All Progress Lives On The Far Side Of Chaos!
Simon Bowen
Codifying Your Unique Genius Into Powerful Visual Models | Founder of The Models Method | Speaker, Advisor & Author | Host of "The Wisdom Of..." Podcast
I had the honour of presenting into two groups in the USA very early on Saturday morning and I told them something I think every business owner and leader should know …
I shared a perspective on what I believe is happening right now that is worthy of some conscious consideration by EVERY business leader.
We slip into a comfort zone of result over time that is the by-product of habitual thinking, behaviours and systems.
The comfort zone has a natural boundary that individuals find difficult to break through, let alone the ability for groups of people impacted by collective thinking trying to break through.
If we are to improve, we need to clear the comfort zone line, however clearing the line requires a level of disruption to force us out.
It’s fair to say that these are fairly chaotic times and chaos is EXACTLY the sort of disruption that pushes people out of their comfort zone.
Whilst it isn’t easy to think about right now, the reality is that all progress lives on the far side of chaos!
The problem is, most people hate the idea of walking into chaos, let alone through it.
It is for this reason, that true leaderships shows up on the leading edge of chaos.
Those leaders that lead themselves, and their team, intelligently into and through the chaos of these turbulent times, will almost certainly come out the other side having found new innovations that drive progress in their business.
As a leader, how comfortable are you with chaos?
Leader positif et rassembleur avec plus de 20 ans d'expérience en finance - secteurs automobile & immobilier.
4 年As a fast paced kind of guy, it's always a challenge for me to take my time and slow down. But in this changing process of implementing changes in my productivity and in order to attain peak performance, I need to accept the fact that it's a journey and it will not happen overnight, no matter how hard I work, I need time to think and process this change in my life. Thanks for this graphic, it summarize perfectly this journey I'm going through.
B2B export strategist | International business development | Swiss?&?Italian?based
4 年Thanks Simon for sharing this. I have got the point and I fully agree with you. Unknown creates fears to the most, but some can go through it and see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Project Consultant at Smiles Consulting
4 年A (another) great model Simon Bowen - The Models Guy. One of my beliefs is chaos is much easier to move with/through by building negative capability, that is "…when a man (woman) is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason…” (John Keats – the English poet, 1817). I think leaders who have negative capability are much stronger at dealing with (and thriving in) chaos. What do you think?
Award-Winning Filmmaker | Producer | Director | Editor | Head of Content Production at Loom Creative Studios
4 年Thanks for this encouraging insight Simon. Such great principle to live by - with the simple visual which is really easy to remember.
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4 年It is said that no philosophy can get us out of this current situation we are in but this is no mere philosophy, this is a fact. Thank you for sharing Simon. Everything great comes after chaos.