Integral leadership
spiraling in the colors
The power of paradigms
When you keep managing the way you’ve always done,
you get what you’ve always had.
• System: leading instead of
managing
– Rules
– Meaning
• attractor
– Design of focus =
ENERGY
Living at the edge..
1500 g miracle.; neurons: 1 (+ million 0); 60 billion synapses; speed:
1 sec. Clock time = 100 years brain activity; number of activities /
sec.: 1 + 25 km of zeroes !!).
Yet the immense possibilities
are limited by education,
experiences, fears & anxieties.
Learning & repetition & conditions create
Routines; focal points that direct our
view and interpretation of the world &
ENERGY : the paradigm.
New circumstances are rationalized, data ignored and
thus may create a reactive attitude until.....
New values are adopted and a wider consciousness
is recognized. Higher up in Spiral DYNAMICS..
Freedom to create
Shifting the paradigm
anticipate
Innovate
excell
Problemsolving
Create
opportunities
reactive
Focus wheel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=NL&hl=nl&v=OORnMYoWX9c
Out of flatland...
Interior:
I
I & the others:
WE cultural fit
BEHAVIORAL:
exterior
Social System;
functional fit
organization
Four angles: creative leadership
truthfulness
truth
fittingness
functionality
When a paradigm changes
Everyone starts at ZERO
And ZERO comprises all numbers and....
possibilities
Building blocks of human aspiration are
the elements of individual imagination
Spiral DYNAMICS
holarchy
hierarchy
heterarchy
Consciousness determines organization
YELLOW
2nd tier
Comprises all levels
below
HOLONS
Ken Wilber; SDintegral
Types of leadership in SD
Inspirator
Team leader
Guru
Authority
Entrepreneur Supervisor
Authoritarian structures
Law & order vMeme;
Stability and meaningful life;
be loyal & follow the leader
Not for then against...
Dominion Powerful vMeme; Strength and
action; react impulsive. Understand how
power works; protect your own
Egocentric and exploitative
Message RED
& BLUE
And don’t forget ..
Thou shalt be
creative
Don’t change i.e. Must fit within
present organization
corporate strategy
present mission
budget for long term
Job descriptions
Labor contracts
Reports or declarations need approval
Career is planned (i.e. We know your future?)
Synergy through the focus - strange attractor
Linux
Wikipedia
IDEO
Semco
Google
Spiral indicates (im)possibilities of organization
Instead of imposing an identity on Semco,
I let it be given shape by our employees through
their individual exertions, interests and initiatives.
R. Semler
Systemic thinking Flexible vMeme
Quality and responsibilities of
existence. Informational & integrative;
Worldcentric (postconventional)
Social network Community vMeme
Live in harmony and equality
Relativistic and sociocentric
(conventional)
Strategic enterprise Goal oriented vMeme
Success, creativity and autonomy.
Materialistic and competitive
But most important is that success is not
only measured in terms of profit and
growth.
Ricardo Semler (in Weekend of 7 days)
Quality = enthusiasm x expertise