The Search For More

March 23, 2014March 22, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

Ever since I started using Yammer more than three years ago, I have had a new found appreciation for the power of the network. Previously, I hugged close my knowledge and kept tight my network of trust. No longer. I have nothing to hide any more. Share is the new Save, I wrote a year ago, and I have been spending huge amounts of my free time unlearning and relearning how to scale EVERYTHING accordingly. I have moved my primary learning environment from the yammer customer network – thousands of like-minded seekers of organizational scaling – to the Change Agents … Continue reading The Search For More

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There Are Change Agents, And There Are Change Agents. It’s #FutureOfWork Checklist Time! #CAWW

February 28, 2014February 26, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

Fellow CAWWer Catherine Shinners has a good review of recent thinking on what organizations need for breakthrough performance via the Conference Executive Board: read her article for some detail. I will suffice here with listing the CEB checklist of differentiating competencies for high performance: prioritization, teamwork, organizational awareness, problem solving, self-awareness, proactivity, influence, decision-making, learning agility and technical expertise. I like! All of these are in reach of all of us. Attitude, and forward momentum is all that is required to get us on this road… Shinners also shared a Future Work Skills 2020 study that sees successful trends to be: sense-making, … Continue reading There Are Change Agents, And There Are Change Agents. It’s #FutureOfWork Checklist Time! #CAWW

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#Unsquirrel 7: We Leave Home But We Never Really Move On.

February 24, 2014February 12, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

Speaking of travel, “As Freud saw it, we basically spend our lives unconsciously replaying a tired old script memorized in childhood through endless rehearsals with our parents and siblings. We leave home but we never really move on. We just take the show on the road, casting everyone we meet in supporting roles…” I ain’t no analyst, y’all, so I’ll stick to what I do know. I got stuck in my life. I have been down many a knowledge and skills cul-de-sac. I have rehashed my knowledge – and my issues and insecurities – in an endless series of screechy … Continue reading #Unsquirrel 7: We Leave Home But We Never Really Move On.

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#Unsquirrel 6: I Come Back Sounding Strange Even To Myself

February 21, 2014February 12, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

Travel remains a journey into whatever we can’t explain, or explain away…I know in my own case that a trip has really been successful if I come back sounding strange even to myself; if, in some sense, I never come back at all, but remain up at night unsettled by what I’ve seen. – Pico Iyer, “The Place Across The Mountains” in Sun After Dark. I am not sure of the ratio, but let’s say it is 1000:1. One thousand pieces of data and knowledge wash over me; but one of those pieces changes something. Maybe not everything – though … Continue reading #Unsquirrel 6: I Come Back Sounding Strange Even To Myself

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#Unsquirrel 5: Frivolity And Boredom

February 20, 2014February 12, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

The frivolity and boredom which unsettle the established order, the vague foreboding of something unknown, these are the heralds of approaching change – Hegel, preface to The Phenomenology of Mind. How many leaders have you met who laugh(ed) at the rise of social business over old-school-tie-who-you-know business, the power of networks over hierarchy? Do you, perchance, find them frivolous and bored, like the Court of Louis XVI? Off with their heads! ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading #Unsquirrel 5: Frivolity And Boredom

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#Unsquirrel 3: Morphing Is The Canadian M.O.

February 18, 2014February 12, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

“Canada is a land of multiple borderlines, psychic, social, and geographic. Canadians live at the interface where opposites clash. We have, therefore, no recognizable identity, and are suspicious of those who think they have.” – Marshall McLuhan Morphing is [Canada’s] modus operandi…states the anonymous article. Hear, hear. In an age of constant change, such a situation – perhaps, once, a weakness – is a +1. Those with an identifiable identity will increasingly scurry to update their status and bemoan the[ir] stupidity of youth. Newer nations, unencumbered by layer after layer of history – like Canada – will be ahead of … Continue reading #Unsquirrel 3: Morphing Is The Canadian M.O.

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On Fire: The Tom Peters School Of Schooling

January 31, 2014January 30, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

On fire! I have been closely following @tom_peters recently, and he is on fire. Super direct, brusque, angry, and optimistic. My favourite twitter operative at the moment. Example rant: Why the F do you need to “scale” something? Let’s start by makin’ the damn thing so great it makes you tingle? — Tom Peters (@tom_peters) January 30, 2014 Tweet after tweet after tweet. Visceral, schooling newbies hither and thither. It is an education to read. ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading On Fire: The Tom Peters School Of Schooling

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Embracing Complexity: Individuals

January 24, 2014January 5, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

Nilofer Merchant (in conversation with Carol Dweck) wants to challenge smart and talented leaders, those ‘in the know.’ Here are a few choice quotes: “[W]hat if you don’t [know]”? What changes? The things you know today are not enough. Facts change, new challenges arise, and so you can never think, “I know this” and call it done. The growth mindset then is about your ability to adapt to a world of changing circumstances. You have to be wedded to a definition of success that says we will figure it out, and keep figuring it out.” An embrace of complexity for leaders, … Continue reading Embracing Complexity: Individuals

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MOOC 1, University 0.

January 13, 2014January 3, 2014 ThisMuchWeKnow

I must be stupid. I have two degrees, yet I think education is completely overrated. I vowed after completing my Masters, ‘that’s it with studying!’ As my kids enter formal schooling, I am moving the other way – less structure, less rote, fewer rules of engagement, more serendipity, less linear, more networked, more curiosity, less right and wrong, more maybe and let’s see and who knows? The one-person university Maria Popova records Frank Lloyd Wright’s lament: “The present education system is the trampling of the herd.” Brain Pickings, she continued, “became the record of my alternative learning, of that cross-disciplinary curiosity that … Continue reading MOOC 1, University 0.

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TMWK Best Of 2013 1: Corporate Disorganizer

January 10, 2014December 30, 2013 ThisMuchWeKnow

This is the most viewed post of 2013: I Have Changed My Job Title To…Corporate Disorganizer.. It is an intriguing idea, one that has been woven through many posts on change management, organizational development, personal branding, career planning, and discussion on the future of work. I assume its popularity is due to its reference in many of these posts. Here’s to disorganizing some more in 2014! ←This Much We Know.→ Continue reading TMWK Best Of 2013 1: Corporate Disorganizer

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The Search For More

There Are Change Agents, And There Are Change Agents. It’s #FutureOfWork Checklist Time! #CAWW

#Unsquirrel 7: We Leave Home But We Never Really Move On.

#Unsquirrel 6: I Come Back Sounding Strange Even To Myself

#Unsquirrel 3: Morphing Is The Canadian M.O.

On Fire: The Tom Peters School Of Schooling

Embracing Complexity: Individuals

MOOC 1, University 0.

TMWK Best Of 2013 1: Corporate Disorganizer