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Any idea of finding solutions for systemic issues is misleading. Systemic issues lose traceability between causes and effects – so, approaching them with a solution mindset is itself a problem.
What’s needed is an intervention mindset and approach. Dame Maggie Smith once put it, “there’s no beginning and no end, only points where you enter and leave the story.” [1]
How do we know if life’s story (for the planet and/or our people) is better for our intervention?
All normal tensions remain in a mess of systemic issues: between short-term and long-term, profit and investment, and managing the parts and the whole.
Intervening in a mess of systemic issues depends on how we conceive, contribute and count value. And, how we use value as an centreline for intervention.
In our next webinar on This Century Thinking we will explore this idea with the questions:
How we might unearth value in the mess?
How important is it to manage the cognitive complexity before we intervene?
Can we model our thinking to convey our intent throughout an enterprise?
If these issues intrigue you, intervene in your day and join us on 3 September at 10:00 AEST.
Register here: www.drrichardhodge.com/webcast
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[1] Dame Maggie Smith (playing Mrs Muriel Donnelly) speaking on the value of life in the movie The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) to Dev Patel (playing Sonny Kapoor).