Image via Wikipedia this is a reflection on strategies of leadership under conditions of complexity Michelle: as your excellent posting on CAS notes, at certain degrees of complexity we have to adopt simpler and shorter term behaviors, and act with care and humility, measuring results and applying the feedback more rapidly in order to evolve […]
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leadership in complex adaptive systems
Image via Wikipedia This is a reflection on Heifetz’ model of Adaptive Leadership, a practical prescription from HBS on becoming an adaptive leader in uncertain times The Heifetz model of leadership adaptation requires an ability to develop a theory of action, rules of cause and effect that allow us to diagnose a situation and then […]
Leadership and charisma: what’s the relationship?
Image via Wikipedia a New York Times article examined charisma as a requirement for leadership and concluded it wasn’t an absolute necessity. Here are my reflections on that article: I found the article interesting, but it had a few anomalies that seemed odd to me. Just let me get those out of the way, as […]
The age of external knowledge: why know anything except how to search
Image via CrunchBase An interesting post on The Age of External Knowledge and the role of knowledge vs capacity to search. Very trusting of Google: too trusting? I think that more important than the facts-on-hand, are the questions-in-mind which condition us to be alert to the answers we need. if there is a limit on […]
A Systems and “sense-making” perspective on leadership
Image via Wikipedia when i hear technology, i think of the “means” of exercising control, authority, communication, and i remember how easily it has become an “end” in and of itself in practice technology has created at least as many new, unforeseen challenges as it has solved. it has been used as a crutch, it […]
Trader’s roundtable: correllation between ETFs
Image via Wikipedia In a recent discussion among traders, the idea of how to measure the correlation between various ETFs in the world market model arose. Here is my method: I set up a table, updated automatically daily iwant to compare the daily % gains and losses as the data points, then just pick the […]
Reflecting on Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions”
I am enjoying Dr Steven Goldman’s 24 lecture series from the Teaching Company on “Science Wars: What scientists know and how they know it” Lectures 16 thru 22 are directly related to Kuhn, does a great job of summarizing the context and subsequent interpretation of Kuhn’s work. Synopsis: Kuhn was a pro-science scientist, whose work […]
Complexity and planning for “endstates”
from a discussion on usefulness or not of the “end-state” concept and planning in general when faced with the challenges of nation building: Complexity theory says that complexity arises from a combination of 4 attributes: moderate to high levels of interdependence, connectedness, diversity and adaptation. Complex systems do not lend themselves to cause & effect […]
Leadership: Believing in others as a way of life
Leadership as a belief in others there are two models of leadership that I am directly familiar with. The first is the leadership quality model which treats leadership as a quality manifested by the leader, often composed of subordinate virtues like honesty, loyalty, competence, empathy. In this sense leadership could be considered a state of […]
Reflections on critiquing the writing of others
Giving feedback about the paper is a way to show who you are and how much you care about the author. Suppose, in your opinion, the author has made a glaring error in logic or has not supported the thesis, or mischaracterized an opposing view, and because you are concerned about hurting their feelings, you […]