Self-Differentiation: Knowing who you are as an individual and as an organization

What should you do next? How do you respond to an invitation or opportunity? How do you respond in a crisis? Knowing who you are and having a clear sense of identity and purpose makes responses far easier.

In system thinking, this is called self-differentiation. People who are not well self-differentiated tend to agree with the person in front of them. Trying to keep everyone happy all the time is a recipe for disaster.

In this roundtable, GSB Consultant Paul Walters will help us better understand these realities.

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