
Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies and Symbols

These are what we call adaptive challenges, gaps generated by bold aspirations amid challenging realities. For these the world needs to build new ways of being and responding beyond the current repertoires of available know-how. What is needed from a leadership perspective are new forms of improvisational expertise, a kind of process expertise that
... See moreRonald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
when staff interact only professionally, the normative frame is cold, rational, transactional; when the targets are all about quantity, the culture is all about immediate return on investment. The dominant story is ritualised into the context of everything we do; and unless we consciously act to break it, it drags us back in.
Brian Eno • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
the lesson of this manifesto is simple: An organization of any size can effectively move forward by asking, “What do humans need?” What will create significance for those who interact with us?
Seth Godin • The Song of Significance
Ensure everyone has a voice (being heard creates buy-in) • Commit, especially when you utterly disagree • Confront the prima donna • Sharpen the team goal • Stop playing office politics and get behind decisions.