Principle: Balcony and Dancefloor — Lizard Brain
Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals
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Your goal should be to keep the temperature within what we call the productive zone of disequilibrium (PZD): enough heat generated by your intervention to gain attention, engagement, and forward motion, but not so much that the organization (or your part of it) explodes.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
- Figure out the group’s default interpretations. If it is not obvious, get on the balcony and track the group’s responses to several different problems, looking for patterns.
Ronald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
I find that in life – and certainly in business – people vacillate between two poles – two ends of a line – on one side there’s collapse and on the other side there’s posturing.