CONVIVIUM

Barb and the others are right..adventure lurks around most every corner! For change truly to happen and last within a system, however, the "adventure" that is taken up by the visonary leadership needs to be honest and authentic for the system. Nothing undercuts the ability to move things off of "stuckness" than a manufactured crisis, or inauthentic cry of urgency (as in, "We have to order before midnight tonight!).
I would also say that the adventure one takes on should be significant enough to jog the system out of its stuckness. Merely adjusting or tinkering with details/content of an issue only serves to deepen the rut, and give folks, and the leadership, the false sense of accomplishing something (chairs on the deck of the Titanic).
An adventure ought be something that either gives you at least one sleepless night, or a sense of excitement that makes it hard to wait to begin.
The adventure also should include a bit of being unsure about how it all is going to turn out!
I believe the key to "un-stuck-ness" whether in a system or in one's own life, is to work very hard to stay available. The question of "What next?" should be constantly rattling around inside our skulls.

In preparation for our Cabinet Retreat in September with Barb Lemmel, I've been re-reading "Generation to Generation". Today I came upon this, which I think confirms what Randy and others have shared about getting a system "unstuck". On page 224 Friedman writes, ..."And that suggests there is something basic to all human efforts to resist change or to resist being changed, irrespective of the context...People choose leaders because they promise to lead them to a happier or more fruitful state, but after the election, the followers invariably function, either individually or in concert, to frustrate their leaders' efforts." I think what Randy and others have said in a variety of ways is getting unstuck is a primary function of differentiated leadership and the result of focus on relationships...