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[Book] Wholehearted

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Inspired by Matthew Skelton's comment on Wholehearted I decided to read the book . This is not a review of the book, merely a note of the most important (to me, at least) take-aways. Being "whole" Why is it called wholehearted? The answer is given in the introduction and this helped me file the book in the right "box": a thing is whole according to how free it is of inner contradictions. When it is at war with itself, [...] it is unwhole. Mike Burrows then gives examples of situations in which we experience that "magical chemistry" that makes performing (in a group of people) effortless. This is (at least to me) a powerful revelation and a great way to define what I get to experience from time to time when my organization just performs. When that happens we are whole. And it's an awesome experience. The other insight that I got is that a business is always "at war": with the market. But when it also goes to war against itself because of...