Category Archives: Development

All Issues are Time Issues

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Ken Anbender

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 →

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Basics of a Developmental Partnership

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Ken Anbender

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 →

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Solve the Simple, Transition the Complex

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Ken Anbender

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 →

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Sufi Story — The Storied Illusion of a Path

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Ken Anbender

There was once a person who was so very willing to learn. They felt sure that this willingness to learn would be sufficient to making their way through life. In fact, their willingness to learn was so strong, that its very … Continue reading →

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Always and Only One Developmental Theme Up

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Ken Anbender

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 →

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Appropriate Response to Well-Timed Disruption — Thank You

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Ken Anbender

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 →

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Lights, Camera, Action…Action…Action…Action (ad Nauseum)

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Ken Anbender

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 →

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Three Sufi Stories Regarding Development

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Ken Anbender

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 →

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The Three Perspectives (Learning, Training, and Development) and Their Different Worldviews

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Ken Anbender

[Please note that this post is longer than normal given that it addresses and compares three viewpoints. I am posting it as one integrated conversation given that it culminates in the third part. You might want to read it a … Continue reading →

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