An Emerging
Leadership Philosophy
For nearly 500 years, the word “legacy” was used exclusively as a noun to signify a “gift” or “bequest” transmitted from one generation to another. The noun, legacy, carries a wholly positive meaning and represents an act of love, charity and care.
Two of these three stances are about you: Are you in it for the money? Are you in it to get ahead? Or are you in it to serve someone?
How will you measure your life? How can you know your life’s purpose? These are not questions that are easily answered.
Which came first: The concept or the details? It is easier for us to understand things when we are first presented with a concept and then supplied with details that allow us to better understand or improve the concept. It is as if “new information” has to somehow attach itself to something we already know in order for us to make sense of it.
Learning is selective. When we experience life we naturally level, sharpen, and assimilate what we perceive into a story. It becomes our story. We level out what does not make sense to our existing view, we sharpen up what makes more sense, and we assimilate it into a story – an improved perception of the truth.
When it comes to Systems thinking, most westerners are more comfortable with the “analysis” of the parts than with the “synthesis” of the whole. The opposite seems to be the case with most eastern cultures. Why is this true?
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.
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.”