Unleash Your Complexity Genius by Garvey Berger Jennifer;Coughlin Carolyn;

Author:Garvey Berger, Jennifer;Coughlin, Carolyn;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

So here the practice is to think of the smallest moves that might shift the conditions that are creating this particular version of reality. It means remembering that you don’t know the answer, that no one does, and so nudging and learning is all we can offer. It means that you have to get away from that part of your ego that says that you want to make a big splash, to show everyone your brilliance, to be the hero of the story. Leaning into humility means you don’t do this on your own. You are creating the conditions for everyone involved to be part of the solution. Engaging your experimenting genius requires that you have the humility to step out of the center stage heroic role and see whether you can enable a lot more heroes around you.

Let’s say you want your children to care about school. You might be a hero and make a big splash by mortgaging your house and borrowing against your retirement to send them to the fancy private school in the next town. In your dream, they feel eternally grateful and credit your sacrifice for making their lives happier, their futures more successful. That’s a legitimate choice to make, but a thing you can only do once, and it had better work. It’s not experimenting—and if it doesn’t work, not only do you have a big mortgage, but you have the conditions for a lot of resentment all around.

If you pursue this direction with humility, you’d take lots of small steps and learn from them. To move toward the direction of getting your kids to care about school, you nudge in one direction—perhaps showing your own interest more deeply. You sit down with them for two weeks as they’re doing their homework and ask them questions about it. You read the books they’re reading for the next big exam. And you nudge in the other direction too (because you’re curious, right?) and test whether showing less interest might paradoxically get them interested in their own schooling. For three weeks, you don’t even say the word school if you can help it. You let them decide when and where (and, gulp, if) to do their homework. And you learn. And maybe, through these humble nudges, you get kids who find their own love of school. They’re the heroes at the center of the stage. You just helped them find their way. Your humility created the conditions for their greatness.

GEM: Don’t Shy Away from Endings

The final ancient element to unleashing your experimenting genius is a sense of temporariness, of mortality. The best complexity leaders are the ones who know that nothing they do will sustain forever. Their leadership is temporary. Their organizations—no matter how venerable or long-lived—are ultimately temporary. Everything is mortal. They understand that this idea or the next one, this problem or the next one, are like the flowers of a cherry blossom tree, like the gales that blow in from the sea. Life looks like this now: beautiful ideas, fierce problems.

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