Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Good Leadership Is About Asking Good Questions
Especially when they find themselves in the midst of crisis and uncertainty, leaders should ask powerful and inspiring questions. Asking questions well can put you on the path to solving intractable problems and will also help you connect with others and, counterintuitively, to earn their trust. Those questions should be big in scope: What new opportunities have emerged that we don’t want to miss? How might we use new technologies to change our business model? And you should involve others in answering those questions —employees, stakeholders, and even customers. Doing so can not only help you generate better answers, it can also help you to change your organization’s culture.
Leaders today need to revisit an overlooked skill: asking questions. In my 40 years as an executive and advisor in Silicon Valley, I’ve often seen leaders assume that people look to them for answers — bold assertions that build people’s confidence in their competence. But in reality, that kind of approach erodes trust, especially at a time when so much is manifestly uncertain. You think you have the answers to all important questions? That suggests that you are either clueless — you have no idea how rapidly the world is changing — or that you are lying. In either case, you won’t find that trust that you’ve been looking for.
Instead, leaders should ask powerful and inspiring questions, convey that they don’t have the answers, and solicit others’ help to find them. The leaders I talk to tend to be nervous about this approach: Won’t it look like they don’t know what they’re doing? On the contrary, however, research has shown that expressing vulnerability and asking for help is a strong signal to others that you are trusting, and you’re more likely to be trusted in return. In fact, if you can learn to ask questions well, it can help you connect with others. Thinking together can put you on the path to solving intractable problems and sparking innovative thinking.
Drucker Forum 2020
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
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Friday, August 4, 2023
عسير
إحدي المدن السعودية من الأعلي .
تم زراعة 14 الف شجرة منذ مطلع العام الماضي .
ري الاشجار يعتمد علي المياه المعاد تدويرها .
ساهمت الاشجار في خفض درجات الحرارة بمعدل ثلاث الي خمس درجات في الظل .
تقضي الأسر عطلات نهاية الاسبوع في الحدائق والمتنزهات المفتوحه مجانا .
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Frozen Music
In the architecture of this 8th century Japanese Pagoda there are several relationships of the Golden Ratio (Phi).
This temple was designed and built carefully so that every detail corresponds to the Golden Ratio of Nature, thus displaying a design aligned with the fractal harmony of the Universe. It is no accident that her beauty is often called "frozen music."
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"The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion." – Plato
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✦ Image from the book "The Power of Limits: Proportional Harmonies in Nature, Art and Architecture", by György Doczi
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
A Game Changer...
- We recently had the privilege of reading your remarkable book, "The Art of Shaping Metropolis," and we were deeply inspired by the profound insights and expertise you shared within its pages.
“The Art of Shaping Metropolis" masterfully captures the essence of urban environments and showcases the artistry involved in creating sustainable, inclusive, and aesthetically pleasing metropolises.
In the book, you provide insightful analyses and case studies that explore the relationships between urban and rural areas. Your emphasis on the importance of holistic planning and sustainable development resonated with us, as we aim to uncover strategies for fostering balanced growth and equitable resource distribution
We are particularly interested in the book’s approach to how urban-rural linkages impact various aspects such as economic development, infrastructure, transportation, and environmental sustainability. It will greatly contribute to our understanding of these complexities and help us identify effective interventions and strategies for sustainable urban-rural development.
Thank you for the profound impact your book has had on our academic journey. Your exceptional work has inspired us to explore the complexities of urban planning and development, and we sincerely hope to have the opportunity to work with you as we delve into our thesis. -
Hope it clarifies the professional and academic relevance of the book.
Monday, July 10, 2023
إقرار القانون البيئي
صورة لمدينة فينيكس في ولاية اريزونا بالولايات المتحدة الأمريكية (قبل وبعد ) إقرار القانون البيئي
الذي يجبر المقاولين والمطورين العقاريين علئ زراعة
شجرة أمام كل منزل يقومون ببنائه وبحكم أن المدينة
تقع في مناخ صحراوي ودرجة الحرارة تصل ل42
شجرة واحدة أمام منزلك لسلامة رئتك.. وسلامة بصرك .. وسعادة نفسك .. فضلا على انها صدقة جارية .
أزرعوا اشجار
الاشجار تخفض درجة الحرارة
الاشجار تجلب الامطار للبلاد
الاشجار تولد اكسجين نقي لاطفالنا
الاشجار تمتص الضوضاء وعوادم السيارات وتنقي المناخ
الاشجار تمتص الاشعة اللاسلكيه من ابراج الاتصال المسبب للسرطانات
الاشجار ظل ومنظر وراحة نفسية
لو كل منزل يزرع شجرتين ويهتم بيهم كان منظر ومناخ البلاد تغير
معا لتشجير المدن
Friday, July 7, 2023
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Although it is important to ensure that initiatives produce gains for both people and place, meta measures of progress for each neighborhood are the best markers of neighborhood progress or regression. While each neighborhood context requires a different definition of a “positive outcome” and a different set of outcome-based measurement tools to evaluate these, meta or aggregate indicators are better at tracking progress than anything focused on one or more micro numbers. The meta indicators help ensure that everyone focuses on the larger picture, which typically requires efforts that advance multiple objectives simultaneously. Too much fixation on improving one or more social outcomes encourages actors to improve those numbers instead of focusing on overall neighborhood wellbeing.
These meta measures include the following:
• Relative property values (e.g., changes in property value compared to average changes in urban areas or similar rural counties)
• Resident transiency rate (e.g., percentage of residents moving annually)
• Family stability (e.g., percentage of children living in single-parent house holds, fraction of married or divorced adults)
• Collective efficacy (e.g., wealth of organizational life, level of participation in community activities, ability to enforce norms)
• Crime rates (e.g., overall crime rates, violent crime rates)
• School performance (e.g., dropout rates, test scores)
Tracking these measures by social group (race, ethnicity) and area (blocks, subsets of neighborhoods) ensures inclusiveness. Similarly, monitoring how well residents do over time ensures that benefits are shared if gentrification changes a population mix too rapidly. (All neighborhoods regularly experience some churn.) On a larger scale, creating measurements that agglomerate neighborhood indicators across cities, regions, or country would not only track broader progress but also increase the likelihood that place-based dynamics are prioritized.
Aligning everyone involved—from local leaders to various organizations (e.g., real estate developers, healthcare providers, philanthropists, housing authorities, education authorities, and economic development agencies)— around a small set of common indicators measuring neighborhood progress is essential. The indicators should be shared across all stakeholders and used as neighborhood performance metrics. There are, of course, other ways to measure the strength of neighborhoods—for example, a bottom-up approach that better reflects resident priorities and goals.
Thank you David Edwards and Purpose Built Communities for sharing their experience in this area.
For anyone who wants sources, please reach out.
#neighborhoods #placemaking #systemschange #socialimpact #communitydevelopment Placemaking Education PlacemakingX Adam Barlow-Thompson The Lupton Center The Neighboring Movement David Burton Eric Smith, MA Danya Pastuszek Debra Jakubec