The Open Book by Dan Christian Lavric
Just something that occurred to me today as I was taking a note of what one of me team had said to me that I wanted to learn from.
How many leaders and managers consciously look to learn from their teams? How many are both open to the fact that they could learn from the people that they’ve hired and that work for them, as well consciously seeking out opportunities.
Out of Focus by Billy Alexander
I commented yesterday on the challenging tension between multi-tasking and focus on GTD Times. I referenced how I use Mark Forster’s Do It Tomorrow methodology (see blogroll) to enable as much focus as possible during day to day working.
What’s been nagging at me has been catalysed by my reading of Guy Claxton’s Hare Brain Tortoise Mind.
In the book Guy argues that our ‘intelligent unconscious’ is a sophisticated nervous system that gets to know the world by the idiosyncrasies of our own experience: ‘a brain is plastic: it transmutes ignorance into competence….. categories and concepts are distilled from particular encounters so that, by a process of spontaneous analogy, ‘what I do next’ can be informed by records of ‘what happened before”.
It ‘registers its patterns and develops and coordinates skillful responses’
Network Neurons 2 by Gerard79
I wrote a few days ago about failing to trust my ability to be ‘other-than-consciously’ complete on issues. I asked whether I am consciously intervening, thinking that this is a ‘better’ position.
Well, I’m pleased to say that I’m not sat alone in a corner with my nagging voice. I’ve just been continuing to read Guy Claxton’s Hare Brain Tortoise Mind. Most excellent as always (I started with his book on Buddhism about fourteen years ago)
Two things married together while I was vacuuming earlier (a classic case of ‘loafing’ for creativity whilst also earning familial brownie-points….)
