- To exercise leadership and create change, you must disturb people. But provoking without alienating people already under pressure, or shutting them down, can be a complex task. (Page 7)
- Most of us do not take kindly to being disturbed, particularly if our habits, traditions, and loyalties are involved. (1)
- Learning, growth, and change are possible but require skill, will, and deep commitment and love for individuals and their welfare. (2)
- Provocation is a skill set, a mindset, an analytic process, and an emotional experience that needs to be crafted, practiced, and refined over time. (3)
- Provocation is an essential tool for progress, adaptation, and change across a wide range of sectors and current problems. (5)
- Most learning and change comes from experiment, trial, and error, exactly what you are asking your participants to do. (9)
- For us, provocation should be viewed as constructive troublemaking, rather than something negative. Indeed, we want to avoid any stigma associated with it. (11)
