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Redundancy and Resilience

Redundancy and Resilience

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...
Silos, fragility and Henry Ford’s surprising failure

Silos, fragility and Henry Ford’s surprising failure

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...
Connectivity and Resilience

Connectivity and Resilience

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...
Sources of Fragility

Sources of Fragility

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,...
Consciousness Matters in Change

Consciousness Matters in Change

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...
The Relationship between Culture and Change

The Relationship between Culture and Change

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...
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