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Big Ideas:

3 skills that lead to successful groups: building safety, sharing vulnerability, establishing purpose
cohesive groups - telling stories and reminding one another what they stand for
murmuration - how birds move together
using small signals to link the present moment to the future ideal
organizations that don't have a purpose, mission, vision, etc.
the challenge of extracting a purpose
how to detect weak signals and act on them
going through the motions of purpose - some people feel it's not worthwhile
"What's the purpose of having a purpose?"
Purpose is a higher order construct - something you can build everything else around
If there are no words, there's no knowledge
Purpose seems too impractical - not actionable, practical enough
Cultural differences in focusing on culture
A tool without a purpose is just an object.
Leadership without purpose doesn't serve anyone
You can pivot around a purpose, and shift your business structure
Don't sell change
When companies focus their purpose around a story or stories, it can motivate employees in a new way
Having a clear beacon of purpose
What can organizations do to re-engage employees? Is story enough?
Belief that narratives only apply to children and politicians
Stories are a way to make groups work together - story-telling goes back thousands of years
Any good story has conflict and strong emotion -- some organizations still try to separate emotions from work
How to help people identify the stories that they are telling themselves?
Once you identify the story, you can change the story
How stories drive our emotional world.
Our brains want to close the loop, so we make up the rest of the story so we can move on - a necessary evolutionary device
Being in the matrix and not knowing you are in the matrix
Leading for Proficiency (being the lighthouse) - establishing priorities and connected behaviors
Leading for Creativity (being the ship's engineer, not the captain) - safe flat, high-candor environment, not about how to
What's your leadership purpose?
Transactional versus transformational leadership
The leader's job isn't to motivate others, but to create conditions for people to be motivated

Resources:

The Culture Code, by Daniel Coyle
Start with Why Simon Sinek
Find Your Why, Simon Sinek
Adam Grant

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