The Elephant in the Room

Chapter 12 Consequences for leadership and organizational development

DOI: 10.4324/9781003357063-16

We cannot eliminate risk, for that is the core of work. But we can value learning and we can forgive failures. This is the hallmark of a developmental culture.

– Larry Hirschhorn

Moving from sequential to simultaneous tracks in design

In Chapter 1 I describe the two contexts where my awareness of the double task is heightened and where essential questions about the gap between insight and action – noticing and doing – move into the foreground as figure. The two contexts represent two different, well-founded learning approaches that, in their different ways, seek to reduce the gap between insight and action. Notwithstanding, the challenge ...