Status Updates From Navigating Polarities: Usin...

Facilitating groups:
• Shared visual: Writing looks less formalized (compared to typing) and so keeps people creative
• Populating the map: Allow groups to rotate & populate the quadrants in four corners of a room, perhaps summarizing with an image
• Third Way: metaphor, made-up word/phrase
• Think-Pair-Square: personal to group vulnerabilities
- p. 115-117

Third Way is more doing than being, and will not always be equally weighted. However, getting more X without losing Y might seem utopian and result in effort inflation. - p. 114

Include other stakeholders in retreats e.g. PSG, SAC. - p. 109

Don’t simply transfer opposites to the other diagonal; discuss each quadrant separately and check the opposites later. - p. 107

🖥️Monitor to Discern, 5️⃣/5️⃣:
• manage polarities through integration over time
• revisit Navigator to discern progress & next steps
• discuss with stakeholders for multiple perspectives
• long-term success
• courage to question & be honest
• ongoing process to value all perspectives & commit to dialogue
- p. 97-98

🗺️Map to Understand, 2️⃣/5️⃣:
• include stakeholders
• name benefits & overuses
• objectify polarities
• dialogue to make meaning
- p. 95

Act to Expand, 4️⃣/5️⃣:
• intentional action over time
• based on standing in the Third Way & stepping into the Vulnerability Throughway
• platform for action
• strategies should be realistic & drive accountability
• may need project tracker, agendas, or schedules
- p. 96-97

Map to Understand, 2️⃣/5️⃣:
• reintegrating poles after differentiating
• visualising the experience if both poles exist simultaneously
• connecting deeply to a vision
• identifying what feels risky & embracing the vulnerability
• increasing understanding & sense to navigate effectively
• robust & sustainable strategies
- p. 95-96

Navigating polarities, 1️⃣/5️⃣:
• problem or polarity?
• most important & difficult step
• requires benefits of both poles for success
• results from overusing a pole
- p. 92-93

5️⃣ steps to navigate polarities:
1. 🔎Analyse to See: Problem or polarity?
2. 🗺️Map to Understand: Benefits & Overuses
3. 🧭Explore to Connect: Third Way & Vulnerability
4. 💗Act to Expand: Strategies & Actions
5. 🖥️Monitor to Discern: Watch & Adjust
- p. 92

Strategies:
• try small actions, see how they go, and adjust as needed
• ensure actions from both poles balance out in moving toward the Third Way
• Start-Stop-Continue-Modify
• do something rather than do nothing for fear of doing it imperfectly
- p. 85-89

Creating strategies:
1. Brainstorm creatively on another piece of paper
2. Prioritise what’s beneficial & realistic
3. Check & agree that the strategies would lead to outcomes
4. Specify who’ll do what by when
5. Ensure accountability & follow-through
- p. 84-85

Vulnerabilities’ different types & depths:
•different for everyone
•agreement isn’t necessary; capture them all
•varies in depth
•might be similar to overuses
•differentiate real risks & assumptions
- p. 80-81

Triggers that pull us away from the vulnerability throughway:
•losing identity
•becoming what we fear
•uneasy about the unknown
•judgment from the like-minded
- p. 78

🎞️Transformational Third Way
•poles: honours differences, reintegrates both, eliminates neither
•requires experience (not logic nor actions), subtlety, simplicity
•uses metaphors or original names/concepts
•Be = Third Way; Do = strategies
- p. 67-73

Benefits & Overuses:
•equality of benefits & overuses per pole
•consider each quadrant in isolation
•provide reasons if there’re identical items for increased detail to clarify values
•order doesn’t matter, but most do the infinity loop
•flip back & forth between poles to increase engagement & reduce tension
- p. 61-65

Creating pole names📛:
•neutrality
•pick a name first; modify it later
•cluster terms into a pole in a key
- p. 57-59

🔀 Process:
1. Pole names
2. Benefits & overuses
3. Transformational Third Way: reintegrate poles to reharmonise
4. Vulnerability Throughway: identify risk & courage needed
5. Strategies: action steps
- p. 56

🗺️ Polarity Navigator as sense-making map:
•paradox cognition
•Huff & Jenkins’ requirements for complexity
1. Visual model
2. Territorial domains
3. Nomenclature
4. 2+ simultaneous relationships
5. We can place ourselves in the mapped domain…
6. … and make mental movements through the map
- p. 52

Polarity Navigator:
1. Differentiates poles
2. Reintegrate poles
3. Name vulnerability
4. Identify action steps
- p. 52

💈How polarities work:
•We prefer one pole over the other.
•This leads us to see diagonals, where we tolerate a pole’s overuses for its benefits.
•We need vulnerability to navigate to the Transformational Third Way.
- p. 50

🧭Navigating paradox: better results, improved morale, richer communication, stronger relationships
1. Mapping: sense-making
2. Divining: fuller picture of past, present, future
3. Synergising: understanding self, other, we
4. Both/And-ing: assumes both polarities are needed for success
- p. 23