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Archive for February 1st, 2004

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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