THE DISS

Networking the Long Tail
There is a certain irony about writing about ideas in a linear sequence when you know reality is hardly linear… and has a long tail distribution with a few “power nodes” running the show.

Holy Smokes Batfolks!
I was ‘mulling’ over ideas about organizing recursively networked cycling elements of a periodic chart representing the leaderwork I refer to as GENERATI.

Path of Paths!
Generati represents dozens of models that help us help as leaders. It’s a bit… well not a bit — it’s a lot overwhelming… but the ‘path of paths’ is important to remember and that path is highly individual even as collaboration produces benefits beyond the one.

Born on date!
I’ve written about it since 1988 when I coined the term (Generati) reminiscing about the sudden shock of freedom when your own house of cards falls apart — for some of us, failure is the only way to succeed — which is hard to wish upon anyone!

Long story short…
I’m still here trying to sort things out — having not yet embraced the ideas on the other side of ‘spacetime’ which I’m fully aware of forming this side, so to speak.

And…
I look at it like this… our human experience is alarmingly at times, quite short. I’ll spend infinity in the stars so if the game here is fun and interesting, then batter up?

Speaking of INQUIRY?

I’ll tell you a short story.

Robert Frost has always been one of my favorite poets… writing:
“But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation. As my two eyes make one in sight Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done, For Heaven and the future’s sakes.” – Excerpted from Two Tramps in Mudtime

“My object in living is to unite my avocation and my vocation.”
I went to visit Frost’s house (more like a garage) in Key West, Florida, USA, on a bucket list getaway and didn’t know Hemingway had a house there. I bought a copy of THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA and dropped into a pub there and read the book.

Unforgettable path of paths.
I’m certain I don’t write well because I write for my children and grandchildren who may someday read something I’ve written and have an experience of what I was like on this mortal coil… outside of being a college ‘American Football Quarterback’, which is far more popular, unlike my life… but.

THE Real DISS
The Dynamic Inquiry System Skills (DISS) is a life’s work beyond sports, among many competing passions, so to speak.

@heart of the paradigm
Briefly, I must mention it early in any treatise of my leaderwork and teaching these models to others.

INQUIRY = Path of Paths
However, in this case, I wrote a book to explain it @ https://leadu.com/news. I’ll cut to the chase here and list the seven skills that are critical in Covey’s Habits.

THE DISS or Dynamic Inquiry System Skills:

• PING Insight
• PROBE Belief
• PROMPT RightACTION
• PERMIT Story
• PERTURB Assumptions
• PAUSE & BREATHE
• PACE Change

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