Masterclasses

Red line thinking runs the existing system faster, leaner, harder. It is characterised by linear improvement. Blue line thinking changes the system and its environment. It is characterised by exponential shifts in performance. If you cannot make the Threshold Step from red line to blue line, you burn out the organisation. Chasing linear improvement in an exponentially changing environment is a guarantee of failure. Learn what is needed in your leadership to take the Threshold Step.

Patterns of activity arise over time as a helpful way of navigating complexity. They can become so deeply ingrained that we hardly notice them. As the world around us changes their utility may diminish and they can become limiting. Learning how to identify limiting organisational patterns and how to architect interventions that might shift them is a critical skill for the transformational leader. Explore simple approaches to doing this and the leadership needed to make these successful.

Changing thinking changes doing. The organisation as a machine was the metaphor for 20thC management thinking and it is still pervasive. In the 21stC the ecosystem is the meaningful metaphor that opens exponential shifts in performance. Yet embracing what this means is rarely understood well if at all.  Dive into the essential paradoxes of a dynamic environment to find the balances, amplifiers and power needed to grow a new organisation for a new world.

So much of business and personal development is focused inwards, intended to deepen our understanding of ourselves and our organisations. But neither can be understood separately from their environments. The dynamic interaction between a business and its operating environment holds the key to fundamentally shifting performance. Finding the right dynamic balance takes enquiry, asking the sort of questions that open our minds to new possibilities. Expand your capability to do this by identifying the characteristics of breakthrough questions.