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		<title>Leading &#8211; less like a speech, more like a conversation!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Bonser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been adopting, in my own thinking and in my work with clients, a much more contextualised, practice-focused approach to understanding leadership and management (and organising for that matter). In doing this I think I&#8217;m following in the &#8230; <a href="http://phillipbonser.com.au/leading-speech-conversation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Engaging the Other</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Bonser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Lesser talks about "Taking the 'Other' to Lunch" and offers some practical suggestions for how to engage with someone with whom you disagree. <a href="http://phillipbonser.com.au/engaging/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Organisational becoming and the “hurly burly” of everyday life.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Bonser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Poetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it pays to "turn things on their heads".

Here are a couple of examples that have struck me lately and as you will see they are not unrelated. They come from the world of philiosophy and the academic study of organisations so at the end I'll give you the specific references but I'm not interested in them so much from a theoretical as a practical point of view. The question is always, for me, not so much, "are things really this way?", as, "is it helpful to look at them as if they are?" and "what might that lead me to do differently?". <a href="http://phillipbonser.com.au/organisational-hurly-burly-everyday-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mid-week quote &#8211; Emergent Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Bonser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The one irrefutable truth is that in any large organization, any transformation that is to ‘stick’ must emerge from within. Those on the outside can strongly influence, particularly with their wallets. Those above are responsible for developing and articulating a &#8230; <a href="http://phillipbonser.com.au/mid-week-quote-emergent-change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking Up &#8216;Practical Engagement&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Bonser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming together is a beginning.  Keeping together is progress.  Working together is success. Henry Ford Life is a B Movie: it&#8217;s stupid and it&#8217;s strange, it&#8217;s a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the &#8216;he said she said&#8217; &#8230; <a href="http://phillipbonser.com.au/cooking-practical-engagement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Leading from the &#8220;radical centre&#8221;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Bonser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leading]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The highest ideals on earth are realised when leaders strive to secure them through close attention to reality. Lofty idealism without pragmatism is worthless. What is pragmatism without ideals? At best it is management, but not leadership.&#8221; Noel Pearson, 2010 &#8230; <a href="http://phillipbonser.com.au/leading-radical-centre/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why sticking your head out the window is a good thing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Bonser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Context]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog&#8217;s face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. Steve Bluestone I love this quote. Mostly because it &#8230; <a href="http://phillipbonser.com.au/sticking-head-window-good/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the &#8220;messiness&#8221; at the centre of the conversation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Bonser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Improvisation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I happened to come across this statement in an abstract for a conference paper: “… ‘messiness’ can be seen as problematic when viewed through the lens of more traditional governance processes. Looked at differently, however, it reveals a level &#8230; <a href="http://phillipbonser.com.au/putting-messiness-centre-conversation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Making It Up as We Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Bonser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the moment I am quite focused on questions of strategy. I&#8217;m doing some work that is right in the middle of trying to make one aspect of a particular inter-organisational strategy actually work. My task at the moment is &#8230; <a href="http://phillipbonser.com.au/making/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes of the Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phillip Bonser</dc:creator>
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