Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott J. Allen, Ph.D. Dave Snowden & Mary Boone - Bramble Bushes in a Thicket
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Feb 22, 2021 Leaders in the business world need to embrace complexity and paradox, understanding when to share power or wield it alone. Dave Snowden and Mary Boone discuss the Knevin framework for decision-making in social systems. They explore topics like rethinking government, mapping culture, and conflict resolution. Their perspectives also touch on crisis management, health, religion, and climate warming.
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Cynefin Explains Which Leadership Mode Fits Which Context
- The Cynefin framework distinguishes clear, complicated, complex, chaotic, and confused contexts to match decision approaches to system type.
- Dave Snowden compares ordered, complex, and chaotic systems to solid, liquid, and gas and highlights entanglement in complex systems like "bramble bushes in a thicket."
Why Old Leadership Models Fail In Complexity
- Traditional leadership models were developed for ordered environments and fail in today's complex, uncertain situations.
- Mary Boone says most current problems are complex and leaders must adopt different approaches rather than rely on past tactics.
Design Leader Programs To Rewire Connectivity
- Focus on changing connectivity in organizations rather than listing leader competencies or profiling individuals.
- Snowden recommends exercises that constantly vary leaders' connections and encourage narrative reflection shared with peers.