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Working in uncertainty has become the new normal, but what do
leaders have to draw upon when lacking the requisite knowledge? In
this book, the authors make a case for Negative Capability, which
enables leaders to work in a state of not knowing without simply
reaching for old ideas or resorting to habitual behaviours. It is
not a practice that can be measured, but its impact in leadership
practice is immense and tangible. Offering fresh insights for
leadership students, researchers, and practitioners on the
challenges of working in uncertainty, the book offers a novel
perspective on Negative Capability as a way of being. Each chapter
explores an aspect of Negative Capability through the accounts of
leaders and managers who had the courage to explore this way of
being and share the stories about its powerful impact. Ultimately,
this book explores how a practice of attention can lead to new ways
of understanding the role of purpose, leisure, and passion in
leadership practice.
This book describes an approach based on attention that can help
individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively. It presents
the first book-length reassessment of Wilfred Bion's ideas on
groups. Every group has a purpose or purposes - or, as Bion put it,
"every group, however casual, meets to 'do' something." The
approach described here shows how individual group members' use of
attention - both broad or "evenly suspended" and focused - can
promote a better understanding of purpose, making it possible for
them to do what they have met to do. This work of attention enables
group members to maintain a clear sense of their purpose and also
to recognise how easily they can become distracted, losing focus
and dispersing their energies into activities that are off task.
The approach builds on the authors' experience of using Bion's
insights into group dynamics over twenty-five years in different
contexts, formal and informal, as group members, managers, leaders,
teachers, consultants, researchers, family members, and friends.
This book describes an approach based on attention that can help
individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively. It presents
the first book-length reassessment of Wilfred Bion's ideas on
groups. Every group has a purpose or purposes - or, as Bion put it,
"every group, however casual, meets to 'do' something." The
approach described here shows how individual group members' use of
attention - both broad or "evenly suspended" and focused - can
promote a better understanding of purpose, making it possible for
them to do what they have met to do. This work of attention enables
group members to maintain a clear sense of their purpose and also
to recognise how easily they can become distracted, losing focus
and dispersing their energies into activities that are off task.
The approach builds on the authors' experience of using Bion's
insights into group dynamics over twenty-five years in different
contexts, formal and informal, as group members, managers, leaders,
teachers, consultants, researchers, family members, and friends.
In this book Pastor Peter Simpson surveys key factors in the
English Reformation, and looks into why it was so necessary. He
then analyses graciously the errors in the current teachings of the
Roman Catholic Church.
Thoughts before Breakfast is a book full of spiritual clues which
Carole has found while enjoying her own journey through life, and
while striving to find the spiritual answer to every challenge that
life throws at her.
Thoughts before Breakfast is a collection of Carole's spiritualist
church addresses that she has delivered over the years. Each
address is Carole's personal view on life and she likes to see
herself as a spiritual detective. She is always on the lookout for
spiritual clues or treasures.
Thoughts before Breakfast is a book full of wisdom and humour.
Carole Simpson encourages the reader to see life as a game, and to
play the game of life to their best advantage. Carole shares her
personal experiences of, what she calls, 'dog's poo in paradise'
moments to show the reader that even in the bleakest moments of
life there is a spiritual clue or answer to be found.
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