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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein
We are here to cocreate new structures and forms to generate social and spiritual innovations that will evolve our world, not conform to it. This is the purpose of the evolutionary type.
This means allowing ourselves to be on the cutting edge, exploring new territory and wandering into the unknown. It means being willing to let go of old beliefs and forms that no longer serve us, and to linger in formless places as new forms emerge. It means being willing to let go of what we think we already know.
How can we guide our selves through this planetary crisis? How can we begin to cooperate as a global society towards a positive future?
We must be willing to admit that we don't yet know!
Barbara Marx Hubbard
“I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself— while something else, still indistinct, were rising from the rubble.”
Vaclav Havel
The Very Edge of the Possible
I am endlessly compelled by the notion that higher stages or levels of development do not preexist, that is, they are not “given” but are literally created by brave individuals who actually venture into new, uncharted territory, laying down “grooves” that others follow, which eventually become actual new structures or stages. The fact that the future, even at the most subtle metaphysical levels, literally does not yet exist challenges our most fundamental spiritual/religious notions in every possible way, but if we're ready for it, it can be the source of enormous inspiration and promise. I think potentially what's the most thrilling for the postmodern self is the discovery that we are literally creating the future, which means we are not separate from the creative principle or God-impulse itself—God is evolving as we evolve. And this moment itself, assuming that one is leaning into it with all of one's being, reaching for the future, is potentially the very edge of the possible.
Andrew Cohen
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Our effectiveness as leaders depends not only on what we do and how we do it, but also on the inner place from where we operate, both individually and collectively. The need to pay attention to this inner place has largely been a blind spot in leadership research and is the single most important theme that has emerged from this investigation to date .
Otto Scharmer
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People with a high level of personal mastery share several basic characteristics. They have a special sense of purpose that lies behind their visions and goals...they see 'current reality' as an ally, not an enemy. They have learned how to perceive and work with forces of change rather than resist those forces. They are deeply inquisitive...they feel part of a larger creative process, which they can influence but cannot unilaterally control.
Peter Senge
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People with a high level of personal mastery live in a continual learning mode...personal mastery is not something you possess. It is a process. It is a lifelong discipline. People with a high level of personal mastery are acutely aware of their ignorance, their incompetence, their growth areas. And they are deeply self-confident. Paradoxical? Only for those who do not see that 'the journey is the reward' .
Peter Senge
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Consciousness is shared, and I don't think an individual human being, without language and without relationship with other people or any other thing, would be conscious. I think that consciousness has to be understood in relationship, not as a kind of isolated thing.
Rupert Sheldrake
Interdependence with nature, balance, awareness, openess, health, inquiry, blend, Collective revelation, invocation
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Witnessing the birth on new organizations
* Are based on clarity of shared purpose and principles.
* Are self-organizing and self-governing in whole and in part.
* Exist primarily to enable their constituent parts.
* Are powered from the periphery, unified from the core.
* Are durable in purpose and principle, malleable in form and function.
* Equitably distribute power, rights, responsibility and rewards.
* Harmoniously combine cooperation and competition.
* Learn, adapt and innovate in ever expanding cycles.
* Are compatible with the human spirit and the biosphere.
* Liberate and amplify ingenuity, initiative and judgment.
* Are compatible with and foster diversity, complexity and change.
* Constructively utilize and harmonize conflict and paradox.
* Restrain and appropriately embed command and control methods.
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The world of organizational change “is really going through two revolutions simultaneously: one is the living systems revolution, and the other comes from realizing that the transformation of individual and collective consciousness is critical to the evolution of organizations and the human beings in them.” In fact, the two are deeply interrelated.
Tom Rautenberg
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Each time that humanity's prevailing perceptual paradigm has changed, all aspects of life have changed with it, including the work we do, the ways we live together, how we relate to one another, and how we see our role in society and our place in the universe. We are now living at a time when humanity's perceptual paradigm is undergoing one of its rare shifts, and that shift has the potential to dramatically transform life for each of us. This shift therefore goes to the core of our lives. It is much more than a change in ideas and how we think. It is a change in our view of reality, identity, social relationships and human purpose. A paradigm shift can be felt in the body, heart, mind and soul."
