Did you wake up this morning and get yourself a beer?
Is your future uncertain? And is the end always near?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above, please join us for an uplifting session of Cornerstone Corporate Bingo and experience an agile pivot in these unprecedented times.
My name is not Karen, nor am I a truck driver. However I am a white, middle-aged female living in a leafy-green inner city suburb of Melbourne, and I did have a pretty ugly altercation with a truck driver the other day, in the presence of my teenage son. My son later told me that in this altercation, I had been “doing a Karen”.
Hello from the Cornerstone team – hope you are navigating through these strange and troubling times with a degree of equanimity….
We bet most of you don't think that systems and processes could ever be alluring or sexy, right ? Wrong.
We wanted to share your feedback with the entire Cornerstone community – the good, the bad and the ugly; so here goes.
We hope you’re not pleased to find that we are nearing the end of this article series. So here’s the thing….
Mastery in both Quadrants is required to shift Culture and Systems along the spectrum from toxic to vibrant and from obstructive to constructive respectively. What this looks like at Cornerstone is seen by the graphic below - what we call Ascension.
There are signs that the world of organisation and leadership development is just starting to cotton on to the idea of the importance of connecting people to organisational purpose. “About bloody time!” we say.
The challenge for leaders in a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous), world is to see and interpret the interdependency in these relationships. The Integral Framework provides great clarity in doing this.
You may well have heard of the acronym VUCA that is used by the military to describe modern warfare. More and more, VUCA is being used to describe current organisational life - Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous.