Daniel Coyle

There are rules, like there are ways to cultivate gardens.

And there are habits of and practices of attention and practices of action.

And that's what I just got totally fell in love with the story of that, with the story.

What are those rules?

That's a mystery that really captivated me for the last five years.

absolutely i think the thing that i'm feeling most powerfully is how aligned that is with the way ecosystems actually grow so many of our models in the business world came out of the military came out of kind of machine thinking we want to execute have a plan have checkpoints and when you use that language you end up in training yourself on these mental models that it is about machines and control and prediction

And yet the world we live in is not super predictable, as we know.

And the idea of having a rigid machine, our mental model of business as some rigid machine whose job it is to do like any machine, the same thing over and over again, that is controlled by an outside person, a leader who can flip the switches and get the outcome they want.

I agree with you.

It feels outdated.

It still works for simple stuff.

If my mail shows up every day, that's great.

Love that machine.

That's fabulous.

Let's keep it going that way.

But in a world where so many of us work in domains and live in domains where it ain't the same every day, where there are forces and everything speeding up on us all the time, and there's innovation and creativity that's required, the idea of a machine is outdated.

What you really want is a greenhouse of kind of fast-growing stuff and a deep understanding of we need to grow people, first of all.

We need our people to be continually learning.

to be what i've heard described i think accurately as an arlo an adaptive resilient learning organization where you are continually at real time adapting to the shifting ground in which you live and so a leader's job in that place is very it couldn't be more different than the machine leader right you need to continually be

Creating conditions where you can generate awareness, agency, new ideas, give people opportunities to develop.