Follow the Joy

This week on www.management-issues.com on the Evolutionary Provocateur podcast is an interview with Nick Zeniuk called Follow the Joy. The conversation is part of a larger dialogue through the recent Knowledge and Innovation Network meeting in Tucson which really points to the imperative to turn the hierarchical organization structures on its side, literally, in order to see the horizontal nature of accomplishment. Dennis Sandow, Anne Murray Allen and Nick Zeniuk have all done or are doing work in this area and are the Inspirators for a different model of supporting and enabling accomplishment or performance.

The implications for executives and managers are pretty clear. It means arriving at a much higher comfort with not knowing. In other words, embracing the notion that you don't know what you don't know. In the gap between knowing and not knowing thrives curiousity which creates a climate where discovery replaces convention or habitual patterns.

This is as applicable to personal lives as it is to organizational dynamics. What drives curiousity in your experience? What is the value of curiousity to eliciting joy?

Your comments are welcome!