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Honor in Development
Feel free to read the title in all its variations in meaning. There is honor in development. One can be in development regarding honor. One can have honor with respect to development. I recommend all three. Here is what I … Continue reading
Posted in Contegrity Principles, Development, Power, Right Gradient
Tagged organizational development, personal development
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You Can Lead A Horse To Development, but….
I recently received an email from a friend that contained the quip, “You can lead a person to knowledge, but you can’t make them think.” It had a picture of a horse staring back at the reader, head held high but … Continue reading
Posted in Contegrity Principles, Development
Tagged corporate development, personal development
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All Issues are Time Issues
Issues and difficulties can look like they are circumstantial, or personal, or competence- or action-based (not enough results, not enough money, not enough people or talent, etc.) Addressing them as such will get you in trouble — not the kind … Continue reading
Posted in Contegrity Principles, Development, Power, Unfolding
Tagged oranizational consulting, personal development
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Basics of a Developmental Partnership
This is a tricky topic. My intent is to sketch out a sound relational basis for being in development with someone, or for offering development to someone. What makes outlining a proper relation in that area tricky is that a true … Continue reading
Solve the Simple, Transition the Complex
If it’s simple, just solve the problem. If it’s complex, transition. Whatever you do, don’t solve a transition as if it was merely a simple problem. What does all this mean? If the situation, issue or crisis before you: is … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Unfolding
Tagged organizational consulting, organizational development, transitions
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Always and Only One Developmental Theme Up
This post ought to be fairly short. Its length is out of proportion to its importance. If pressed I would say that this is the heart of the matter of development, and it is rarely well done. The title is more … Continue reading
Posted in Contegrity Principles, Development, Right Gradient, Unfolding
Tagged Development, One Theme Up
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Appropriate Response to Well-Timed Disruption — Thank You
Disruption has a general reputation that it does not deserve. It is often held as an irritant, a faux pas, an attack, an undermine, oneupsmanship, and so on. It has this reputation because people do not do it well enough, … Continue reading
Posted in Contegrity Principles, Development, Power, Resolving Misidentifications
Tagged Development, Disruption
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Lights, Camera, Action…Action…Action…Action (ad Nauseum)
Having enjoyed writing the last three “Sufi stories”, I thought another might be in order. This one concerns the bias — ne’ the addiction — to action in our prevailing culture, both in our lives and at work. This addiction … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Power
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Three Sufi Stories Regarding Development
I once made up a “Sufi story” (a teaching story with a twist) in a conversation a number of years ago with a brilliant man and teacher who had two PhDs and had studied time for 50 years. My intent was to show … Continue reading
Posted in Contegrity Principles, Development, Right Gradient, Unfolding
Tagged Right Gradient
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