Partnership & Possibilities

Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations EPISODE 2: AN INQUIRY INTO QUESTIONS “Leadership really comes from the nature of the questions you ask rather than the statements that you make.” Running time 32:54 What questions have been particularly powerful for you? What questions have you asked or have been asked that have [...]

Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations EPISODE 9: SIMPLE RULES “One of the guiding thoughts about simple rules is that not only are they pretty short and action oriented by starting with a verb, but they are also generalizable and scalable so that they can help you in many different kinds of [...]

Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations EPISODE 8: THE COMPLEXITY OF CHANGE “How can a leader be an innovator or expect innovation in their own organization if they’re not willing to experiment with the idea of innovation about what leadership is and how you do it?” Running time 29:00 How is leadership [...]

Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations EPISODE 7: Our Changing Views of Change “To really accept that the world and change are emergent is to accept a kind of stance that says ‘I really can’t know the future and I really can’t do a whole lot to prepare for it’ and that [...]

Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations EPISODE 4: MISSING THE MARK “If we admit that we can continually improve, we somehow think we’re admitting we’re not enough right now. And I don’t think of it that way, I think we are doing the best we can right now, and we can identify [...]

Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations EPISODE 9: POWER AND POLITICS “Politics is really how we get things done – it’s the networks, it’s the interactions, it’s who talks to who, who influences who.” Running time 31:06 What kinds of power and politics have you seen in your organization? Have you seen [...]

Partnership & Possibilities: A Podcast on Leadership in Organizations EPISODE 7: THE PERSUASIVE LEADER “Effective persuasion becomes a negotiating and learning process through which a persuader leads colleagues to a problem’s shared solution” – Jay A. Conger, PhD, Professor and Author Running time 28:03 Have you experienced persuasive leadership? How does the discussion on persuasion [...]

EPISODE 6: POWER AND INFLUENCE IN ORGANIZATIONS “Our influence is a source of power; the way we influence is unique to each of us.” Running time 30:38 What is your unique source of influence and how are you using it in your organization? When have you needed to reach out and tap someone else’s style [...]

Diana has written previously about the Human Systems Dynamics Institute and their excellent program that provides models and methods for dealing with our VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world of complex adaptive human systems. In this post she focuses on the HSD Adaptive Action model and its unexpected connection to retrospectives: In 2006 Esther and [...]