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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a leader outsources decisions to tools or teams, where is the line between smart delegation and losing yourself?”
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The Pathology of Ungrounded Development
One of the ways psychological development can become pathological is if the current primary level from which a person operates isn’t grounded in skillful integration of the previous level.... The Relateful Company should embrace more job titles
We’re under-appreciating orange. We’ve included the green critiques, like the classic: "What gets measured gets managed — even when it’s pointless to measure and manage it, and even if it harms the purpose of the organisation to do so" - V. F.... Deliberately Development Orgs are bullshit?
I expect others here read and were influenced by An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Kegan and Lahey? I remember first being introduced to it in a circling retreat probably 8 years ago or so.... - david...
There is still too much 1st tier hierarchy in Dalio's 2nd tier heterarchy, meaning that he is (or was) ultimately the King of Bridgewater such that the cult(ure) trended toward very clever yes-men sycophants organized in circles of gate keepers (this is my own guess, without... "You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything. 11 of them will work. Just pick one and do it.”
Dennis Hightower, who at the time was head of Disney International. He asked me why I wasn’t doing something, and I responded by explaining the pros and cons of two different ways of doing it. Thoughtfully, he replied “You know, there are 13 ways of doing anything.... AMA with Jordan Myska Allen
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What I’ve Learned in the Last Twenty‑Four Hours I’ve learned that clarity comes when I slow down enough to actually look at things instead of reacting to them. I’ve learned that truth doesn’t hide — it waits — and the real work is training my eyes to see it.... - JustJacki...
Absolute Power and its Relationship to Corruption
I love today's alchemy post: “When a leader profits hugely while in power, what would actually change your mind about whether that is a problem?” We're supposed to think on this together. My gut reaction is it would depend entirely on how that politician made that huge profit.... - nat...
in terms of leaning into disagreement—the secret service fucked up, but whether or not someone should be fired is super context dependent. I’m reminded of this classic story of the salesman who lost a million dollar deal at IBM, trying to resign, and his boss saying "Why would I... - josefine...
"I believe life is trustable and I wonder if I’ll be alive to see the good that will come from this huge swing.". This sentence moved me a lot and has been working in me since I read it last week.... - annabeth...
That said, gamechangers should be given reasonable space for imperfections. Often they're able to change the game because of their obsessive singlemindedness, which leaves gaping holes in other areas of life.... Feels like our closest examples to this in the past century, in the US President case, are JFK and George W Bush (a bit tongue in cheek for sure)? Or from a different angle one might say LBJ who fought his way up the ladder the hard way, his whole life...probably a number of... Being Out of Sync in a Group Meeting
I was just in a meeting that I was leading where, almost every time I spoke, someone else spoke at the same time. The other person would continue speaking and I would stop. It was as if my timing was wrong; I was out of sync with the group....