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Category: Where Genius Grows

  • Navigating Polarities I — Interview

    From very early, we are taught to see the world in certain ways. And one of the first ways that we’re taught to see the world is through either/or. ‘Either the stove is hot or the stove is cold. And I touch it or I don’t touch it.’ That it is possible to expand our…

  • Journeying to the Growing Edge – Interview

    It’s had me just question why I’m using a map. It’s not, “Here I am, we’ve got a destination, we can surmount obstacles better.” Now it’s like, “Why are you on a journey?” And that doesn’t play well with our culture. And yet I want to be as transparent about it as possible” Gideon Culman…

  • Downgrading Your Certainty — Interview

    “I’d much rather look at the reality rather than the opinions people carry.” Tony Quinlan When we face intractable problems — wanting to change the trajectory of our lives and stalling, wanting to change the direction of our community and failing — an important area that we often don’t examine are the stories we tell…

  • Practicing Complexity Fitness — Interview

    “One of the things that we know from complexity theory — especially used in leadership — is that we can’t figure it out. There is no plan that can work, necessarily. But what we can do is we can pay attention to the patterns of behavior and we can just try stuff, experiment.” — Carolyn Coughlin…

  • Creating Transportive Experiences — Interview

    “It is 100% based around the idea of making dreams come true and going above and beyond the regular steps of service to build an experience that will be a memory that lasts a lifetime.” — Nitiya Sin We’ve all experienced moments in which time seems to stop. It’s as though we’re transported. To better understand…

  • Jean-François Cousin and Magda Mook sit for a Where Genius Grows interview in Washington, DC

    Letting Learners Teach Themselves — Interview

    “We don’t stop absorbing the new. We keep inviting it. We keep that curiosity. And I think that this is important, that we look at everything coming our way with curiosity rather than with judgment.”

  • Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps — Interview

    “When we don’t understand ourselves well enough and when we don’t understand the ways we trip up consistently, we act as though we haven’t tripped up, and that gets us into even more trouble.” — Jennifer Garvey Berger Jennifer Garvey Berger writes in her new book Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps about unhelpful patterns of behavior that we fall…

  • Choosing What You Like — Interview

    “Just because it’s rare, and just because somebody says it’s the best, doesn’t mean you even have to like it.” — Sarah Jane Curran Sarah Jane Curran is the host of the podcast Beer Me! She has focused her studies on beer in culinary school and grad school, she has been a beer director at…

  • Scaling Leadership — Interview

    “The complexity we face is actually an evolutionary pressure. We evolve or we die. And we’re there. We’re there as a species, we’re there in organizations, and we develop or else. And that’s harsh, but it’s also a spiritual bootcamp. It’s a kind of evolutionary pressure on us to evolve into more complex ways of knowing,…

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    Melting into Relationship — Interview

    “If you do the work to get yourself and your group to Stage 4, where you’re actually truly collaborating, you will be given offers in life to step in and participate effectively at Stage 5. This does not happen, this does not occur for the people at Stage 2 and 3. At Stage 3 they’re…