The golden thread running through the landmark theories of leadership, strategy, performance, innovation and organisational design for the last 20 to 30 years is the understanding of change and its relationship to the mind. Or, As Otto Scharmer puts it more succinctly, “The blind spot in business is not the WHAT, or the HOW, it’s […]

Ideas by definition are dangerous. And yet the process of business Innovation seems unable to deal with the fact that it is the way we think, our mental set, which determines whether creating new ideas gets a look in or not.
James M. Utterback (Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation) outlines that the success of radical innovation […]

Check out this article from fast company; it is about designing futures. It is about recognising that a forest fire starts with one match. Apply some passion, courage and determination and then ride the wave. For me this story typifies the movement from convergence to divergence, from frozen thinking to unfrozenmind.
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/100/inspiration-junkies.html

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A story is an idea in action.
“A key – perhaps the KEY – to leadership is the effective communication of a story.”
Howard Gardner Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership
“Only those who choose to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
Rob. F. Kennedy
“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty or security.”
Benjiman Franklin
“Cowardice asks the question, […]

“Reactive learning is governed by downloading habitual ways of thinking, of continuing to see the world within the familiar categories we are comfortable with. We discount interpretations and options for action that are different from those we know and trust. We act to defend our own interests. In reactive learning, our actions are actually reinforced […]

When they think they know the answers
People are difficult to guide
When they know that they don’t know
People can find their own way
Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching
The Unfrozenmind workshops and retreats are about discovering your beginner’s mind; this mind lies in the space between your habits of thinking, talking and acting. It requires real work […]