Geese Speaking

Geese Travel Directionally, Coherently, and Collectively as a Design Principle. Evolutionary Systems Follow the Same Logic. Clear Boundaries Are the Objective. Open Boundaries Are Diffused. Rigid Boundaries Are Redundant. Clarity Holds the System in the Rigor and Is the Work of whole-system Designing. Spirals, Not Straight Lines.

Kathryn Maloney M.A. ABS

Kathryn Maloney is a strategy and systems change practitioner with thirty years of direct experience inside complex, high-stakes systems. Her discipline sits at the intersection of applied behavioral science, systems change, and strategic leadership. The terrain where human behavior, organisational architecture, and business outcomes meet. She works at that intersection, not theoretically but practically, with the leaders, builders, and makers navigating transformation, growth, and the particular pressures of this era.

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2025-02-17

Excerpted from Theeo Thoughts № 009, ten principles geese flocks operate by on their epic flights and during their communal stopovers worth building into every team.

Principle: Description
1. Guidance: The path is the way unfolding.
2. Protection: Looking out for, protecting, and watching out for danger is built into the co-desgin.
3. Community: In the air and on the ground, geese stick together knowing they achieve more as a collective than as individuals.
4. Loyalty: Standing with one another in the good and the difficult makes the challenges more bearable and the joys sweeter.
5. Journeying: Life is a series of long flights individually and collectively. To sustain the rigor, our foxhole friends matter to support, encourage, and help reach goals.
6. Trust: Leaning on and truting that we've got one another is the netting the knits a collective on long flights, during the ups and downs.
7. Teaming: In graceful, changeable, moveable formations, we take turns holding roles, sharing tasks, and helping out to go further and achieve more.
8. Determination: Not losing sight of the destination while journeying aids us in reaching places we never thought possible.
9. Adaptability: Adjusting to what comes our way and changing course with grace when the winds are too strong or because we need a new source of sustenance enables our flexibility, pushes us beyond our limited thinking mind, and grows us.
10. Communication: Speaking directly with (not at, about, or around) one another as a means of journeying provides safer, real-time passage.

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Published on 2025-02-17by Kathryn Maloney M.A. ABS