pull: ability to draw out people and resources as needed to address opportunities and challenges. pull gives us unprecedented access to what we need, when we need it even if we're not quite sure what "it" is. Pull allows us to harness and uleash the forces of attraction, influence, and serendipity. Using ull, we cna create the conditions by which individuals, teams and even institutions can achieve their potential in less time and with more impact than has ever been possible. p. 2
[this is stinking only p. 2... dang.]
it's about figuring out how to be systematic in how we combine work and life to pursue our passions, how to find others who share our passion but bring different experiences and perspectives to challenging performance needs, and ow to create conditions where we're more likely to happen upon interesting people, resources, and opportunities - even as we contribute the same chances to others. p. 6
push: forecasting needs and then designing the most efficient systems to ensure that the right people and resources are available at the right time and the right place using carefully scripted and standardized processes. p. 9
dang.
gotta take a day off to finish this book.
no?
more here: innovating on the edge
and my first intro to hagel here in his post on passion and flow
Rico’s process may be an exemplar of Csíkszentmihályi’s “optimal experience,” but he as the antithesis of the passionate one. To mistake the two is to mistake “coping,” with “thriving.”
Passion is not about finding work bearable. It is the process by which people get in touch with their true loves in life and fearlessly pursue them, motivated by the opportunities and spaces for development, which often require that they ignore any rules that get in their way of achieving that potential. It is about love.
great summary of the book in a post here via @gauravonomics
and browns talk on the book in a post here via sumeet moghe
@jhagel @jseelybrown
in previous gens of institut change, an elite at top of organization created world into which everybody else needed to fit - power of pull
rather than mold individ's to fit needs of institu, institu's shape to provide (spaces) to help individ's achieve potential -power of pull
success of institu's will depend on their ability to amplify efforts of individuals so that small moves, smartly made, can become catalysts for broad impact.
refreshing stocks of what we know by participating in flows of new knowledge =fundamental to performance improvement - power of pull
if you want to find out what it is you don't know.... hang out w/others who might already know it.. fb..
attract people on the edge of our areas of interest to increase probability of serendipitous encounters p. 16
productive friction from unfamiliar territory 17
when people chase what they love...seek out & immerse themselves in knowledge flows, drinking deeply from new creative wells.... 20
institutional leaders need to seed out "reverse mentors" among (often younger) individuals who can help them understand and master edge practices 27
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