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Reading List: Complexity Thinking
Every now and again we post some readings that we think are worthwhile in an area we focus on in our work. We value trans-disciplinary thinking and so some of the books or articles we post represent divergent ways of thinking about things. We think that’s useful.
Complexity Leadership (excerpt)
Complexity Leadership theory draws on ideas of shared, collective, distributed, relational, and adaptive leadership theories.
The Art of Listening
How you listen to others is always wrapped up in your natural bent to affirm, reject, or try and act to change what you are seeing or hearing in the world. Listening well is a practice of affirmation of the other person, and being open to being changed by the message they are giving.
The Horizons of a Good Question
Questions to which you already have an answer are processes not questions. One of the key competencies in leading in complexity is knowing when to work a process and when to move to inquiry.
An Innovative Systems Response to DV in Community
Equally Safe is a collaborative systems innovation.
The Leadership Circle Profile (TM)
The Leadership Circle Profile™ is a leadership assessment that measures and provides leaders feedback through the lens of the Universal Model. It is the only instrument that measures the two primary leadership domains – Creative Competencies and Reactive Tendencies – and integrates this information so that key opportunities for leadership development immediately rise to the surface.
Conversational Leadership
Conversational leadership is about leading in a way that treats “conversation as a core process to cultivate the collective intelligence needed” to create value. Conversational leadership is a way of approaching leading as an attentional practice that helps you focus on how you see, the way you hear others and the language you use.
3 Kinds of Change
There are different kinds of change. A simple way of looking at it would be to see that there are incremental changes, transitional changes, or transformative change.