AIKSA: When it comes to AI, knowledge is omnipresent and skills are almost absent. There has never been a more definite time to hire for attitude than in this context. Attitude translates very definitely to openness, learning agility, coachability, and patience with uncertainty.

Excellence is inherently inefficient. For every increment beyond the basic, you have to work harder and harder. Do you let yourself, your team and your organisation be ‘inefficient’ to achieve excellence? Or innovation?

#innovation #excellence #productivity #management

Conversations are seldom difficult. Most are never decoded. Do you #prepareB4Upair for a #DiffCon (difficult or high-stakes conversation)? How?

#management #motivation #productivity

Meetings have a bad reputation because no one works on making them interesting, productive, and purposeful for everyone attending. Do you #prepareB4Upair for a meeting? How?

#culture #management #productivity

How much "white space" is there in your culture? White space in calendars can be a good indicator of that. Comfort with white space allows intrinsic motivation to flourish through autonomy. It feeds not just ownership, but also tinkering, exploration, and innovation.

#motivation

Type 2 deception: In ecosystems saturated with fakes, genuine products/people/conversations get perceived as fake. The system doesn't just reject the real—it becomes hostile to it. Cognitive dissonance kicks in, causing people to fortify their commitment to the fakes even harder.

Apex problem in leadership development: leaders who've never experienced "transformation" via developmental intervention can't relate to it, thus reflected in their reluctant support. When they provide sponsorship—not just money, but time & presence—it is Metamagical.

Best practices of a successful large company can be disastrous for a small start-up on the journey to scale. They may scar the culture for life and make it immune to those practices unless they are relevant and impactful at that lifecycle stage.

Be that as it may, the golden era of science—and scientists as poster boys holding the imagination of the elites—has given way to tech (techpreneurs, if you will!). Quite like the era of philosophy getting overtaken by the era of natural philosophy and eventually science. In crunched time. #PSTB

Immunity to change, for individuals and organisations alike, can result from a negative first exposure to some element of the overall change. It can even result from unpreparedness, which in turn could create a bad experience.

#immunitytochange #innovation #management #entrepreneurship

Philosophy is a close relative of mythology and metaphors, especially when seen from the historical perspective of natural philosophy and science evolving as a distinct worldview and systems. When a certain domain or landscape, say medicine, is taken over by science,

#PSTB

"Techniques, tools, and frameworks are all fine, but where is the time and bandwidth to implement them?" That is exactly where the second loop of learning and transformation comes in. That is exactly where learning and transformation are sustained or lost.

#doublelooplearning #metamagical

I need to get off the internet and start hanging out with chimps more

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