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November 16: Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity with Peggy Holman (bio) Consultant and Author
Change is everywhere these days, so much so that it can seem like barely-controlled chaos. As a result, increasing numbers of leaders, managers, workers and change agents feel overwhelmed. Some see too many choices, while others see no choices at all. But sometimes within this seeming chaos are the seeds of a higher order. Science calls the process of a new system arising from the ashes of the old emergence. Understanding the phenomenon of emergence can help leaders to gracefully and successfully cope with change and emerge stronger and more purposeful. In her profound and insightful book, Peggy offers new ways to think about the potential upheaval contains as a source of emergent change and shows how to engage it productively. This is is an art more than a science, so Holman offers practices that tell you not precisely what to do but rather how to approach disruptive situations–what to notice, what to explore, what to try, what mindset will leave you most open to identifying the new paradigm as it emerges. She grounds these practices in five overarching principles that apply the scientific understanding of emergence in the natural world to social and organizational change processes. Real-world stories of collapse and renewal serve to illustrate these principles and practices in action. And Holman outlines three questions to help you work compassionately, creatively and wisely with the entire arc of the change process, from coherence to disruption to renewal. This work can be difficult—the end is rarely in sight and the
outcome is often uncertain. But it can also be tremendously exciting.
Our survival in an increasingly unpredictable world is at stake, and
working consciously with emergence is a promising pathway to doing
something about it.
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December 14: Visual Leadership: The Importance of Listening with David Sibbet President and founder of The Grove Consultants International and author of the new book, Visual Meetings: How Graphics, Sticky Notes and Idea Mapping Can Transform Group Productivity
Visualization is a power tool for leadership that creates a new language for process. David, longtime TLG Member and community participant, is a pioneer and world leader in the area of graphic facilitation and visual thinking. "When I set out on this path years ago, I thought of process leadership and group graphics as a performance art very much like music. I’ve even called it 'conceptual jazz.'”
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