Motion, Intention, Boundary

My weekend was fragmentary, not in time, but space. I collaborated with a few different friends on a few different writing projects, all around the world. We did not speak, except through asynchronous comments, but we nonetheless were in dialogue. Oh, and i also spent time gardening, travelling, and cycling with the children.

You could say i lacked focus, or equally valid that i wove a narrative between parallel spaces: online and ‘real’, synchronous and delayed, ideas and reality. This theme is one i considered in the Socially Dynamic Organisation (albeit in a more serious and structural sense in that book). That we inhabit many different planes, which are not abstract from each other, but nor are they clearly visible to each other.

To me this speaks of leadership as motion, interconnection, boundary, interdisciplinary, fluid. Beyond system, beyond structure, at the intersection.

Also: of leadership as story listening, as weaving narrative, as dynamic.

Through another lens this may speak to leadership as unfocussed, which is challenging as losing focus can be a valid cognitive task, but equally a cause of failure. Perhaps more broad focus than fuzzy.

#WorkingOutLoud on Social Leadership