carynvanstone October 24th, 2007
Been developing the conversation with my client in New York - slowly but surely moving forward with the Appreciative Inquiry and Complexity thinking based project to develop a culture more conducive to innovation and high human engagement.
This organisation, like many others, has been implementing processes and policies for innovation, whilst maintaining their normal, rather risk averse approaches to the general day to day cultural experience. Following a number of teleconf calls, and more recently another meeting in New York in October, we have started to explore some new ideas about innovation and engagement.
The first connection we were drawing on, is the link that Barbara Fredrickson of the University of South Carolina makes between certain positive emotional states and the capacity and tendency to innovate.
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carynvanstone July 26th, 2007
Just getting back into things after a long holiday (without laptop!) and proof reading my chapter for a new book on Appreciative Inquiry due out this autumn. Co-written with Bruno Dalbiez from Nokia, it is the story of an AI Summit in Helsinki for work to revitalise the Nokia Values. Continue Reading »
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carynvanstone July 6th, 2007
The last couple of weeks have been a lively experience of speed and change - and how one can be the enemy of the other. I am often excited by the presence and need for speed, and at the same time, I often feel I (and clients I am working with) am disabled by such demands.
I am sat at a laptop in sunny California, in Mountain View to be precise. On holiday for a couple of weeks enjoying a break from both the grim British weather (which seems to be practically biblical at the moment!) and the demands of organisational life, and enjoying the slowing down. Continue Reading »
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carynvanstone June 18th, 2007
How exciting is this!! Joining the blog world!
The last few days have really highlighted to me how easy it is to fall victim to the very things that we, as consultants, often have to help others to face - like the prospect of just getting started on something… and learning as we go.
As someone who works from a complexity/emergence view of change I find myself advocating to leaders and other consultants that they have to learn through consciously aware, reflective experimentation. Yet it was over two years ago that Euan Semple first introduced me to blogging and the wiki-world of social networking, but I didn’t get into it.
I then tried again a few months ago, having met Esko Kilpi at a Social Networking Event with Nokia in Finland … and again… did nothing.
Finally, a good friend Richard Cussons and my brother Jamie Vanstone (FIRST4TECH) took me to task - and get me started. Now, having started, I realise that much of my reluctance to start is about my own desire to appear polished and competent - which means that I feel nervous about sharing my “learning and thinking out loud” in public.
But, it is for this reason that I am getting started - and this first step is just to say this out loud and then JUMP!
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