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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

Introduction to The Seven Transformations of Organizations

by David Sibbet This fall I am steering my creative ship into a new online short-lab series called Exploring Organizational Transformation and a new book called The Seven Transformations of Organization. These will provide a channel for sharing how all my thinking and experience has emerged in an appreciation of
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

America's Circus Maximus

Roman games at the Circus Maximus reached their height under Emperor Trajan around 100 CE. Claude AI says there were 123 days of games involving 10,000 gladiators and 11, 000 animals. This period “coincided with Rome’s territorial height and increased wealth from conquests. I dreamed about the Circus
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

Responses to the Grove's Strategic Visioning Origins Call Chat Questions

David Sibbet agreed to respond to the questions that were asked in the chat during the Strategic Visioning: Origins and Theory zoom call held August 8, 2024. Here is what he thought would be worth sharing. Responses to the Strategic Visioning Origins Chat Questions David Sibbet agreed to respond to
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

Succession as a Gift of Emergence

This September Gisela Wendling became CEO of The Grove Consultants International, the comp any that I began in 1977 as Sibbet & Associates, and led through its incorporation as Graphic Guides, Inc. in 1988 and then the name change to The Grove in 1993. I want to share some reflections
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

Standing Like a Mountain

As the sun rose over the south shoulder of Mt. Shasta on the fourth morning of my vision quest solo, I found myself doing the “Standing Like a Mountain” pose. The theme of constancy in the face of change emerged as a big takeaway from days of reflection and I
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

Reflecting on Visionary Leadership

Now that we all are plunged into levels of uncertainty that seem unprecedented, the bedrock assumptions of western culture and leadership are being challenged. I want to share some reflections on visionary leadership through a personal lens. I am old enough to remember the cold war and hiding under a
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

Feeling Ukraine

My heart tea rs open every night watching the news about Ukraine. I’m working at feeling it—listening to the people, to their leader, to their mothers, to the reporters. We send support, but the feelings seem critical. War severs connections. I don’t want to disconnect. My doorway
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

Standing Up to The Sixth Extinction

“Earth's creatures are on the brink of a sixth mass extinction, comparable to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. That's the conclusion of a new study (by paleobiologist Anthony Barnosky of the University of California, Berkeley), which calculates that three-quarters of today's animal
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

Coping with Uncertainty

“We’ve been expecting the s____t to hit the fan,” said one of the participants on the third Zoom call of the day on Sunday. “Well It has.”  But another said, “It’s our collective chance to actually transform.” “I’m worried about my father, alone,” said another. “The
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

I'm In PERSISTENCE

Coming back to the United States from a month in Europe has my head spinning. Gisela and I were working in Germany, Austria, Italy and Poland, leading our Visual Consulting: Designing & Leading Change workshops with groups of consultants and managers interested in collaboration and change. They were all hyper
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Leading Change ⸱ David Sibbet

Visual Consulting: Co-Creating the Future

For years I’ve had an open geodesic sphere hanging in my studio with two quotes hanging in the middle. One is by Buckminster Fuller, inventor of geodesics. To paraphrase, he says you can’t reform humans where they are (I think he said “man,” dating him). The best you
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

Are You Feeling More Anxious These Days?

As summer heats up, I’m thinking ahead to the fall and Leading as Sacred Practice (LASP), the week-long conference that Gisela Wendling, Alan Briskin, Holger Scholz and I will be facilitating this October 23-27 (2017) at IONS’ Earthrise Retreat Center in Petaluma, California. Last year’s gathering in Germany
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