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Aug 31, 2011, 12:49 pm
I am often asked this question, so in the interests clarity about ambiguity and uncertainty...
Something is ambiguous if it can be interpreted or seen in more than one way. So for example a sentence in a job reference "you will be very fortunate to get this person to work for you" has a coupl... Comment - Like
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Aug 2, 2011, 5:38 am
Different people I come across or coach have very different relationships with the concepts of failing, learning and ambiguity. It appears there is a relationship between a person's ability to deal with all three.
On failing:
The range appears to be from people who in certain situations beat th... Comment - Like
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Jan 29, 2011, 2:08 am
Cranfield have published an audio about The Ambiguity Advantage: What great leaders are great at and leaders dealing with ambiguity. Listen to it here, or download it.
They mix modes and types / styles of leadership. They are not the same. See an earlier blog about modes here. Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2011, 5:52 am
So leading on from the previous blog. What I was really interested in was the quality of the feedback given to an individual through the four conditions mentioned in my last blog.
Just to remind you of the four conditions of the test:
1. An online automated product which gets respondents to ... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2011, 3:33 pm
I had the opportunity to test three versions of 360 degree feedback, using four different conditions in the last couple of weeks with some interesting results. The three versions were:1. An automated online system2. A pen and paper system, and 3. Interviews with respondents
1. The automated product ... Comment - Like
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Jan 24, 2011, 1:38 am
"Sorry sir you can't go through the barrier without a pass."
"I'm a new member of staff and they are going to give me my pass at the new staff induction that is starting in about 20 minutes"
" No pass No access sir"
" All these other cars?"
"Yes sir they don't have passes either."
"Let me guess, the... Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2011, 4:02 am
A couple of clients last week poked me and said. You must be busy because we haven't seen much from your blog recently. I have been working on a number of projects including the next book and a new academic post, however I will get back to this - now.
There have been a couple of interesting and inte... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2010, 7:26 am
Decisions and results
Everything we do is a decision, whether it is a conscious decison or not it is still a decision. Doing nothing or doing something else is also a decision. Every decision we make whether it is conscious or by default, changes what is going to happen next and therefore is going ... Comment - Like
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Nov 8, 2010, 7:08 am
"Ambiguity, risk and uncertainty scream out for their bedfellows; innovation, experimentation and play."
David Wilkinson
Author of 'The Ambiguity Advantage: What great leaders are great at.' Palgrave Macmillian Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2010, 5:28 am
I have been doing some work with a couple of clients around building a strategic plan. Usually what they want is a business / corporate / organizational strategy for the next 3 - 5 years. I highlighted the word a above for a very good reason, which I will explain in a second. However firstly I want ... Comment - Like
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Jun 21, 2010, 3:41 am
One of the areas I have been focussing on both in terms of work and research (there is another book on the way) is emotional resilience (we run The Fear Course in many UK universities). One of the most common misperception about emotional resilience is that it means people are able to do things like... Comment - Like
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Jun 19, 2010, 3:07 pm
Whilst coaching a client in the city this week, he made a comment that made me think. He was trying to solve an ambiguous dilemma, so I did what I thought all good coaches would do. Get the client to look at the problem from a whole series of different perspectives and to unpack their current proble... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2009, 2:52 pm
Minutes of Meeting...
Professor John xxxxxx Head of the School of Deportment requested that Dr. Platothefish explain why his nameplate read 'Head of Centre of Excellence for Political Decision Making' when there no such centre existed.
Dr. P replied he thought nameplate creativity was a custom as he... Comment - Like
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Jul 1, 2009, 1:52 am
In terms of population distribution by far the most frequent group of people are mode two or co-operative people. Approximately 55% of the population have a tendency towards a co-operative thinking system (What is a mode?).
So what are the attributes of a mode two logic system?
1. The first thing of... Comment - Like
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Dec 27, 2008, 3:46 am
As followership and leadership rely on relationships in this blog I will look at mode one relationships from both a leadership and a followers perspective.
Mode One Leaders
The key here is that mode one people do not like uncertainty or risk and that their reaction is to block it out in some way.
Mo... Comment - Like
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Dec 22, 2008, 11:24 am
To: All Staff
From: Professor xxxxxxxxxxx Deputy VC
Subject: Christmas Annual Leave
A large number of emails have been directed at the HR office today from staff accusing them of being Scrooge and worse.
