A year to open new doors.
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journal, June...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 1 min
Thoughtful Urgency.
Acadia National Park in Maine and London, England provide me with a sense of belonging and connectedness for different reasons. London...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
What is your next?
Zoom. Vaccine. Next?" was the headline a few months ago in my last post. "Next" will be anything but a linear process. Our world has been...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
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Zoom. Vaccine. Next?
Adaptation. Like everyone, I have been living in a perpetual state of adaptation since the start of the pandemic. With each corner...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 1 min
New Year. New Narratives.
We seek and welcome new narratives this year. The heroic and innovative among us continue to work tirelessly in addressing the pressing...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
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Shaped by our common experience.
Isn't it our brokenness that connects us? Pause to connect. Power with vs. power over. These are headings from emails I sent last year,...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
A system cannot understand itself.
Inner journey, outer actions. Over the past several months I have periodically reflected on the impact the lessons of nature from...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 1 min
Era of emergence...or the way it was?
The way it was or will be? What impact will nature's current lessons have on the choices made going forward? As I see it, the choices...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
Now, tomorrow and the day after.
Nature continues to teach me. Nature continues to teach me every day, in the form of Covid-19. I sense I am not alone. The learning...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 1 min
Optics or Substance?
We live in a world often shaped by buzzwords, memes and clichés. Enterprise narratives are frequently crafted by such optics. Optics...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
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A year of attention — and action.
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 1 min
Nature has no status quo.
Recently I thought about a proposal I wrote for a company right out of college. It looked at the organization and its people as a...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 1 min
Hearing the forest through the trees.
Hushed silence. That is how I describe aspects of my hikes in Acadia National Park in Maine this past summer. Silence, I have discovered,...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
A New Story — Part 1
Blind men and the elephant The case for system thinking. Earlier this year, I brought attention to how silo thinking needs to give way to...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 1 min
Does your organization understand itself?
The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system cannot understand itself. ...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 1 min
See. Think. Do.
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. Alan Watts In my previous message, I...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
Responding or reacting?
Atlantic: of or relating to the nations that border the Atlantic Ocean; the Atlantic community. Global: of, relating to, or applying to a...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
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A pause to connect.
Throughout the living world, we find living systems nesting within other living systems. Fritjof Capra The Systems View of Life: A...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
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"Can do" or strategic leadership?
Like it or not, though, 'can-do' has got to take its place in the list of ‘emperor’s-new-clothes’ solutions. Rely on it as a strategy,...
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bradrendle
- Jul 16, 2022
- 1 min
Minefield or mindful organizational system?
...the decision to search for opportunities is an enterprising decision requiring entrepreneurial intuition and imagination and must...
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