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 model of the 6 principles of regeneration: Principle #1
The model we present to you should be understood as a kind of “Operating System”: it consists of a set of principles that should guide every action, every initiative you want to undertake to bring regeneration into your organisation and your life; it provides a coherent framework, a map, that can help you navigate the […]
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 […]
Sunk cost bias: when persevering beyond a reasonable doubt turns out to be a bad idea
We are reading a book that we are not liking at all. But we paid 20 euros for it, so we decide to finish it, in spite of Pennac and the third of his list of reader’s rights which states “It is not necessary to finish a book”. We are not satisfied with our work, […]
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 […]
The 3Ds and the 3Cs of transformation
Over the last 18 months, we, at Nexus, have been working on a large scale organisational transformation project with an international organisation. We based our design on Otto Scharmer’s U process, which we have adapted, over years of practice. In our approach, we put a lot of emphasis on the Sensing phase, to ensure, […]
Should we wage war on climate?
The signs are there, hardly avoidable; it’s coming our way. Climate change is becoming obvious, its effects already bearing on us, and the science that already told us some decades ago about the phenomenon we are now experiencing is now telling us that we have only a few years to act (20 for the more […]
Generative Speaking: The other most powerful transformational behaviour
How can you “tell your truth”, whilst at the same time preserve the conditions for constructive dialogue and engagement at work? How do you manage to remain faithful to yourself – and what you think and feel – yet find a way of coming across that enhances collaboration rather than runs the risk of destroying […]
Generative Listening: the single most powerful transformational behaviour
Listening Though crucial for authentic Dialogue, true listening does not come naturally. It is an art that requires practice and a specific disposition, so that both speaker and listener connect in such a way that meaning can truly flow through them (as suggested by the Greek root of the word, dia-logos, “meaning flowing through”). And […]
