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Learning About Leadership: Surprise, Agility and Collaboration

Learning About Leadership: Surprise, Agility and Collaboration

This had all of the markings of an impending disaster. The New Executive Coaching Summit (NECS) was scheduled to begin at what was supposed to be the “ending” days of the Covid-19 dominance. Yet, this ending was certainly not the state of affairs during the last week of April in 2022. Many senior level coaches who were planning to attend the in-person NECS either cancelled because of the virus or…

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Tending the Fires of 21st Century Organizations

Tending the Fires of 21st Century Organizations

[Photo Courtesy of G. Michael Smith: “First Encounter with Fire”] I have a confession to make.  I seem to be obsessed with fire. I love sitting in front of a fire in my living room. It has always been a requirement over many years that a home I purchase will have a living room fireplace. I have even built fireplaces in a dining room and bedroom that I have owned. I have also been fascinated with…

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The Assumptive Worlds of Psychopathy VII: Clinical Diagnosis and DSM

The Assumptive Worlds of Psychopathy VII: Clinical Diagnosis and DSM

In this, our sixth essay, we are arriving at the heart of the matter regarding contemporary perspectives on psychopathy. Here is where “the rubber hits the road”—for it impacts in a significant manner on the financing of mental health services in the United States and many other countries in the world. It is in the basic act of diagnosing and categorizing the psychopathy of a client seeking…

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Knowledge Worker Problem-Solving Approach

The goal of this series of posts about knowledge working and knowledge workers is to communicate an understanding of the demographic that most organizational learning and development efforts target: the knowledge workers (KWs) themselves. Last time, I explored “think work” as a component of “knowledge work,” and how “habits of emphasis” can lower the efficacy of KW problem-solving. Today, I’ll…

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...for storytelling is the mode of description best suited to transformation in new situations of action…. Stories are products of reflection, but we do not usually hold onto them long enough to make them objects of reflection in their own right…. When we get into the habit of recording our stories, we can look at them again, attending to the meanings we have build into them and attending, as well, to our strategies of narrative description.

Donald Schön (1988)

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Donald Schon

”El precticante reflexivo”

-un practicante que está constantemente saliendo del proceso práctico para mirarlo con más perspectiva.

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See also: Donald Schon, reflective-practice, Chris Argyris