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Are you the cause or affect of your current reality? |
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Organizational theorist Karl Weick coined the term "enactment". In a world where many individuals feel impoverished and organizations are threaten by lucrative markets drying up, what does that mean exactly?
"The environment that the organization worries about is put there by the organization", Weick claims. This is consistent with what social scientists and quantum physicists know to be true.
"There is no objective reality; the environment we experience does not exist "out there". It is co-created through our acts of observation, what we chose to notice and worry about" (Margaret Wheatley, 2006, p. 37).
Weick encourages us to move away from arguing about who's right and who's wrong, and instead to focus our concerns on issues of effectiveness, on reflective questions of what happened, and what actions might have served us better. We could stop arguing about truth and get on with figuring what works best (1979, 152, 168-69, as cited in Wheatley, 2006, p. 37).
In the Dreaming Room you will CREATE a new reality for yourself and your life. That is our promise. Come dream with me.
Tana
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Predictable Patterns at Work |
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Do you ever find yourself "behind a rock and a hard place" at work? Learn to recognize your predictable patterns today so you are empowered to interrupt them tomorrow.
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Cooking up Cultural Harmony |
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 After the successful launch of an interactive workshop for entrepreneurs called Cultivating a Culture of High Performance in Business a legacy of this work was created on YouTube. “FFTSeries” is a web TV series designed to inspire and empower business owners, human resource professionals and community leaders in cultivating high performance by fostering cultural harmony in the workplace.
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Creativity and innovation are critical to survival in today's global economy. Yet, the standard practices in business are precisely the OPPOSITE of what it takes to build an innovative, high performance culture. The old paradigm of business suggests we hire people that will fit in, explicitly define our expectations in policies and procedures manuals, train our staff extensively and work to instill our corporate philosophy in every new employee. As an entrepreneur that is precisely the kind of regimented environment that inspires me to "Run Forrest Run".
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Food for Thought