Change Starts From Small Conversations Meg Wheatley
Very great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care. | Meg Wheatley Continue reading Change Starts From Small Conversations Meg Wheatley
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Care is concern, compassion, or attention given to someone or something, often shown through supportive actions or a sense of responsibility.
Compassion is a social feeling that motivates people to go out of their way to relieve the physical, mental, or emotional pains of others and themselves. Compassion is sensitivity to the emotional aspects of the suffering of others. When based on notions such as fairness, justice, and interdependence, it may be considered partially rational in nature.
Compassion involves "feeling for another" and is a precursor to empathy, the "feeling as another" capacity (as opposed to sympathy, the "feeling towards another"). In common parlance, active compassion is the desire to alleviate another's suffering.
Compassion involves allowing ourselves to be moved by suffering to help alleviate and prevent it. An act of compassion is one that is intended to be helpful. Other virtues that harmonize with compassion include patience, wisdom, kindness, perseverance, warmth, and resolve. It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in altruism. The difference between sympathy and compassion is that the former responds to others' suffering with sorrow and concern whereas the latter responds with warmth and care. An article in Clinical Psychology Review suggests that "compassion consists of three facets: noticing, feeling, and responding".
Credit: Wikipedia - compassionVery great change starts from very small conversations, held among people who care. | Meg Wheatley Continue reading Change Starts From Small Conversations Meg Wheatley
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. | Dalai Lama Continue reading Love and Compassion Are Necessities, Not Luxuries Dalai Lama
The power to create a future requires us to choose to be accountable. To be accountable, among other things, means you act as an owner and part creator of whatever it is that you wish to improve. In the absence of this, you are in the position of effect, not cause … a powerless stance. To be accountable is to care for the well being of the whole … | Peter Block Continue reading Choose to Be Accountable Peter Block
You can’t make someone love you. You can’t force respect. You can’t mandate care. And you can’t build community. Please be careful with talk of building community. Community is a consequence of many contextual relationships intertwining over time, more like a meadow than legos. | Nora Bateson Continue reading You Can’t Build Community Nora Bateson
A community results from a web of complex and interdependent relationships that form over time among individuals who share common interests, values, and aspirations. Community members care deeply about one another and work closely together towards a common purpose. | David Gurteen Continue reading What Is a Community? David Gurteen (2022)
We all need care. Without it, children wouldn’t make it to adulthood, patients wouldn’t recover, and communities wouldn’t grow or thrive. And “care” doesn’t just extend to people, either: if we fail to take care of our possessions, our buildings, and our infrastructure, then our landfills will overflow and our cities will crumble. If we don’t care … | Lynn Berger Continue reading We All Need Care Lynn Berger
We’re social creatures, we depend on each other, which is why we need a sense of concern for others’ well-being. Compassion is what’s important and you don’t have to be religious to practise it. Practising compassion here and now—living a meaningful life—is what is most important. | Dalai Lama Continue reading We’re Social Creatures Dalai Lama
Gurteen Knowledge Blog March 7, 2022, 17:02. We all care about our own well-being and the well-being of our family. It’s our prime purpose to look after ourselves and our loved ones. Most of us live our whole lives thinking mainly about ourselves, our careers, and our families. We may give to charity, do a little in … Continue reading We Have Two Purposes in Life A personal one and a societal one
Gurteen Knowledge Blog October 2, 2022, 14:35. I am a big follower of the work of Dave Pollard. I only ever met him once, many years ago, but through his writing, he has considerably influenced me over the years. His insights into the nature of conversation and complexity never cease to provoke my thinking. Although his predictions … Continue reading Change Emerges From Conversation in Community with People You Love Dave Pollard
You will find the transcript of the last minute or so of Ronald Heifetz‘s talk below. The highlighting is mine and draws attention to what I consider to be the key points. Ronald’s views on leadership as a practice fit perfectly with the concept of Conversational Leadership. We are all capable of practicing conversational leadership. Transcript Distinguishing leadership … Continue reading Leadership Is a Practice Not a Position of Authority Ronald Heifetz (2019)
Spirituality means a deep appreciation, respect, and love for the universe, the world, all life, and humanity — a sense of connectedness, awe, wonder, and curiosity — a deep understanding of being human and alive. Credit: David Gurteen Posts where this quotation is embedded A Brief History of Knowledge 200,000 years of human history A Knowledge Café … Continue reading The Meaning of Spirituality David Gurteen
Care More. It’s only two words, but it’s hard to think of a better mantra for the organization that is smart enough to understand the core underpinning of their business, as well as one in search of a reason for being. No need to get all tied up in subcycles of this leads to this which leads to that so therefore I care… Instead, there’s the … | Seth Godin Continue reading Care More Seth Godin
The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey explores the role of trust in business, organizations, and personal relationships. The main concept of the book is that trust is the basis of successful relationships, leadership, business, and society as a whole. Covey argues that trust can provide organizations and individuals with immense competitive advantages, … Continue reading The SPEED of Trust: the One Thing That Changes Everything By Stephen M. R. Covey (2006)
