Muddling Through

[Henri Lipmanowicz]

Chris,

Judging from my personal experience, the only way to become comfy with mess
is to experience repeatedly the great outcomes that are achieved when one
has been willing to work one's way through the mess. So imho the only tip is
"create more experiences".
Comfort with mess is another one of those things that cannot be learned in a
book or by listening to someone trying to convince you how desirable messes
are. You have to survive it to believe it!

Henri

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Subject: Re: Muddling Through

Are there any specific tips on helping the traditional management mind feel
comfy with mess? I was at a circle hosted by Meg Wheatley, where she said
that she is only truly confident that a project is getting anywhere real if
it enters all involved into a messy stage (the very opposite of the way all
business cases appear to be written up as
proceeding)

As a result of the circle, advising on how to make management happy with
entering into mess is one of my main areas of work, but its odd how hard it
seems to be to collect tips together into one summary that we can agree with

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