We most easily see a system when the systems bend under stress.*
Seth Godin
Systems transformation involves working with time in contradictory ways: with urgency and patience, with beginning and ending, with pressing on and relaxing.**
Adam Kahane
I’m a system,
You’re a system:
When something goes wrong,
It’s probably been headed that way
for a while.
Ongoing system-development
won’t cover everything that might go awry,
But it will catch most chronic issues
and even prepare us
for many acute ones.
We underestimate the need
for at least daily maintenance;
It doesn’t appear in many TV dramas
because it doesn’t make
the necessary angsty characters.
It is an oft forgotten art
for keeping to the drama
we want to be exploring
in our lives and
avoiding the unwanted kind.
*Seth Godin’s This Is Strategy;
**Adam Kahane’s Everyday Habits For Transforming Systems.
THIN|SILENCE 