What We're Thinking
Seeing the system sometimes means looking in the mirror.
Lately, our news in the US has been full of stories about young men who have committed crimes of horrific violence. Stabbings. Shootings. Bombings. Mass killings. Terrorism. Last week I came across this thoughtful analysis in The Washington Post: http://wapo.st/2dh48Ms
Though it feels good, simply punishing broken trust isn’t a full remedy.
Another black eye for the financial services industry last week. This time it was Wells Fargo, the largest US bank when measured by market valuation (over $250 billion). Though I expect that is going to change in the very near term.
These are exciting and encouraging times, if we can find the courage to allow them to be.
Almost since the time I entered the field of organization development I have been driven by the desire to help people bring more of who they are to the work they do. Nothing irks me more than hearing people talk about being one way at work and another way altogether when at home or with friends. Invariably, these people report that they leave some, often significant, part of themselves at the door when they enter the workplace.
How much are we missing out on and how much is lost because we don’t feel like we can be who we really are at work?
Fear is a signal you might be about to learn something
In an earlier post, I wrote about the connection between uncertainty and learning. There I tried to make the point that uncertainty is a condition that is pre-requisite to learning, and that the present moment is the most uncertain place we can inhabit because we never know what is going to happen next.
There is another aspect to uncertainty, one that has to do with our reaction when we find ourselves confronted by it.
