an online book by David Gurteen
A wayshaper does not direct. They do not impose a plan or engineer a solution. They modify the environment, the relational substrate, the information flows, and the constraints and affordances within which others will act, such that certain futures become more probable and others less so. | Dave Snowden Continue reading A Wayshaper Does Not Direct Dave Snowden
The visible leader making the decision is often doing something considerably less consequential than the network of relational and epistemic infrastructure that made that decision available, that shaped what options appeared thinkable, what coalitions existed, and what information arrived in a usable form. In communities as in organisations, the wayshaper is doing more of the causal work than the … | Dave Snowden Continue reading Decisions Are Shaped Before They Are Made Dave Snowden
