By: Nicolai Buccino

Nicolai Buccino — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:12:31 +0000

“Unnatural Acts” Summary & Main Ideas
As Human being we are prone to messiness, prone to ambiguity, uncertainty, imperfection, defensiveness, and skewed version of reality at times. But we live in a world that is ran and operated with the use of organizations in which structure, predictability, conformity, and stability is key. This major difference does create some messy problems when as humans we operate within the organization and are encouraged and sometime forced to act as the organization does. This is often the exact opposite as we as humans would naturally react and this where the idea of “unnatural acts” occur. Meaning we go against normal human behavior and engage in a behavior or state of mind that is expected from the corporation.
Acting in this way has made some messy problems as we are all imperfect humans and we usually are being led by imperfect or even incapable leaders that we have to follow. Why? Because without corporations are lives would look much different. The idea of Rugged Individualism just doesn’t work, we are such dependable beings, its in our nature.
Because corporations are apart of our life we need to start facing the problems that we are going to experience in our corporations. The messy problems that seem unsolvable even. Because ignoring them wont help. In order to start to sort out and solve such complex problems there are 5 themes that need to be grasped:
• a STRUCTURE for addressing wicked problems;
• a PROCESS for working on them;
• DISCIPLINE to continue the effort;
• COMMITMENT to provide adequate resources
• enough TIME to actually make a difference.
ANALYSIS & APPLICATION:
“Even the best organizations I’ve worked with [and Covey has worked with most of the biggest and best organizations in the world] are absolutely filled with problems. The pain from these problems is…becoming more acute…”
In order for us to start hitting the problems head in the places where we work there are unnatural traits that need to accepted and conducted:
• Transparency
• Trust
• Teams
• Ownership
• Long term thinking
• Limited amount of blaming
As humans we need to grow and learn to become better people. Its through servant leadership and self sacrifice that we can began to initiate such unnatural acts and start to bride, gap, and solve the messy problems within our work environments, home environments, and even relationships.

Nicolai

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By: Nicolai Buccino