Principle #5: Increase your interactions with people
Principle #5: Increase your interactions with people, organisations, experiences that are life-giving in your environment. Life, following principle #4, has begun to blossom, and from an individual and/or collective point of view you have moved from the prevalence of control, to trust in the process. Now is the time to connect with those people, organisations, […]
“There’s a crisis, let’s appoint a woman”: dynamics and pitfalls of the Glass Cliff
Suzanne is an executive at a large French company in the energy sector. She is told that she will be leading the digital transformation project, a key cross-cutting project that will involve the whole company over the coming months, a role for which she will report directly to the CEO. The project was led until […]
Principle #3: Reduce attacks on life
The previous two principles focused on what must die; on the other hand, there are also situations that are potentially life-giving, but where the life that wants to emerge risks being thwarted by various forms of attacks. These attacks can take the form of resistance to change, cynicism, power games, desires for control, turf wars, […]
The 6 principles of regeneration: Principle #2
Principle #2: Help what needs to die… to die and to “compost”, with the aim of fertilising and nourishing the Life that is to emerge. What kind of material are we talking about? For example, it could be past successes or failures, hopes or fears, a project you helped to realise and lead, a role […]
The Six Principles of Regeneration
“If we keep doing what we’ve always done, we’ll keep getting what we’ve always got”. This phrase has never been truer than at this moment, when most of us, in Europe and worldwide, are trying to get out of isolation and face the challenge of restarting our economies post-COVID. Restarting the old industrial machine […]
Leading Transformation: From a visionary leadership to a leadership of Co-Creation
I was in Rome the other day to facilitate a Leadership Training for the General Government of a religious congregation – the equivalent, in the religious world, of a CEO and his/her executive team. Their request sat within a broader intention: to lead the transformation of their organisation, made up of some 6000 priests missioned […]
Bernard Tapie, the collective imagination, and regeneration
In France, a remarkable man has just died. His name was Bernard Tapie. For decades, he marked the collective imagination of the French; loved or hated, he embodied for many of them the symbol of the ‘self-made man‘, the living example of the businessman who fights, who has the rage to win, and who succeeds […]
5 principles to regenerate: yourself, your team and your organisation
In many areas of organisational life, and beyond, we seem to be stuck, repeating patterns that do not produce situations that we desire. Yet many of us can feel inescapably caught in this pattern-repetition, helpless and powerless about the possibility of generating different experiences and outcomes. These experiences become manifest in a fractal way: […]
