by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Mar 24, 2023 | Latest Insights, Leading from the Roots
A major indicator that you are leading a resilient organization is that you know and create redundancy in critical areas of your organization. Critical redundancies can and should exist in your operation’s machinery, knowledge, and skills. While the ideas of...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Mar 16, 2023 | Latest Insights, Leading from the Roots
Last week I wrote about connectivity as a key contributor to strengthening resilience in a living system. When our organizational systems are interconnected and connected to their external environment, they are more adaptive, innovative, and evolving. These behaviors...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Mar 10, 2023 | Latest Insights, Leading from the Roots
Another principle of resilient systems is connectivity, the state of being interconnected. Resilient systems flow. If we wanted to understand a resilient system, we would look for a few things: The patterns the system creates. How the system flows between its...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Feb 24, 2023 | Latest Insights, Leading from the Roots
Last week I started writing about resilience and how learning helps systems and individuals strengthen their resilience. We carry a lot of unexamined assumptions about how to lead organizations. Sometimes these assumptions actually make our systems less resilient,...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Feb 17, 2023 | Latest Insights
Resilience systems are highly attuned to learning. In nature, species and ecosystems evolve with information and feedback. In human organizations and communities, resilience is linked to their ability to seek out information, curate it, and make meaning out of...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Feb 10, 2023 | Latest Insights
I have been reading the resilience literature to create a simple framework that would be easy to grasp while providing a directional heading for our organizations and ourselves. This is the first of a series of blogs that reflect this theme — building resilience...
