Hi there, thanks for coming – good to have you here. Once you’ve taken a look at the “About” page to get your bearings, feel free to just jump in. And, you may find it useful to explore these in order – beginning below with Fundamentals #1/4 – “The Complexity Gap”. And feel free to let me know if you’d like me to cover something you’re grappling with.
Aligning for Action in the Ecosystem in 7 Steps…on the Path to “Effortless” Leadership (#5/5)
Human Networks have, throughout history, held tremendous economic, social and even environmental potential. Yet, at a time when we most need them, very little is understood about how to access that potential - or, better said, how to enable them to access...
Strategically Aligning the Organization…on the Path to “Effortless” Leadership (#4/5)
Strategic Alignment is all too often "forced" - with actors in the system "complying" vs. committing. This fourth video extends the work of the first three to show you how strategic alignment can arise "organically" out of a properly structured emergent process to...
Aligning a Team in 7 Steps…on the Path to “Effortless” Leadership (#3/5)
Aligning a diverse team can be relatively effortless - if you create the right initial conditions and follow a few simple "rules". Here I walk you through a method I've developed and delivered dozens of times with continued success.
Mapping Strategic Complexity in 7 Steps (#2/5)
True Systems Thinking - the ability, on the fly, to think systemically - only took root in me once I'd learned to map systems - even (or especially) simple systems. Even if you never intend to map, knowing a bit about how it's done is a tremendous aid to thinking...
Stop Struggling with Reality…on the Path to “Effortless” Leadership (#1/5)
Far too many of us – whether leaders, teams, organizations, networks and/or consultants – struggle – unnecessarily. Our fundamental struggle is with reality – the reality of being human acting in complex systems. Here's how to align with those forces to create...
Leading the Industry…on the Path to “Effortless” Leadership
If you want to lead your industry, you need to internalize its structure as a system - as an "organism" in a competitive ecosystem. Here's how we did it for one global leader in the digital music space.
Leveraging Organizational Complexity…on the Path to Effortless Leadership
Rigorously aligning and leveraging your organization is essential to moving at speed in a complex, competitive ecosystem. Here's an example from a 120 person tech startup.
The (Failed) Promise of Systems Thinking
For well over 50 years now, Systems Thinking has offered us the opportunity to see, understand, and act with leverage on "the whole" vs. chasing the pieces. So, why haven't we seen more of it. Here's the one thing that missing - and would keep the promise.
Testing Your Business Model…on the Path to “Effortless” Leadership
Rigorously mapping out, exploring and assessing your business model - in the context of the real world - is essential, not just to success, but to survival - especially in today's complex, emergent world.
Emergent Impact
Emergent Impact – Organization/Network/Movement Building from the Ground Up Emergent Impact is what makes Effortless Leadership and Effortless Consulting work – why it’s possible at all – by working with Emergence, not against it. Emergent Impact exists between two...
“Effortless” Consulting…
"Effortless" Consulting – working with (vs. against) the reality of being human working in and on complex systems. Effortless Consulting sounds a lot like Effortless Leadership, doesn't it. Well, it should. Consultants, too, are working with humans in complex systems....
“Effortless” Leadership…
Effortless Leadership – working with (vs. against) the reality of being human working in and on complex systems. I touched on this on my “About” page. But, because even the notion of “effortless” is new to many leaders, it’s worth a bit of a deeper dive here. And,...
Fundamentals #4/4 Harnessing Complexity using Emergent Principles, Practices & Processes.
Here we’ll walk “end-to-end” through an example of how working in an emergent, systems centered way actually works to solve complex, "impossible" problems – building from the individual stakeholder perspective; through relationship building in teams (or “subgroups”);...
Fundamentals #3/4 “Impossible” Complexity: solving complex, wicked problems.
When I’m asked what I “do”, my typical response is “I solve problems most leaders think are impossible to solve” – and it’s true – I didn’t make that up. The leader of the #1 laptop computer supply chain literally said “That’s impossible” in response to my offer to...
Fundamentals #2/4 A Complexity Mindset – in an Age of Wicked Problems and Increasing Uncertainty
As we transition from a world of relative “certainty” to one of increasing “uncertainty”, how we perceive, think and act simply MUST shift. It’s a paradigm shift that moves us from hierarchy to emergence, from hierarchical organizations to networks, from struggling...
Fundamentals #1/4 The Complexity Gap & the failure of typical hierarchical approaches to leadership, strategy & impact.
I’m often asked why I use such a unique business model (e.g., letting clients set my fees); why I’m so concerned about scaling this way of working – of thinking, even of being (e.g., publishing on Facebook, Youtube, scottspann.com); and, because of that, why I...
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