“Schadenfreude: When the Banana Peel Is on Someone Else’s Floor and What Psychological Safety Has to Do with It”
Some time ago, I was looking for material to prepare a talk on the topic of being colleagues and psychological safety, and I came across this term, schadenfreude, which struck me, on the one hand because, with some embarrassment, I recognized some situations I had experienced in the past, and on the other because the […]
In teams as in chorus: singing with joy even when we make mistakes
«N’ayez pas peur de vous tromper, soyez à fond, prenez du plaisir… même si on se trompe l’important c’est d’être à fond ! Le public pardonne aux gens sympas, pas à ceux qui restent là paralysés sur scène.» ‘Don’t be afraid of making mistakes, give it all you’ve got, have fun… even if you make […]
Permaculture principle #6: Produce no waste
This is so simple in Nature! One of the many wonders of natural ecosystems is that they produce no waste. Only human systems do. In Nature, any output from one element is an input for another element. Ecosystems have grown through a principle quite central to the systemic paradigm of which they are such an […]
Owning our part: from denial-based business to a regenerative economy – Part 2
Purpose as a way of working through this splitting Figure 1, adapted from the work of the Grubb Institute1, can help us understand what is at work in Michael’s experience. In that framework, Michael (a Person) works in a pharmaceuticals organisation (a System) that has an impact in the world (the Context). Through his […]
From I to We: enabling a group to clarify its collective intention
If you’ve read other of our blog posts, you’ll have picked up by now that here, at Nexus, we use the U process to design pretty much all of our interventions. So I’m not going to go into details about the process itself; my purpose here is to describe a methodology I’ve been using at […]
