Katie Boone is a colleague of mine who does system change work from her position as Innovation Manager at the Future Services Institute based in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. We were talking the other day about how intentional...
On June 25, 2020 I hosted a call with three colleagues as part of our Leading Through Disruption series. In these Zoom calls, we use nature’s adaptive cycle to frame the topics. With its 3.8-billion-year history of helping nature adapt to disruptions and change,...
I wrote this post initially a year ago, but as I look at the information constantly spraying across our monitors and smartphones all day, it’s important to remember that we are in the midst of creating a new narrative for ourselves, our communities and our...
Dr. Kathleen Allen asked me to write a second blog from just ten minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. As I wrote in my first piece, seven Bay Area counties were the first in the country to shelter in place beginning March 15th. As I write this new...
As disruptive events have unfolded around the world over the past few weeks and months – from the pandemic to recent protests – I’ve begun to draw even more direct comparisons to our current landscape and the way in which Nature breaks down structures and...
The pandemic, economic, health systems, civil unrest, exposed inequities, and the good and bad examples of leadership are swirling all around us now. How can we make meaning of the significant disruptions that are facing us now? Many of us are on this metaphorical...
There is a pattern to how new ideas come into a society We are living in a world where we experience multiple and often competing world views every day, and leadership assumptions about how the world works are behind every political or business strategy. Many of these...
While I will leave any deeper analysis for a later time, the protests in Minneapolis and around the country after the death of George Floyd are giving us feedback about our society. Frankly, we are at a point where we must bravely choose to adapt and co-create a new...
Our daily lives – work and personal – have been deeply disrupted and challenged in this experience of sheltering in place. In many ways, we will never return to the “old normal” – the “new normal” is taking shape day by day....
In the time of the pandemic, what are we finding out about ourselves? What are the lessons we’ve learned? My name is David Erskine and Dr. Kathleen Allen asked me to write a guest blog from just ten minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. As...
