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Transformational Change requires Personal Transformation

Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 29th, 2004 No Comments »

There is a really interesting book by Robert E. Quinn, Deep Change. Figure 14.1 on page 123 is very interesting. Read the book to see Quinn's insights on these three paradigms. It sure puts a lot of things into understandable context. The bold highlights are mine.

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Three Paradigms of Organizational Life:
Technical paradigm
Transactional paradigm
Transformational [...]

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Trust as a Verb and Insecurity as a Good Thing

Posted in Cooperation in Health Care, Information Flow, Organizational Development, Systems, CAS, Transformation, Transparency on Feb 1st, 2004 No Comments »

Building Trust, by Flores and Solomon is a really good book. I rank it with The Wisdom of Insecurity, by Alan Watts as two of the most mind altering books I have read. Watts turned the conventional wisdom of insecurity on it's head, essentially showing that security or fixedness is closer to death and that insecurity [...]

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Clear Leadership

Posted in Cooperation in Health Care, K, Organizational Development, Transformation, Transparency on Feb 1st, 2004 No Comments »

A friend of mine, Gervase Bushe, wrote a very useful book: Clear Leadership. The insights and framework are based upon his career as a professor and business consultant
Clear Leadership is full of practical and immediately useful mental models and advice. Organizations are beginning to use it as a framework for leadership training at all levels.
After reading this book, I [...]

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Which side of the bed?

Posted in Cooperation in Health Care, Organizational Development, Transformation on Feb 1st, 2004 No Comments »

 
I have gradually come to realize that I unconsciously make a binary choice each time I think or act. I get out of my bed either on the defensive side or the learning side.
I either start my day holding on to… you name it. Or, I start my day open, willing and interested in [...]

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