Day #704 - Falling
Interconnection and the Organisation as Ecosystem
Like an idiot, I fell off the bike this morning, fortunately after I’d dropped River off. I was cycling back along the beach, turning a corner, and the back wheel just skidded out from under me on the sand. In my defence, the long tail bike is really heavy… anyway, both I, and the bike, were fine, although my pride took a hit as I consider myself an expert mountain biker!
A few people stopped to check I was ok, one of whom I see most mornings, cycling the other way. We have progressed, over the last couple of years, from ignoring each other, to shouting ‘hi’ to each other, and now, today, a proper conversation.
It reminded me of the notion of the Organisation as Ecosystem, something that sits at the heart of the Quiet Leadership work, and which I increasingly use in my core Social Leadership work: the idea of interconnection. Of multiple concurrent systems, all inhabiting the same space (like your friend network overlaps that of everyone else in your community.
Sometimes we find a boundary, sometimes we cross it. Spaces that seem strange become familiar, and yet however well we know a place, we do not know every view and perception of it.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider how well you know your space: the space of your leadership, your work.
And what would it take to let you discover something new? A new contact conversation, idea, or opportunity?
Sometimes accidents happen, and sometimes we accidentally discover a new connection or idea.
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