We don’t avoid conflicts – we avoid working through them!
How tempting it is to long only for spring, or summer: the days getting longer, the plants growing, Nature blossoming. So tempting that we often forget that there is only life in ecosystems because there is also death. Similarly, in the organisations where we work, it is tempting to focus on good relationships; to […]
Promoting inclusive leadership from recruitment onwards
Many organisations have been committed for years to promoting a culture of inclusiveness, which guarantees all people equality of treatment, rights and opportunities to belong. But how can we increase the chances that, from the moment they join the company, new people will be aligned with and contribute to this commitment? This is the question […]
Organisational Purpose: Starting with Why
Purpose is a powerful way of motivating people for action; of clarifying the ultimate goal your organisation is setting for itself, the primary “Why” that won’t change even if you might pivot several times on your “What“, and perhaps your “How“. In this short video, we bring together several approaches to Purpose-lead organisations, in order […]
What being Purpose-led really means
Over the past few years – and we should all be grateful for it! – there has been an ever stronger emphasis on becoming a Purpose-led organisation, and for leaders in those organisations to lead with/from purpose. Purpose: the new key to unlocking organisational performance? The rationale is simple: if you are clear […]
The link between risk aversion and the inner critic: self-sabotage in transformative decisions
Emma is an executive in a multinational company. She is 40 years old and her career path is built on a continuous series of successes, brilliant results, a very fast progression, until she was promoted to her last position, as marketing director of one of the company’s business units, a few months ago, crowning a […]
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 […]
Decision-making process : Nexus’ iterative model
Decision-making is not an instantaneous event, something that occurs only at the actual moment that the decision is being made. Rather, it sits within a process that includes the build-up to the decision, the decision itself, and then the impact of the decision itself. That process can be extremely quick (minutes, or even seconds), or […]
Idealization, death of idols, and rebirth: accompanying the regeneration of leaders and their organisations
The years I have spent coaching business leaders have often led me to the terrain of the shadows: that of our inconsistencies, our contradictions, our shortcomings; those aspects of ourselves that we prefer not to talk about, even to ourselves… Working with the shadows has allowed me to discover that there are generally 3 […]
Practical use of the model
The model, or Operating System is quite simple to use. In our experience we have found it is best implemented through a process modelled on the 3 phases of Otto Scharmer’s U-theory: First phase – Sensing This phase involves exploring past and present activities through the prism of this model, identifying what you […]
Principle #6: Develop collaborations
Principle #6: Develop collaborations, partnerships and symbiotic relationships. This principle, again, flows on from the previous principle, enabling you to scale up your regeneration by turning some of your life-giving encounters into more stable patterns of collaboration. In Nature, Life creates the conditions for more Life primarily through weaving complex patterns of symbiotic relationships, where […]
