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12 enemies of adaptability

Via this posting I learned about 12 enemies of adaptability, i.e. 12 barriers that prevent organizations from being more adaptable: Enemy #1: Hierarchy Enemy #2: Fear Enemy #3: Decision bias Enemy #4: Habit Enemy #5: Centralization Enemy #6: Inflexible business Practices Enemy #7: Rigid structures Enemy #8: Skills deficit Enemy #9: Short-term thinking Enemy #10: Insufficient experimentation Enemy #11: Lack of diversity Enemy #12: Lack of purpose

How do you make decisions?

Via this post by Estelle Metayer I came across the 4 minute video embedded below with Henry Mintzberg. In the video, Mr. Mintzberg introduces 3 ways of making decisions: # 1: Thinking first First you diagnose, then you design, then you decide, then you act / do. # 2: Seeing first Once you have seen it, you decide. # 3: Doing first You act in order to think, as much as you think in order to act. In other words, if you are faced with a decision and don’t exactly know what to do, you try something. If what you do works, you do more of it. If it doesn’t work, you try something else.

Learning from birds

With a group of people of more or less all ages, I went out listening to birds last Sunday morning. Starting towards the end of Dorfgasse in Langenthal, Switzerland we passed through a forrest and went by a beautiful lake on the way. Listening consciously to birds for about 3½ hours was a new experience to me. Among things I learned were the following: Learning experience # 1 Around 5 o’clock on this Sunday morning, just at it started getting light, I heard most birds singing / whistling . It was quite amazing to experience that the bird concert got louder and more diverse, as it became lighter. Learning experience # 2 The variety of bird signals / calls / singing surprised me. In this regard, it also surprised me a lot to read that there are around 10,000 living bird species. Learning experience # 3 I learned that birds have a great sight and are also really good listeners. It struck me that we can learn a lot from birds when it comes to listening. In this regard, here are so...