Duane Elgin,
Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future
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Albert Einstein
We are here to cocreate new structures and forms to generate social and spiritual innovations that will evolve our world, not conform to it. This is the purpose of the evolutionary type.
This means allowing ourselves to be on the cutting edge, exploring new territory and wandering into the unknown. It means being willing to let go of old beliefs and forms that no longer serve us, and to linger in formless places as new forms emerge. It means being willing to let go of what we think we already know.
How can we guide our selves through this planetary crisis? How can we begin to cooperate as a global society towards a positive future?
We must be willing to admit that we don't yet know!
Barbara Marx Hubbard
“I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself— while something else, still indistinct, were rising from the rubble.”
Vaclav Havel
The Very Edge of the Possible
I am endlessly compelled by the notion that higher stages or levels of development do not preexist, that is, they are not “given” but are literally created by brave individuals who actually venture into new, uncharted territory, laying down “grooves” that others follow, which eventually become actual new structures or stages. The fact that the future, even at the most subtle metaphysical levels, literally does not yet exist challenges our most fundamental spiritual/religious notions in every possible way, but if we're ready for it, it can be the source of enormous inspiration and promise. I think potentially what's the most thrilling for the postmodern self is the discovery that we are literally creating the future, which means we are not separate from the creative principle or God-impulse itself—God is evolving as we evolve. And this moment itself, assuming that one is leaning into it with all of one's being, reaching for the future, is potentially the very edge of the possible.
Andrew Cohen
++++++++++++++++++++++++
Our effectiveness as leaders depends not only on what we do and how we do it, but also on the inner place from where we operate, both individually and collectively. The need to pay attention to this inner place has largely been a blind spot in leadership research and is the single most important theme that has emerged from this investigation to date .
Otto Scharmer
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People with a high level of personal mastery share several basic characteristics. They have a special sense of purpose that lies behind their visions and goals...they see 'current reality' as an ally, not an enemy. They have learned how to perceive and work with forces of change rather than resist those forces. They are deeply inquisitive...they feel part of a larger creative process, which they can influence but cannot unilaterally control.
Peter Senge
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People with a high level of personal mastery live in a continual learning mode...personal mastery is not something you possess. It is a process. It is a lifelong discipline. People with a high level of personal mastery are acutely aware of their ignorance, their incompetence, their growth areas. And they are deeply self-confident. Paradoxical? Only for those who do not see that 'the journey is the reward' .
Peter Senge
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Consciousness is shared, and I don't think an individual human being, without language and without relationship with other people or any other thing, would be conscious. I think that consciousness has to be understood in relationship, not as a kind of isolated thing.
Rupert Sheldrake
Interdependence with nature, balance, awareness, openess, health, inquiry, blend, Collective revelation, invocation
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Witnessing the birth on new organizations
* Are based on clarity of shared purpose and principles.
* Are self-organizing and self-governing in whole and in part.
* Exist primarily to enable their constituent parts.
* Are powered from the periphery, unified from the core.
* Are durable in purpose and principle, malleable in form and function.
* Equitably distribute power, rights, responsibility and rewards.
* Harmoniously combine cooperation and competition.
* Learn, adapt and innovate in ever expanding cycles.
* Are compatible with the human spirit and the biosphere.
* Liberate and amplify ingenuity, initiative and judgment.
* Are compatible with and foster diversity, complexity and change.
* Constructively utilize and harmonize conflict and paradox.
* Restrain and appropriately embed command and control methods.
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The world of organizational change “is really going through two revolutions simultaneously: one is the living systems revolution, and the other comes from realizing that the transformation of individual and collective consciousness is critical to the evolution of organizations and the human beings in them.” In fact, the two are deeply interrelated.
Tom Rautenberg
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Each time that humanity's prevailing perceptual paradigm has changed, all aspects of life have changed with it, including the work we do, the ways we live together, how we relate to one another, and how we see our role in society and our place in the universe. We are now living at a time when humanity's perceptual paradigm is undergoing one of its rare shifts, and that shift has the potential to dramatically transform life for each of us. This shift therefore goes to the core of our lives. It is much more than a change in ideas and how we think. It is a change in our view of reality, identity, social relationships and human purpose. A paradigm shift can be felt in the body, heart, mind and soul."
Duane Elgin,
Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future
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