Category Archives: Leadership
Self-Organisation, Open Source Learning and Participatory Leadership in Crisis
Here is a link to the article that I wrote about my experiences attempting to apply participatory leadership practices during the ‘refugee crisis’ in the Balkans in 2015. Gratitude to the Journal of the Association for Management Education and Development for publishing … Continue reading
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Posted in Hosting, Leadership, Reflection
Tagged Art of Hosting, Balkans, learnings, Participatory Leadership, reflections, refugees
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Adaptive Leadership in Healthcare
I just listened to an interesting podcast from Plexus Institute in which Dr. Marcus Thygeson discusses the application of adaptive leadership to healthcare.
Several years ago, I discovered Ronald Heifetz in this article on leadership in Fast Company magazine. I can … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Leadership, Living Systems
Tagged adaptive leadership, complexity, healthcare, Leadership, Ronald Heifetz
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Leadership in Times of Complexity and Chaos
The Leader’s Framework for Decision Making by David J. Snowden and Mary E. Boone
Harvard Business Review November 2007
This article provides a really nice connection between complexity theory and leadership, suggesting that different styles of leadership are needed for varying contexts:
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Engaging Emergence
What I liked about Engaging Emergence by Peggy Holman is that it took the concept out of the concept of fuzziness and provided some history and rigor in thinking about it. As pointed out by my friend Robin with her … Continue reading
Posted in Hosting, Leadership
Tagged complexity, emergence, Santa Fe Institute, systems
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A simple explanation of the Cynefin Framework
A simple explanation of the cynefin framework for understanding the distinctions between simple, complicated, complex and chaotic. I find this a very useful framework for looking at organizational issues and problems and determining appropriate responses.
SCARF Model ~ David Rock
Posted in Leadership, Neuroscience
Tagged brain, David Rock, Neuroscience, SCARF, Video
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Productivity in Healthcare
One of my more vivid memories from my days in healthcare leadership were the painful and adversarial struggles over productivity that seemed to constantly escalate over the past several years.
Payers expected productivity and they set their reimbursement rates accordingly. … Continue reading
Posted in Healthcare, Leadership
Tagged Articles/Documents, Axialent, CHD, Fred Kofman, ontological, productivity
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The Empathic Civilization
Posted in Leadership, Neuroscience
Tagged Empathy, Jeremy Fifkin, RSA animates, Video
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