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I have talked with other leaders who got bumped into rock star status as young organizers and almost all of us share a few core experiences: People stopped seeing us. We became a place to project longings and critiques. We lost touch with the fact that it’s ok to make mistakes. Then we made the biggest mistakes of our lives. And we learned the hard way that rock star status is a cyclical thing. It becomes its own work, maintaining and promoting the rock star in the organization.

Emergent Strategy

adrienne maree brown

The sticking point tends to be something I call the adjacency fallacy: the idea that the roles that suit your personality and soft-skill strengths are likely to be socially adjacent to the one you are leaving behind.

The Adjacency Fallacy

ribbonfarm.com

Ultimately, you don’t think, “What would be ironic here?” while you’re doing improv. That’s too heady. What actually happens is that you feel something funny take place and you help make more of the funny thing. Look for whoever is acting differently than we expect.

How to Be the Greatest Improviser on Earth

Will Hines

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