Inspired!

I have been inspired by Lilia Efimova and Viv McWaters to post more and to let go of at least some of my need to feel that what I have to say is clever and complete. To this end I am going to try to make this blog more of a learning journal and record of my continued exploration of a range of themes and questions. At the moment I’m exploring (in no particular order of significance) …

• What new tools and orientations we need to act in the midst of complexity when it is impossible to predict the outcome of our acting.
• What approaches and tools serve leaders and managers best and under what conditions.
• How conversation, story and narrative are the work and what that means for how we do leading, managing and organising.
• How we can become better prepared to engage in joint action when the opportunity arises.
• How our ways of thinking and acting can be transformed to be more expansive and better able to cope with complex and adaptive challenges and why this is neither clear nor easy.

I have a growing sense that many of the things that attract my attention are just alternative perspectives on a bigger question – trouble is I’m not sure what the bigger question is exactly. Or am I perhaps like the man with a hammer – seeing everything as a nail?