Taholah, Washington If this article is any indication, the future of management will require more hosts and less bosses. Hierarchies are disappearing, top-down and centralized is giving way to distributed, and organizations are becoming more open and engaging of stakeholders. That is true everywhere in my experience, including here at the Quinault Indian Nation where we are reframing the tribal government’s strategic plan in several unique ways. First we have established a core team of stakeholders from the government and community who are willing to take responsibility for stewarding the plan. Second, the core team has proposed …
Tahola, Washington From Euan: Management is becoming about noticing and enabling rather than driving and controlling.Get yourselves a big melting pot of different social tools that engender different conversations and expressions of intent from your staff, watch like a hawk, spot the cool stuff, fan the flames and then protect the baby shoots from your spoilers. Nice.
Seattle, Washington Tuesday wrapped wup with a great high energy keynote from Van Jones, director of the Ella Baker Center in Oakland, California.. This harvest was co-written by Nancy White, Teresa Posakony and Chris Corrigan Van was nervous prior to his talk – some “jackass” came up and tapped him on his shoulder and interrupted his contemplation. “Don’t mess with me! I”m a spiritual agent.” I turned around and it was Peter Senge trying to wish me some good luck. We face the challenge of helping people to rise to the occasion of their lives. You get better, stronger, clearer, …
Seattle, Washington. This morning’s keynote was a four person panel presentation from the team that created the Boeing Operations Centre, which is the primary face of Boeing’s interaction with their customers, helping them with maintenance and servicing issues. The presentation was given by Peter Weertman, Bruce Rund, Bob Wiebe and Darren Macer. This post is a collaborative harvest of that keynote by myself, Tenneson Woolf and Teresa Posakony. One thing to notice about people that work at Boeing is that they almost always talk about their relationship to planes dating back to being kids, they take great pride in their …
Otto Scharmer’s keynote was yesterday evening and here is our harvest of that… Otto began by talking about The Blind Spot of Leadership…missing the deeper way we human beings relate to one another in the social field. What is missed here is the deeper dimension that is always there but usually not attended to. Why can’t we see this blind spot, that is the source of all of our doing? What can we do about being blind to this source? We are blind to this because we focus on results and process, and not the sources of these two things. …