bradrendleJan 171 minA 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...
bradrendleOct 19, 20211 minThoughtful Urgency.Acadia National Park in Maine and London, England provide me with a sense of belonging and connectedness for different reasons. London...
bradrendleJul 10, 20212 minWhat 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...
bradrendleMay 12, 20211 minZoom. Vaccine. Next?Adaptation. Like everyone, I have been living in a perpetual state of adaptation since the start of the pandemic. With each corner...
bradrendleMay 12, 20211 minNew 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...
bradrendleMay 12, 20211 minShaped 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,...
bradrendleMay 12, 20212 minA 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...
bradrendleMay 12, 20211 minEra 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...
bradrendleMay 12, 20212 minNow, 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...
bradrendleMay 12, 20211 minOptics or Substance?We live in a world often shaped by buzzwords, memes and clichés. Enterprise narratives are frequently crafted by such optics. Optics...
bradrendleMay 12, 20211 minA 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...
bradrendleMay 12, 20211 minNature 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...
bradrendleMay 12, 20211 minHearing 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,...
bradrendleMay 12, 20212 minA New Story — Part 1Blind men and the elephant The case for system thinking. Earlier this year, I brought attention to how silo thinking needs to give way to...
bradrendleMay 12, 20211 minDoes your organization understand itself?The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system cannot understand itself. ...
bradrendleMay 12, 20211 minSee. 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...
bradrendleMay 12, 20212 minResponding 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...
bradrendleMay 12, 20211 minA pause to connect. Throughout the living world, we find living systems nesting within other living systems. Fritjof Capra The Systems View of Life: A...
bradrendleMay 12, 20212 min"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,...
bradrendleMay 12, 20211 minMinefield or mindful organizational system?...the decision to search for opportunities is an enterprising decision requiring entrepreneurial intuition and imagination and must...