Tag: Complexity

Why Ideas Are Not Enough

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘We can create new realities for ourselves, but only when we let go of the ideas that we’re uniquely defective.’

‘Many of us have poor team alignment not because the people on our team are in conflict but because we’re not communicating to our team what we want, need, and dream to be.’

‘The more an idea matters to you, the more you’ll thrash, precisely because its success or failure is deeply important to you.’

‘Not doing your best work leads to creative constipation- at a certain point, you’re too toxic to take new ideas in because you’re not getting them out.’

‘The nature of our best work is that we’re never done, and many of us create work and projects that carry on even after our death. The finish of one project is just the start of many others.’

‘You have to let go of projects and ideas that aren’t allowing you to thrive so you can trade up to the projects that do.’

‘If a project doesn’t have start and completion dates, it’s not likely that it’s going to get done.’

‘It’s easy to see what led to the big win when you have been celebrating and keeping up with all the small wins along the way.’

‘People, in handling affairs,

Often come close to completion and fail

If they are as careful in the end as the beginning

Then they would have no failure.’

‘The more it matters to you, the greater the need for downtime and transition time after finishing your project.’

‘Every best-work project you finish leaves more of your fingerprints on the universe.’

Source:

Charlie Gilkey (2019). Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done

‘How To Make Complexity An Advantage’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Change and stability can work together. As a leader, it is your job to make it work.

‘First learn to play around with and balance your own personal polarities before focusing on the polarities around you and in your organization.’

‘Whatever choice you make when coping with a polarity, remember to be observant, choose consciously, and be aware of what effects may be.’

‘Don’t be tempted to go directly for a compromise or synthesis. Have the courage to explore both poles in their extreme and purest forms.’

‘We are not capable of managing and balancing at will all polarities within ourselves, but what we can do is consciously observe and understand what is happening inside of us from the position of a neutral observer.’

‘Make explicit both your personal polarities and those of your organization and open up dialogue.’

‘People best learn to effectively work with polarities in their daily work practice, stimulated by examples, dialogue, and dedicated space and time.’

‘Make sure that all structures remain flexible and do not become rigid. Make silo formation a standard agenda item.’

‘Always link the individual parts of the organization to the organization as a whole. Ensure that there is a good balance between departmental goals and organizational goals.’

‘Establish and maintain an ongoing qualitative exchange and dialogue process about nonmeasurable goals.’

‘Don’t throw away everything old to replace it with something new but enrich the old with the new.’

‘Every movement evokes its countermovement.’

Source:

Ivo Brughmans (2023). Paradoxical Leadership: How to Make Complexity an Advantage