Episode 321 - Getting REAL About Changing the Way You Look at Things with Jodee

Wayne Dyer famously said, 'When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.' But do they? Does the object itself change—or does a different perspective allow us to see something that was there all along?

In this solo episode, Jodee moves from that question into her first full spoken explanation of Human Systems Development. Rather than treating an organization as a machine whose people and outcomes can be controlled, Human Systems Development asks us to see people, relationships, teams, cultures, and organizations as living systems. Every system is already producing outcomes consistent with the conditions that have emerged within it. We cannot plant corn and demand a carrot. We can, however, become more conscious of the ground we are tending.

Jodee explores culture as something elusive but always present—much like electricity or energy. We may not be able to hold it in our hands, but we can feel its effects, and it always leaves clues. She introduces three parts of the Human Systems Development worldview: how we develop capacity, how we see the system, and how we work together over time. She also invites us to look through three lenses: individual, relational, and systemic.

The goal is not to eliminate tension and uncertainty or engineer people into predetermined outcomes. It is to develop our shared capacity to navigate reality well, notice what our systems are producing, and tend the conditions in which people can contribute, learn, and become more fully who they are.