Gurteen Knowledge Blog November 15, 2023, 09:21. In a recent blook post, I explore how we are connected to the universe. Our very bodies are made of stardust created in ancient stars. We rely on Earth’s ecosystems for our survival. No firm boundaries separate us from the rest of existence. We’re small parts of the big story … Continue reading We Are All Stardust Our intimate connection with the universe
One person always loves more. That’s what makes it so difficult. And the one who loves more is vulnerable. Credit: Max in the film Nowhere in Africa Source: Nowhere in AfricaPosts where this quotation is embedded A Brief History of Knowledge 200,000 years of human history A Knowledge Café Is a Gathering It is not a meeting Analyze … Continue reading One Person Always Loves More Max in the film Nowhere in Africa (2001)
Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: At the first gate, ask yourself “Is it true?” At the second gate ask, “Is it necessary?” At the third gate ask, “Is it kind?” | Rumi Continue reading Before You Speak, Let Your Words Pass Through Three Gates A Sufi saying
Someone once told me that the power in all relationships lies with whoever cares less, and he was right. But power isn’t happiness, and I think that maybe happiness comes from caring more about people rather than less … Credit: Connor Mead in the film Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Source: Ghosts of Girlfriends PastPosts where … Continue reading The Power in All Relationships Lies with Whoever Cares Less Connor Mead in the film Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
Curiosity evokes ‘concern’; it evokes the care one takes for what exists and could exist; a readiness to find strange and singular what surrounds us; a certain relentlessness to break up our familiarities and to regard otherwise the same things; a fervor to grasp what is happening and what passes; a casualness in regard to the traditional … | Michel Foucault Continue reading Curiosity Evokes Concern Michel Foucault
Gurteen Knowledge Blog January 28, 2024, 20:53. I watched the film “Nowhere in Africa” on a plane trip some years ago and jotted down this quote from the movie. In the film, Max, Jettel’s father-in-law, says this to her about his son. It resonated with something I have long felt — that in a relationship, the one … Continue reading The One Who Loves More Is vulnerable
Gurteen Knowledge Blog June 19, 2021, 21:05. I have long thought that to help cure many of the ills in the world that all we needed to do was “to care more.” To care more about each other and to care more about our planet. To say that “love is the answer” seemed a little too twee, … Continue reading Is Love the Answer? It may seem corny, but love is the answer
Whether you want to change the political or economic system, save the whales, stop global warming, reform education, spark innovation or anything else, the answer is in how meaning, and understanding of what needs to be done, emerges from conversation in community with people you love, people who care. | Dave Pollard Continue reading What Needs to Be Done, Emerges From Conversation Dave Pollard
Exploring the Adjacent Possible The Etymology of Curiosity Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close We’re often told curiosity helps us learn more, lead better, or think creatively. But when treated only as a tool, its deeper meaning … Continue reading The Care in Curiosity ** Seeing it not as a tool, but a way of being with the world
The Care in Curiosity ** Peter Block, the Grand Inquisitor, and Leadership Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Curiosity didn’t begin as a quest for knowledge but as an act of care. Over time, we’ve separated inquiry … Continue reading The Etymology of Curiosity A history rooted in care
Abstract Background Those attempting to implement changes in health care settings often find that intervention efforts do not progress as expected. Unexpected outcomes are often attributed to variation and/or error in implementation processes. We argue that some unanticipated variation in intervention outcomes arises because unexpected conversations emerge during intervention attempts. The purpose of this paper … Continue reading The Role of Conversation in Health Care Interventions Enabling sensemaking and learning
We’re All Different ** Care ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Continue reading Introduction: Community ** Members of a community care about each other
Without care, society would be impossible. Caring is at the root of creating a better world. If we care, we take responsibility. Continue reading Care ** We naturally take responsibility for the people and the things that we care about
A community is more than just a group of people with shared interests. Many networks and organizations call themselves communities, but they often lack the deeper connections that make a real community. True communities grow over time through meaningful relationships, shared purpose, and mutual care—not through design or construction. Continue reading What Makes a Real Community? Members of a community care about each other
What Are Mindsets? What Are Morals? Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Values are the basis of personal and collective judgments about what is valuable in life. They influence our decision-making on all sorts of issues, primarily … Continue reading Values Values are beliefs we hold that something is good or desirable
Introduction: Principles of Conversational Leadership II. Embrace Complexity Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Take responsibility: In life, we can choose to take responsibility in several ways. Most critically, we can choose to take ownership of the … Continue reading I. Take Responsibility We need to take responsibility for the changes we wish to see in the world
IV. Leverage the Power of Conversation Introduction: Principles of Conversational Leadership Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close Nurture community: We need to nurture community. An organization is a community of human beings and not a collection of … Continue reading V. Nurture Community We need to care more about each other
It is often suggested that offering rewards is necessary to motivate people, particularly when it comes to sharing their knowledge. However, this strategy is ultimately ineffective and potentially harmful in the long run. Continue reading Punished by Rewards Loving what you do is a more powerful motivator than any goody