**October 18, 2022** #### Links [Transistor](https://share.transistor.fm/s/4b6f7898) [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3MTi7LqOyooodfrqDYWewv) [Google Podcasts](https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2Vzc2VudGlhbC1keW5hbWljcy13aXRoLWRlcmVrLWh1ZHNvbg/episode/NTI3Yjc1OTctZTg4Ni00YTNhLTgxNWMtNGJlNDAxMGRiZDY1?sa=X&ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjInq3xm-r6AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ) [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/essential-dynamics-with-derek-hudson/id1542392917) [Podcast Addict](https://podcastaddict.com/episode/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.transistor.fm%2F4b6f7898%2F0604c037.mp3&podcastId=3153944) #### Summary Domenico and Derek talk about how organization get stuck, and how they can get unstuck. #### Concepts - [[Core Conflict]] - [[Creative Tension]] #### Quotes > A core conflict exists because we view these two conflicting positions as unavoidable because we make a set of assumptions. >If I had seen less than 300 times this situation I could be hesitant, but I'm not anymore. >The reason why we are stuck, it's because we make a series of obsolete assumptions about how we should we measure our people, how we should we behave in the company, how we should measure our performance. >Ninety percent of our job is to make sure that people feel comfortable emotionally on this path. >There are several thinking processes that support the development, not just of the solution, but also how the solution will generate the desired results. So it's a very comprehensive, very all encompassing, kind of approach where all the elements, that I seem to understand, from Essential Dynamics are brought together with an epistemological rigor that is the result of many, many decades of study and, I would say, many thousands of years of consolidated wisdom. >If in a company the boss is sold, and everybody else is not, we can achieve results. If everybody else is sold, but not the CEO, we don't move one step. > Goldratt identified two fundamental needs for every human being and every organization. One is connected with stability and the other one is connected with satisfaction. And sometimes these two needs are addressed asymmetrically, so people seem to be happy to sacrifice, on the shrine of stability, any shred of satisfaction they might have from their work. And if they keep doing that, in time, they will wither as humans. > > So my recommendation to anyone who pays attention to your podcast is take a hard look at what are your drivers in life, what is the shape that stability has to take in your life, and what is the shape that satisfaction should take and then take a look at what you do and if and how what you do addresses both. If it doesn't, it's time to change. #### See also - [[Dynamic Tension - Finlayson-Fife]] - [[Drivers]] - [Moneyball Job Offer on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jjf1O4jMqeM&t=233s) - Domenic Lapore is at [Intelligent Management](https://www.intelligentmanagement.ws/) %% # Outtakes >What [the hyperscanning study] helped prove is that the more we are command and control, the more we are unloving, unparticipative,... the least our synapses are activated, we shut down... and we lose any ability to conceive anything beyond the conventional pattern than we follow everyday. >If we look at the needs that are protected by the two conflicting positions one always deals with fears, with control, with cost, with individual performance, with inwardness, and the other one always deals with performance, deals with vision, deals with expansion. A philosopher would say that one deals with imminence and the other deals with transcendence. These fundamental needs constantly lead to conflicting positions. 20:46 Domenico: What we've been doing, especially in the last ten years, is to create the synaptic situation to make people see why they should be doing things in a certain way. Derek: So, it's still hard, and it's hard because changing those patterns of thinking and those assumptions is hard. Domenico: But you can see the end in sight. We're not asking anybody to get on a journey where the destination is not clear. Our job, ninety percent of our job is to make sure that people feel comfortable, emotionally, on this path, and that's why...we talked about the cloud, the thinking processes... there are several thinking processes...that support the development, not just of the solution, but also how the solution will generate the desired results. So it's a very comprehensive, very encompassing, kind of approach where all the elements, that I seem to understand, from Essential Dynamics are brought together with an epistemological rigor that is the result of many, many decades of study and, I would say, many thousands of years of consolidated wisdom. Proposed quotation There are several thinking processes that support the development, not just of the solution, but also how the solution will generate the desired results. So it's a very comprehensive, you know, very all encompassing, kind of approach where all the elements, that I seem to understand, from Essential Dynamics are brought together with an epistemological rigor that is the result of many, many decades of study and, I would say, many thousands of years of consolidated wisdom.