“If we let them, the decisions we made yesterday will determine what is possible tomorrow.” A Beautiful Constraint: Adam Morgan & Mark Barden
Leaders are under seemingly ever-increasing pressure to do more with less. To innovate and grow while balancing short-term exigencies to stay vital and perform. It can feel like you are flying the plane while rebuilding it. The silver lining is that these are the conditions where humans often perform best - to overcome constraints when free to act instinctively.
The paradigm shift is to let go of industrial era rules and the urge to contain and control until conditions are stable and adopt dynamic models that allow people to act intuitively, to ideate and use collective capacities to iterate and reinvent.
The organisational shift is to move from rigid hierarchies and silo'd structures to adaptable and interconnected models that allow people to flow to where the work gets done taking skills, tacit knowledge, perspective and insight with them.
The leadership shift is to expand perspective and, aligned to a greater good, to focus on proactively shaping the dynamics to navigate change, and harness and harmonize effort to seize opportunities to transform and reinvent.
The shift in self is the reinvention of oneself into the next best version of 'you'. One that embraces all the senses and intelligences of the mind, body, heart and soul, innate and learned talents and self-responsibility as a life-long learner to align and engage to the greater good and share and teach others.
I am a sense-maker and transformation catalyst who works with leaders and their teams to create the conditions for success. Modern environments that transform the way people work.
I am an architect of business ecosystems that work at all levels to push beyond the paradigms and rigid patterns that no longer serve today's conditions. Modern work environments need to connect purpose, people and performance and expand perspective across interconnected dimensions and understand the dynamics at play. This state of awareness grows human intelligence to turn constraints into opportunities to innovate, ideate and reinvent new possibilities for action.
