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Leadership Commitment #2

Posted on | February 8, 2013 | No Comments

Leadership Commitment #2 If the organization is a top-down, command and control organization, (and more are than will admit) strategies may be created by a leader alone, or in conjunction with an expert faciltator or consultant outsider. This change plan will be from a limited perspective of one or more people at the top. They may or may not have actual experience at various levels of the organization. Add this to a generalized but patterned-focused view of the expert consultant. He or she does not work within this organization at great depth or for long periods of time but brings a hoped-for fresh perspective that works with a system lens. The leader must commit to critique and input by the rank and file, otherwise there will be a lack of buy-in from those expected to implement these changes.

Patterns, Google Images, 2013

Shawn Nichols Shawnnichols.com
Category: Working Environment Concerns
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If All You Ever Get, Is All You Have Right Now….

Posted on | February 3, 2013 | No Comments

If All You Ever Get, Is All You Have Right Now....Would That Be Enough? Imagine your day-to-day struggle is over though you will continue to learn, share, and laugh. Would that be enough?   We are taught to value success, individuality, and achievement but what if we had come to a plateau? This plane stretches for as far as we can see and no obstacle appears too large or impossible. The limits of our lives have been met and we remain as we are. Can we imagine that and could we accept that?  

Google Images, 2013

Shawn M. Nichols Shawnnichols.com
Category: Religious and Spiritual

Incongruent Values Cannot Be Paid Off

Posted on | February 3, 2013 | No Comments

Incongruent Values Cannot Be Paid Off Higher salaries and hygiene benefits may initially engage and then enforce some level of cooperation, yet something is missing for the individual. Our personal meaning, that is our values and beliefs, start to become incoherent when we try to align them with an unfamiliar or uncomfortable ideology. In an organization where functions are set and repetitive, and change is directed by a chosen few, the incoherence increases.

Google Images, 2013

 Shawn M. Nichols Shawnnichols.com
Category: Religious and Spiritual

In innovation, it is the outliers who create and conformists who do not see without struggle.

Posted on | January 30, 2013 | No Comments

In the realm of innovation, it is the outliers who create, and conformists who do not see without struggle. There is room for all. The Big Short by Michael Lewis (Norton, 2010). Michael Lewis on The Big Short Michael Lewis’ well-told story about the subprime mortgage debacle is not only a classy whodunit with rich well-drawn characterizations but also a great psychological study. Lewis has the ability to simplify the financial-instruments-of-mass-destruction for everyone’s reading and for myself, a former investment dealer/creator (real estate) evoke an air of profound déjà vu including the smell of coffee and fear. On the psychological side, what I believe Lewis does so well is show that those who can spot anomalies, come to understand them, and use them are better off than those who merely wring their hands and preach. The ability to see aberrations in patterns of all kinds has been viewed as a problem in a child’s development by those who do not understand the talents hidden there.  As a society we generally view non-conformity as an issue, yet state we value individualism. We can have it both ways and in the realm of innovation, it is the outliers who create, and conformists who do not see without struggle. There is room for all. Shawn M. Nichols Shawnnichols.com
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