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 | Sep 15, 2022 | Latest Insights, Leading from the Roots
Last week I wrote about the interdependent relationship between culture and change to illustrate how our organizations should be viewed as systems, not machines. In a system, change works when a critical mass of people in a system can transcend the mindset of the...
by Dr. Kathleen Allen | Sep 8, 2022 | Latest Insights, Leading from the Roots
What if we thought of our organizations as machines? Machines work best when everything stays the same. For example, when our car doesn’t start in the morning, we understand that something needs to be fixed. We take it to the mechanic, and there they diagnose the...
