Creating Authentic Solutions for Stubborn Systemic Problems
Which conditions, situations, events or people have the potential of posing significant hazard to a going concern, thus warranting the installation of a risk management function? In business, the extent of one’s success and failure is measured in monetary equivalents. Consequently, risk is measured in monetary equivalents as well. What is Risk? Risk refers to …
The word “misperception” means a wrong or incorrect understanding or interpretation, whereas the word “quality” means the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something. So, what IS the “standard”, the “measurement”, or the “degree of excellence” that is being misperceived? Let’s investigate. What IS Quality? Robert Pirsig argues …
Webinar of 25th August, 2020
Accidents or, better still, incidents (accidents and near-misses) are effects. Effects are neither good nor bad; they are what they are, they are neutral. In fact, they only obtain meaning once we assess their implication on our lives and attribute a commensurate value to them. Furthermore, effects do not materialize by themselves as by magic, …
PLEASE, stop making problem solving overly-complicated―the complication is hardly in the problem or in the situation; it’s in your approach, your perception of what’s going on. Stop listening to self-proclaimed experts or gurus who profess to have discovered a secret solution to your problem, coaxing you to adopt their proprietary n-step best practice. You may …
Why would one join a coaching group, get oneself an executive coach, or hire an outside consultant? Why? What’s the purpose? What prompts one’s decision? What does one hope to get out of it? Do expectations match reality? Yes, it’s rather comforting to be surrounded by one’s peers, people who can relate to your own …
On December 15th 1903 Wilbur Wright telegraphed his father and sister “Success Assured”. Mind you, that was two days before he and his brother Orville made the first successful manned, controlled, and sustained flight in a heavier than air flying machine in history—the birth of aviation. You may ask, what bolstered Wilbur’s confidence? I’m telling you, there’s …
It cannot be stated often enough, repeated again-and-again, business IS a system. As a matter of fact, we live our lives in relationships to systems, whether they be economic, social, educational, political, geographic, or family. WHAT IS A SYSTEM? A system is a network comprised of COMPONENT PARTS—including people—and their CONNECTIONS. Every part contributes its own unique …
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Today, on my walk with my dog Enzo, I was wondering about the meaning of BEING a leader. How does one become a leader anyway? And, what is its significance for other people? How does it affect their lives? These musings were prompted by the daily avalanche of descriptors of leadership—what it IS—provided by nearly every leadership adviser, …
Change is an EVENT in the relationship between the desired state and the current state of a business. Events are characterized by a distinct relationship between a CAUSE and an EFFECT. Causes occur either by accident or by choice. Effects are the telltale of the occurrence of an event; effects are the only phenomena we observe or experience, while …