Author: soulsystems
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Learn to Unlearn
How to unlearn the flawed assumptions that prevent us from transforming our world and ourselves. Main Article: On a lonely mountain airstrip surrounded by rainforest, two foreign workers and their Yali tribal friend in possession of the wonderfully odd name, Fingernail, climbed into a small, single-engine propeller aircraft. The pilot gunned the engine until it…
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Transform Conflict
How to understand the dynamics of conflict so that you can stop the damage and enable transformation, drawing on lessons from war-zones to boardrooms. The politician’s bodyguard and I relaxed on the winter-browned lawn under the pleasant warmth of the South African sun. But his story was chilling my heart. “I once knew a man…
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Superb Insights into a New Kind of Workplace
Soul Systems strategic partner, Marv Franz, has just published a co-authored book, The Inspired Workplace, in which he and Dr. Hugh Drouin share profound but highly practical insights and tools for building a workplace that inspires. These are methods proven through Marv’s work with our clients and those served by his own practise, New Vantage. To get…
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Soul Systems Consultant Shows Power of Strategic Information in AIDS Response
Before Big Data was the trend it is now, information acquisition and use helped drive a strategic response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic. This is the subject of a new paper co-authored by Soul Systems’ Wayne Gill, Strategic Information consultant. You can find the paper here.
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Negotiate to Innovate
We live in an age of innovation, and in a culture that prizes it dearly. But innovation is a social process, and negotiation is a key social mechanism to enable it. Jonathan Wilson draws on the latest Apple innovation – its Apple Watch, to demonstrate that this breakthrough required not just problem solving ingenuity, but…
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A Thief in the House?
A hard-hitting self-critique of how we steal value from ourselves and our customers.
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Culture Ate Strategy For Breakfast. At night, ironically.
Soul Systems CEO Jonathan Wilson had a privilege of participating in the 360 Degrees of Inspiration panel on the topic culture eats strategy for breakfast (popularized by Ford President Mark Fields). Jonathan enjoyed the enthusiastic and informed engagement by this audience. See the follow-up report here.
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Dreams too lofty? Perhaps not.
The Fall season of Leadership by Soul posts begins with a new home and a new look for these monthly Leadership reflections. The September edition is entitled Too Big to Pursue? Forsaking the Inevitable to Pursue the Impossible wherein SoulSystems CEO Jonathan Wilson weighs in on those high strategic goals that may not be as…
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Five Little Executives: a 25sec parable that could increase your performance by 30%
The Five Little Executives: how organizational leaders accelerate performance by up to 30%.
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How Is Your Team Performing?
How Is Your Team Performing? Introducing the Collaboration Matrix. The Soul Systems’ Collaboration Matrix™ tool assesses whether or not your team has built two critical pieces of an effective collaboration (with a third piece hinted at in the slideshow. Can you find it?).