Personal Strategy community: talks about the Radar, continued

How do you make sense of the things on your radar?

The 4th meet-up of the Personal Strategy community explored this question, looking at it from as many perspectives as the number of people who joined the talks.

Radar as part of the Sense & Change model for Personal Strategy

Here are some of the key ideas and questions that we shared. As usual, it’s just a taste of our talks, as it’s hard to reflect in writing the richness of the discussions 💡

Limited bandwidth of the radar

• There’s a limited number of things that we can pay attention to at any time
• Limited number of contexts that we can be aware of
• Radar as a minimum viable map that we continuously use

Paying attention to events

• Distinguish between events with global effects, big impact, many second-order implications and narrow ones, affecting only a specific business sector or only people like me
• Understanding global effects that may come with further changes to be alert to
• Is there any meaning, any sense behind the event? or … sometimes there is no sense. For example: is there any sense behind the pandemic? Now the event is taking place — does it create meaning for people, for organizations? This movement is making all sense by itself

Paying attention to relationships

• Understand the important things in a context (e.g. in the organization that you work with) through conversations with people
• Distinguish layers present in conversations: personal motivation, history etc.
• Multiple ways of unpacking conversations: intuition, noticing patterns across conversations, correlations, overlaps, keywords, cross-questions
• You cannot clap with one hand — relationship needs both partners
• Changing myself to accommodate the other — what is this relationship giving me, what am I giving?
• Interpreting certain things together — useful to have a partner to unpack certain contexts and situations. Overlapping radars

Paying attention to information flows

• What are the information flows that you are connected with in specific contexts and why?
• Especially now, when we are surrounded by lots of information
• Mapping information flows using Miro — visualize to optimize

Events / Relationships / Information Flows as anchors on the radar

Radar & locus of control

• Is this an event that I can have an impact on or not? How much I can have an impact, how much is under my control to make a change?
• Do I have any part in that? Do I want to play a part in that? Am I going to pay attention to it?
• Not to confuse the circle of power with the circle of considerations and worry. Most of the time —worries don’t materialize

Challenging your own bubble

• Look for something different, not only things in your immediate environment
• Challenge your radar — Choosing to look differently at things. Helps you think differently
• There might be important things that impact you, that you might not be aware of — connect to new information streams

Information fast food

• Is this a fast food information or is it really nutritious?
• Seeking sources with good nutritional value, going to the source of things, not mainstream information that’s optimized for fast food-like consumption. Paying attention to forms without substance
• Nutritional value is not only for the mind, but also good for the soul and for the body, bringing joy
• Retention of informational nutrients, retention of knowledge, knowledge in motion
• Information as matter and energy

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens.” ~Carl Jung quote shared during the talks

Next time we’ll continue exploring the Capabilities area of the Sense & Change model, along with the question of ”What are you able to do?”

Enjoy the adventure,
Bülent

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