La nature d’une nouvelle entreprise

Je pense que c’est le meilleur texte publié sur un blogue qu’il m’ait été donné de lire: What Specifically Do Generalists Do?

Allez le lire! Plusieurs de mes amis s’y reconnaîtront! Bon nombre de mes thèmes favoris s’y retrouvent et y sont analysés avec une grande clarté. Un extrait pour piquer votre curiosité:

Nothing can substitute for depth of analysis, and there’s proven value in specialization – it’s what education, career paths, scientific research, and technological innovation are built on – but generalism is a secret talent. With so much complex information, fragmented in so many ways and developing faster and faster, it is increasingly important to have generalists around to make sense of it all, of the big picture. People who appreciate diversity, who are in the know about the wider world and who understand how things interact are invaluable observers, matchmakers, and pioneers of the intersectional ideas so vital for success in today’s knowledge economy, conceptual age, and global community.

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Great leaders excel at grasping the broader context of situations. Real leadership, encompassing multiple complex issues and a variety of differing perspectives, necessitates a true generalist mindset. This applies at the corporate and non-profit level but it applies especially in the political realm. Most important of all, effective leaders today understand that we’re no longer operating in a linear cause-and-effect world but rather in more of a web-like ecosystem where inter-relationships shape direction, decisions, and delegation.

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Perhaps this is the reason why many ecologists tend to be generalists? It’s a field of study that focuses on the global worldview and necessitates an understanding that things simply do not happen in isolation of other things. As Peter Senge championed in his classic on systems thinking The Fifth Discipline, it’s all connected. And ignoring this – and especially working against it – is what gets us into trouble.

Merci à Dale Arseneault d’avoir attiré mon attention sur ce texte qui m’aide à mieux comprendre plusieurs aspects de mon travail et à orienter avec une bien meilleure clarté le projet qui m’habite depuis deux ans et dont l’émergence est imminente.