I have investigated the certificates found in the five eggs discovered yesterday. It would appea... Comment - Like
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Dec 22, 2008, 11:21 am
To: All Staff
Please note. I have checked with the VC's office. The certificates for extended holidays being found in the eggs are not real. They did not come form the VC and therefore will not be honored.
XXXXxxxxx
HR Directorate Comment - Like
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Dec 22, 2008, 11:20 am
To: All staff
Just on my way. Anyone want to come?
George xxxxxxxxxx
Senior Lecturer
Geophysics Comment - Like
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Dec 22, 2008, 11:19 am
To: All staff
How the blazes did that get there it must be 20 foot high? Has anyone been up to it?
Ben Comment - Like
platothefish posted an article on
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Dec 22, 2008, 11:17 am
To: All staff
OMG I have found the egg guys. Just look on the Rugby field!
Tina
Reception Comment - Like
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Dec 22, 2008, 11:11 am
To: All staff
Two more eggs have turned up, one in the office of the catering manager and one in building 244's cleaning cupboard. The cleaner dropped hers and found a certificate from the VC saying that the bearer of the certificate is entitled to two extra days off this Christmas, inside. It might... Comment - Like
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Dec 20, 2008, 12:55 pm
by email -
To all staff:
From Dr. xxxxxx xxxxx
I think I found a clue. I have just found a large egg on my desk.
Dr. xxxxxx xxxxx
From Prof. xxxxxxxx
Me too
From xxxxxxx xxx
And me - three more to go. Comment - Like
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Dec 20, 2008, 12:51 pm
Plato,
What do you know about all this 12 days of Christmas stuff going on? The entire staff are hunting for the next thing - 6 Geese? Do you know where they will turn up? Is this you?
Dear xxxxxx,
What and spoil the magic of Christmas?
Plato Comment - Like
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Dec 16, 2008, 1:54 am
The first group of people I will look at as part of this series on followership and leadership are what is known as mode one or technical people.
The term technical leadership or followership comes from the thinking and subsequent approaches to problem solving that underpin and define this system.
M... Comment - Like
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Dec 13, 2008, 2:19 am
I have been asked for a little more info about the concept of a mode.
Whilst conducting research for the book ‘The Ambiguity Advantage’ I spent four years examining people’s reactions to ambiguous and uncertain situations. One r... Comment - Like
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Dec 12, 2008, 10:41 am
Firstly sorry about the pause in the blog. I have been setting up a new venture which has taken up more time than I expected, and we have been a little busy helping people deal with risk, ambiguity and emotional resilience. I have a sneeking feeling that I am in a minority in enjoying the current ti... Comment - Like
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Jul 22, 2008, 3:27 am
I wouldn't normally do this, however Ira has responded to the last blog about his work. His response is very useful and adds to the short description I gave of his work so I will quote it at length here as it deserves a more prominent place than in the comments bucket.
Hi. This is Ira Chaleff respon... Comment - Like
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Jul 21, 2008, 3:30 am
The next followership model, another typology, comes from Ira Chaleff who I believe is part of the Followership Exchange a rather useful wiki devoted to followership. Chaleff published 'The Couagous Follower; Standing up and for our leaders.' initially in 1995 and earlier this year (2008) published ... Comment - Like
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Jul 2, 2008, 4:35 pm
Today we travel back to 1965, to one of the earliest contemporary models of followership. Abraham Zaleznik, a professor at Havard, proposed the model in an article titled The Dynamics of Subordinacy in the HBR. The title itself speaks volumes about the thinking of the time. The concept of the subord... Comment - Like
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Jun 24, 2008, 1:46 pm
The next model comes from Barbara Kellerman (Havard University's JFK School of Government) who I shared the stage with whilst we were both delivering presentations to the Royal Air Force Leadership Conference last year. Barbara who is famous for her work on bad leadership published an article last y... Comment - Like
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Jun 23, 2008, 4:46 am
The first model we will look at is perhaps the most widely used in the leadership / followership literature. The focus of the model are followers' behaviour and thinking characteristics. Kelly who published a book called the 'Power of followership' in 1992 proposed that followers tended (convenientl... Comment - Like
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