Tag: leadership
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Friday Reads: How to design a Sailing Ship for the 21st Century by Kris De Decker
For today’s Friday Reads, I decided to offer a close read of two significant lines that have been tumbling about in my head this week. One is from David Sloan Wilson and the other is from David Attenborough. I think these may have given me a new and simpler way to explain the benefits of…
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Friday Reads: Power to the Edge by David S. Alberts & Richard E. Hayes
In my work in the Agile business community, I have long been fascinated by the “hidden gem” nature of this report. Its findings support so many of the points Gavin Watson has been making in his Friday Reads series.
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Conscious Leadership Through the Lens of Two Simple Quotes
For today’s Friday Reads, I decided to offer a close read of two significant lines that have been tumbling about in my head this week. One is from David Sloan Wilson and the other is from David Attenborough. I think these may have given me a new and simpler way to explain the benefits of…
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Musings on Conscious Capitalism Strategy
Today I started a 12 month course on becoming certified as a Conscious Capitalism Consultant. As all good first days of a course should be, it provoked some new thinking for me. A question was raised. How do we as consultants expect to transform business into something more Conscious?
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Dr Dolittle and Kermit: A Conscious Capitalism Rainbow Connection
One of my favorite song lines is from the original Dr. Dolittle movie. Matthew is singing to young Master Stubbins, and one of the lines goes: “I know that what the Doctor tells me isn’t all together true, but I love every tale he tells me. I don’t know of any better ones, do you?”
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Gavin’s Friday Reads: How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
This was the most shocking thing I read in this book. I had to stop and read it again. Crocodiles swimming north of the arctic circle. The vision of crocodiles comfortably swimming where polar bears still do now was a shock to me.
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Gavin’s Friday Reads: Blueprint by Nicholas A. Christakis
Christakis is a sociologist at Yale and writes about how our genetic coding ensures the ways in which we tend towards social sameness. His argument is that our evolutionary success came about because we were predisposed to express particular qualities and behaviors in groups.
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Gavin’s Friday Reads: An Everyone Culture, by Robert Kagan & Lisa Laskow Lahey
Each of the companies has unique ways in which it goes about consciously and deliberately engendering the development of everyone who works there. Even the leaders are not exempt from the process they have set up.
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Gavin’s Friday Reads: 25 Quotes from Books I’ve Read
In a nutshell, the central concept is, “give people control over their own tasks, and they will enjoy and do them well.” In my experience at Watson Inc[link to company page]. and now in my consulting work at Watson & Associates, this truth gets revealed again and again.
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Gavin’s Friday Reads: Doughnut Economics By Kate Raworth
In a nutshell, the central concept is, “give people control over their own tasks, and they will enjoy and do them well.” In my experience at Watson Inc[link to company page]. and now in my consulting work at Watson & Associates, this truth gets revealed again and again.