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New UTAU cover out today. UST by Partial (https://twitter.com/partialkakera)

This is the most production value I’ve ever put into a cover video lmaoooooo

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Happy New Year! In the tradition of my family, we celebrate with waffles!

This is technically the second UTAU cover I’ve posted, the first being Omae Wa Mou, but this is the first non-meme song Torbert has sang.

UST made by Jade Launders

[realtalk-tj]

does torbert still teach parallel

Response from Flitwick:

Yes!

[commonsandsystems]

Using Systems Thinking: Communication

For a small group of people trying to make change, working together well is crucial. Every group has to engage with the system that it is trying to change 

William Torbert talks about four “qualities of attention”: framing, illustrating, inquiring and advocating.  It can be very easy to find ourselves – particularly when trying to change things that we feel passionate about – in “advocating” mode a lot of the time.  While this is sometimes appropriate, it often puts the listener, whether that’s the rest of our group in a meeting, or a council officer, or someone in the wider community, on the back foot. It brings out people’s defensiveness.

Examples of uses of different qualities of attention:

Frame:

“from where we are standing, it looks like …”

“we are worried about this because of x and x effect

This is what I understand by xx – is that what you understand?

I am assuming xx – is that right?

Illustrate

“the effect of this cut will be xx

“the way this feels to me is xxx

“when you said that, I thought / felt…

“we think we could bring these two things together to do something better”

An example of this is xx

Inquire

“can you explain the context from your point of view?

“what are you hoping will happen?

“what would be the best outcome from your point of view?”

“what kind of help or support do you need?

“what would make the most difference right now?

“where’s the most pressure coming from from your point of view?”

Advocate

this will make things worse

this will make things better

that’s impossible

you’re wrong/ I’m right / we’re right

there’s only one way to do this

you just don’t understand  

Thinking about the quality of attention that we use as individuals can be helpful in helping the group work together. Thinking about the predominant way the group communicates with the rest of the system can help open up new avenues.

 Advocating may be exactly what you need to do in certain circumstances – campaigns, petitions, rallies. It definitely has its place. But if you are trying to move into taking some control, or into redefining some of the terms of debate, using some of the other modes of speech may be helpful. Or at the very least get you more information that you can use tactically.

Otto Scharmer’s “Theory U” provides some useful reflections on conversations and on listening. It is too complex to go into in detail here, but the basic premise is that to create new things we need to have “generative” conversations – conversations that generate things. To have these conversations we have to move beyond just talking at each other. We have to leave our baggage and preconceptions behind and be willing to open up to the person we’re talking to  - and be open to what they’re saying and feeling. This is hard and takes commitment but it’s where, so the theory goes, real change might come from. 

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If you are interested to explore another perspective on Leadership/Adult Development, this article is a great starting point.

Most developmental specialists agree that what differentiates leaders is not so much their philosophy of leadership, their personality, or their style of management. Rather, it’s their internal “action logic”—how they interpret their surroundings and react when their power or safety is challenged. Relatively few leaders, however, try to understand their own action logic, and fewer still have explored the possibility of changing it.

The Seven Action Logics: Opportunist, Diplomat, Expert, Achiever, Individualist, Strategist and Alchemist.  This paper explores the major characteristics, Strengths and Weaknesses of each of these 'Action Logics'

[johnmahaseth]

New Post has been published on US Top Searches

New Post has been published on http://sansarg.com/wp/2013/10/03/us-top/wende-torbert-from-the-pittsburgh-pirates/

Wende Torbert from the Pittsburgh Pirates

Some cool Pittsburgh Pirates images:

Wende Torbert from the Pittsburgh Pirates Image by PMAHCC

Pittsburgh Pirates | 4/3/13 Image by RJ Schmidt