An Emerging
Leadership Philosophy
In his 1999 book, The Innovators Dilemma, Clayton Christensen coined the term “disruptive innovation.” In economic terms, he explains how “traditional” organizations so often use new technologies in ways that sustain their already established ways and how they are so often “disrupted” by smaller, more entrepreneurial organizations that use the same technologies differently.
The concepts of quantum mechanics, relativity, and the like are difficult for the western mind to comprehend because we have so few metaphors, or “just-like references,” to help us understand. In his 1975 book, The Tao of Physics, Capra alternated his chapters between explanations of Modern Physics and Taoism.
Dr Russell Ackoff, (1919-2009) was widely recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on Systems Thinking. For more than 20 years he was professor of Systems Science at the Wharton School of business, and he was a life long friend of both Peter Drucker and W.E. Deming.
Harrison Owen coined the term and started the movement he calls “Open Space Technology.” It is not unlike what has been called a “Process Control Environment “ in The Sys-Tao Way, and it is the antithesis of what was referred to as a “Command and Control Structure.”
