TPOVs @F-L-O-W
Design is Destiny
"I don’t know what your destiny will
be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will
be really happy are those who have sought and found how to
serve." – Albert Schweitzer
When choosing a course of action
@F-L-O-W to move you out of and beyond your current design, the following considerations have
to be evaluated related to the new design compared to
the design you are replacing and the risks and
rewards which are:
- consequential in nature
- cannot be easily undone
- a new direction not easily reversible
- and significantly affect the subsequent
degrees of freedom to decide and act differently
[Bullet points borrowed from a
client who borrowed them from:
Strategy Is Destiny: How
Strategy-Making Shapes a Company’s Future, by Robert Burgleman]
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That
is the penultimate question, and I will say more directed
towards Success Requirements than Inbornness which is
much less plastic as a design, although we can know and not be
subject to that design.
It requires discussion, debate, and
some courage because once you pull the trigger, recursion is
often not possible.
I think it is important to
understand this TPOV early on in the process @F-L-O-W because
as soon as the self-knowledge begins… change needs are going
to emerge as options.
Change in design is going to emerge naturally as subjectivity
shifts. However, as this takes place, half-truths are going to
rule the day, as they did in subjectivity at other levels and
mistakes are going to be made in shifting design parameters,
like changing jobs, careers, relationships, etc.
All that is required is for us to "perturb" design and the
nature of things will change.
Helpful Hint: GO EASY @F-L-O-W! Allow the
revelations and insights to build density over time and avoid
radical and sometimes even incremental shifts until you have
worked through the design changes, likely consequences, and
future forward conditions.
Action Step: Find an experienced Facilitator
@F-L-O-W to serve as a backstop for ideas, insight, and design.
Ready, Aim, Ready, Aim, then Fire.
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We hope you pick up valuable insights, ideas, and
tools during this process, which you can use for your own development as
well as your work and leadership with others.
You, Me, and We @F-L-O-W
Mike R. Jay is a developmentalist utilizing
consulting, coaching, mentoring and advising as methods to offer
developmental scaffolding for aspiring leaders who are interested in
being, doing, having, becoming, and contributing… to helping people
have lives.
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