our work and she recently introduced me to the work of Micah White who has written about protest and activism from a complexity perspective.  I’m working my way through some interviews he gave in support of his book, The End of Protest.  Here is one juicy line: This is fundamental. All effective forms of protest …

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Talking about counting things

June 23, 2016 By Chris Corrigan Conversation, Evaluation, Leadership 2 Comments

Sometimes people see that I’m a dialogue practitioner and the assume that I am not a fan of quantitative measurement. I think this has to do with the fact that the dialogue practitioner community has been a kind of antithesis to the “measure and manage” world of empirical scientific management. In any endeavour both qualitative and quantitative measurements are important. The issue isn’t whether or not numbers are to be more trusted than meaning making; the issue is whether we are measuring thing properly. The issue is whether or not we use measurements as targets or gauges. Again, this is …

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