Blog Posts
Crossing the Chasm Without Burning Out: Leadership in the New World
Leaders today are facing complexities that are unprecedented and unpredictable. Many of the leaders I work with are feeling overwhelmed and are at risk of burn-out as they constantly wrestle with the question, “How do I respond to what is being asked of me, when everything is constantly changing and the old ways of working are no longer working?”
Adaptive Organizations
A Deliberately Developmental Organization (DDO) creates the organizational conditions for the individual to overcome their own internal barriers to change, to take stock of and transcend their own blind spots and to see weaknesses and errors as prime opportunities for personal growth.
Adaptive organizations recognize that the challenges they are facing can be categorized into two distinct types: technical and adaptive challenges. Technical challenges can be overcome through the acquisition of new skills and technologies, while adaptive challenges demand a deeper transformation of individuals and the organization as a whole.
Adaptive Organizations address more complex, adaptive challenges that require shifts in mindsets, perceptions and behaviors. Adaptive challenges are mostly unconscious and become part of the invisible culture unless they are consciously brought to light and worked with through practices of reflection and self-awareness.
Podcast Interview: Leadermorphosis
Lisa Gill interviews Bernadette Wesley on Inner Development and Organizations: “Bridging Inner and Outer Transformation”
“Bernadette Wesley’s work is all about bridging the world of inner development with the world of being in an organisation together. We talk about Deliberately Developmental Organisations (DDOs); self-organisation and why changing structures is not enough; the Inner Development Goals (IDGs); and three practices that Bernadette has found particularly powerful: Peer Learning Spaces, Immunity to Change Maps, and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Tapping.”
Listen to the Interview
Sociocracy
Video
What is Sociocracy?
Book
Many Voices, One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy by: Ted Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez
Video
How to Implement “Rounds” in Meetings
Video
Quick Tips to Start Implementing Sociocracy
Video
How to Access Collective Wisdom
Immunity to Change™
Book
Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
Book
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey
Podcast
Brené Brown Podcast: Lisa Lahey uses the Immunity to Change™ process with Brené Brown. Brené describes her experience as she works through a very personal struggle in her work life that she has desperately wanted to change for years.