If you consider Information as the critical currency that needs to flow unimpeded within any team, then psychological safety is the lifeblood that transports this vital teaming nutrient. In teams or...
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Constraint-Led Approach (CLA) and the OODA Loop
I was introduced to Constraint-Led Approach a few weeks ago during the Navy’s Complexity Workshop. At the workshop, I was shown the book, Constraint-Led Approach: Principles for Sports Coaching and...
PLANks: A hands-on and fun Team Development Intervention approach that targets the leadership and teaming skills behind organizational resilience, safety, and agility. We call it PLANks because...
Gouge: Lexicon borrowed from fighter aviation used to describe the essential lessons, tricks of the trade, skinny or poop, or inside scoop on what really matters. If you had one page to show the...
“I think the next century will be the century of complexity.” -Stephen Hawking I’m happy to share that a grassroots effort to embrace complexity and complex adaptive systems thinking is underway...
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High-Performance Teams: What the Research Says
The Oxford Review recently published a special report on High-Performance Teams now available on oxford-review.com. From 8,100 peer reviewed research papers, Dr. David Wilkinson and his team...
From counter-terrorism to counter-errorism, the OODA loop and Cynefin framework are informing leaning-forward military strategists to safety analysts on how to navigate the complexity and...
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Evolving Naval Safety: An Apex Predator Approach
Naval aviators gathering this week in Reno, Nevada for the 2019 Hook Convention and the 50th anniversary of TOPGUN may learn a little about Apex Predators as a new way of thinking about safety. The...
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The Flow System™: A View on Team Science
“Many industry leaders found themselves in complex environments that had silently overwhelmed their traditional ways of operating. 20th century business practices that relied on process...
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Why “Flow” – The Flow System™
In the few weeks since Planet Lean published an introduction to the The Flow System™, responses from around the world have been extremely positive. As Nigel, John, and I continue to work on the...