I have been reflecting on two quotations for a few weeks now: First, Bill O’Brien’s “The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener.” And Carl Jung’s “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will...
Our commitment to not mowing our lawn until the end of May has thrown us into a curious leadership conflict: we want to provide dandelions for wild bees whilst also trying to fit into our neighbourhood. We’ve found that our inner process and our actions in this...
A man wants to hang a painting. He has the nail, but not the hammer. It occurs to him to go over to the neighbour and borrow his hammer.But then a little voice whispers in the back of your head: “What if he doesn’t want to lend me the hammer? Yesterday, he barely...
We often frame reactive behaviour in an individual context, but what does it look like in the context of a team, division or organization? As Bill Anderson puts it, reactive tendencies emphasise “caution over creating results, self-protection over productive...
“Wind responsible for 51% of State’s electricity last month” trumpeted a headline in yesterday's Irish Times. A few clicks later and I found myself on the McKinsey 5-50 blog where I saw some numbers which dampened my earlier excitement: 56% of American...
Hot mess reactiveness, decisions and choices, chocolate and vanilla ice cream, managers and leaders. Throw in trying to order some dinner, a bit of football and a friend of mine, and there’s a lesson in leadership in there somewhere.
Leadership is not so much about staying creative. It really is more about recovering to creativity, now, … and now, … and now. As we are creating a workshop for a larger organisation, we are looking into creative and reactive tendencies and how they make or break our leadership in any given moment.
But why are we reactive in the first place? We’ve written about this before, and usually, this is where we speak to the patterns we’ve acquired in childhood. Today we want to look at this from a different perspective:
Your values shape …
“But what does ‘reactive’ look and sound like in practice? And does it really matter?” It is often the case that Reactive Tendencies become even more pronounced when the stakes are higher and when…