THE CONCENTRATOR CODES
Protocols for Solving Wicked Problems
The concentrator codes are a suite of action protocols that help you solve wicked problems. Below you will find a list of the codes and links to blog-post that describe each of them. At the end of the post you will see a button where you can purchase a micro-course which includes multiple resources to learn more and to build skill in the paricular action protocol. (Note: these courses are still in the process of being produced.)
Launch Codes for Start-ups and Start-Overs
- A series designed for start-ups and companies looking to catalyze system-wide change.
1. Become an attractor organization - Shift your mindset and liberate free energy.
2. Align all the forces - Learn how to create synergistic relationships.
3. Create a CRISP governance - Reduce complexity and increase agility with a governance that evolves.
4. Build strategic depth - Integrate the multiple meaning-making systems in your organization.
5. Design project life-cycle flows - Who is doing What… When and Why
6. Build powerful teams - Develop the environment to support shared leadership, rapid response and focus on continuous improvement.
All about Teams - Teams and team dynamics
- A series designed especially for coaches and facilitators based on fundamental protocols for top performance.
7. Trust - What is trust? How can you expand your trust network?
8. Power - What is the root protocol for power? How does power assymetry effect team performance?
9. Collective Action - How do collectively achieved outcomes emerge from a diverse array of starting perspectives?
10. Team Action Potential - Teams have dispositional states that adapt to changing conditions. How can you optimize your teams’ potential to take best action under different situations?
All about People - People working together
- A series focusing on the action protocols for top performing teams.
11. Self-organization - How self-organization happens and why you can trust it.
12. Shared-leadership - How to develop self-managed teams.
13. Prioritizing - Employing agile practices to focus on direct action.
14. Resolving conflict - Skills and practices to transform conflict into generative learning.
Human Systems - Thinking in terms of human systems.
- A series on sensemaking in human systems.
15. Individual sovereignity - Understanding autonomy and self-regulation.
16. Collective coherence - Understanding synergy and flow.
17. Emergent outcomes - Working with multiple futures.
18. Collective intelligence - Understanding collective intelligence: what it is and what it isn’t.
Future Code - Advanced skills
- A series on advanced skills for complex challenges.
19. Release complexity - Identify and release factors that escalate complexity.
20. Lower action thresholds - Identify factors that increase or decrease thresholds for action.
21. Sensemaking hierarchies - Implement sense-making hierarchies into your communication platform.
22. Mindful simplexity - Deepening your understanding of mindset and action protocols.
The Future of Work - How work will change us
- A series about how the workplace is reinventing itself to face 22nd century needs and challenges.
23. Open organizations -
24. Principles of open participation -
25. Wayfinding -
26. Emerging culture -
Our Future at Work - How work will enable us to change the world
- A series on the three leadership archetypes of the new workplace
28. Stewards
29. Change Wizards
30. Realizers