Findings:
“We have no time to stop and pause”
The loops of action generating actions, which in return generate additional action, heighten the risks of breathless momentum. Organizations end up draining both
growth and renewal dynamics, and individuals burn out.
Findings:
“I sometimes feel like suffocating, trapped by my own achievements. There seems to be no space for my needs and ideas”
Short termism and the quest for immediate performance encourage to grasp all immediately available resources, in copy-paste, when not cloning modes,
anaesthetizing or destroying potentials.
Findings:
"Processes have replaced reasoning. Checklists, KPIs and numbers have overtaken the importance of meaning"
The lack of tangible sense, the oversimplification of governance criteria, the focus on short term results and measures, have all increased the importance of immediacy,
and given far to much value for instantaneousness, at the expense of the notion of the story in which they fit in. There can be no sense-making in the ephemeral.
Findings:
“Decisions and solutions here seem to come out of thin air. One cannot help wondering if leaders talk to each other, work together or are aware of existing commitments and realities.”
Actors seem to be trapped in silos, with little if no consultative or collaborative framework.
Too often, decisions and initiatives end up being disconnected from each other. At best they coexist, when they do not nullify each other.
There can be no travel without stops. Stopovers are essential steps of any successful journey
- Taking the time, individually and collectively, to land and pause
- Building breathing and oxygenation spaces, to resource and refocus
- Resetting where necessary
- Redesigning oneself within a broader time frame, conducting life/professional/work reviews, to find and build insightful perspectives to existing and future achievements
- Rising up and outlining the progress made along a journey, to learn and define next steps
In a global, complex and expanding reality, new futures will emerge if the diversity of resources, dreams and potentials are revealed and unleashed.
- Recycling those former projects holding back, to envision different future self projection
- Wakening up and releasing potentials
- Unlocking individual and team dreams, aspirations and ambitions
- Activating one’s motivational drivers
Creating, giving and making sense to actions, to projects, to individual and collective dynamics, are essential transformation levers
- Placing choices and actions within an ethical and value based frame of reference, considering the “for what”
- Clarifying the Go-No-Go criteria, to avoid per default choices, with strong clarity regarding what to stand for
- Creating, embodying and carrying on a vision
- Reinventing and writing the future collective script
- Reengineering and aligning governance, processes & work practices to nurture the fulfillment of a collective story
Being connected with, seeking to link up with -
Connecting needs, worlds, possibilities, opportunities, in order to meet a more comprehensive and richer reality
- Identifying, understanding and articulating the variety of roles
- Building common threads leading choices and actions
- Articulating short & long term, past/present and future
- Connecting and linking people & networks
- Articulating various stakeholders & workforces to joint vision implementation
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