Complicated To Complex dculberh.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/fro…

This (cognitive load) will become more and more important as all learners spend more time engaged in digital (immersive) environments… Leading In The Future: Cognitive Load Management dculberh.wordpress.com/2016/09/07/lea…

"Most organizational change failures are the result of some deep misunderstandings of who people are and what's going on in the organizations. If we can clear up these misunderstandings, effectiveness and hope can return to our work." -M.Wheatley

“Because of fear of failure, leaders stumble on issues of inclusion, belonging, and identity. Rather than being bold and adopting an experimental mindset, they’re falling back to familiar ways of operating and becoming less empathic to what others want” sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-fo…

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” The Transformative Power of Stories: Catalysts of and for Systems Change dculberh.wordpress.com/2023/10/22/the…

“The ability to plausibly forecast the future requires alternating between broad and narrow ways of thinking.” The Flare and Focus of Successful Futurists sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-fl…

“We often talk of “empowering people, but it’s a nebulous concept that’s difficult to define. What does that actually mean?” -Brene Brown via Dare to Lead

“This present moment used to be the unimaginable future.” Strategically Using Foresight To Audit Our Organizational Landscape dculberh.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/str…

Research of John Kotter shares that 70% of all major change efforts in organizations fail… Now couple that with, people have a tendency to only support what they create. And the majority of those change initiatives were created without their involvement or input. Hmmm…

“In the short term it’s relatively easy for leaders to stir up scarcity and promise to deliver more certainty with easy answers and a common enemy to blame. But in the face of complex problems, that certainty is quite literally impossible to fulfill” -Brene Brown via Dare to Lead

How are you shifting your mindset? How are you updating your mental models and maps?

All operating systems require updating… We can no longer approach the knowledge economy with industrial era leadership models that have outlasted their ability to benefit our organizations moving forward into greater levels of complexity and uncertainty.

Our mental models and maps don’t naturally update themselves, in fact, most often they’re looking for, while avoiding any disconfirming information or data, that confirms their existence and correctness. Updating our models and maps requires ongoing and intentional reflection.

“How do we create psychologically safe spaces where self-expansion and openness to experience can flourish, overcoming both fear and judgment?” Novelty: Moving Past Creative Complacency dculberh.wordpress.com/2022/06/29/nov…

You can’t look for certainty in the midst of complexity, as you won’t be able to find it… As we’ve come to understand, uncertainty and unpredictability pervades and can even overwhelm the complex challenges we face and the complex spaces we exist in.