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      Here are some resources available to us all, 
                     for enhancing organizational intelligences


GETTING STUFF DONE  INTEGRAL STYLE

by Ginny Whitelaw, on Integral Post May 22, 2013
http://integrallife.com/integral-post/how-get-stuff-done-integral-style

This extraordinary article contains 3rd order learning instructions for a 2nd order learning skill: sensing the timing of actions in leading an organization (or doing anything!)

Here are some excerpts to whet your interest:

...you can exert a great deal of effort and get very little accomplished. Why?  Because you’re not working with the natural dynamics of the system....


This is the principle of driving rhythm: sense and match the rhythm of the system you’re working with, and time your actions to drive it toward progress. 
...This may seem easy enough, but I watch so many highly driven leaders miss the rhythm of their markets or their organizations, and drive themselves and others to exhaustion. At the other extreme, I see so many visionary leaders who can sense the whole picture, but don’t see how to drive it: they can’t get from here to there...

...we comprise and can express a complete answer to these partial extremes through 4 energy patterns that make up our personality. From their names alone you get an idea of their functioning: Driver, Organizer, Collaborator, and Visionary. Our Visionary connectedness to the big picture is a good source of insight for what future is worth creating. Once we have that insight, our Driver provides the push and sense of urgency to start making it happen. Our Organizer can break down the whole journey into logical steps in a natural order that either we can do or delegate. And our Collaborator has the sense of rhythm to know when to make our moves, matching the people and larger forces around us....

[And she offers three specific exercises to increase one's ability to sense the rhythm of the system one is concerned with.]


...The beauty of driving rhythm for getting stuff done is that you don’t have to figure it all out ahead of time. You drive and listen, push on the system and see how it responds, sense if you’re building momentum or losing steam and adjust accordingly.  What it’s not is drive, drive, drive, drive, drive.  Neither is it sit back and hope. Driving rhythm combines the power to act with the sensitivity to act wisely. Using the 4 patterns and honing your visceral sensitivity to the rhythm of all things, you can get stuff done — Integral style. And in the largest sense, the boundary of self and other falls away, you become the whole picture and driving rhythm is none other than the beat of your own heart played on the drum of the world. ...
About the author: Dr. Ginny Whitelaw is a leadership expert and Zen master in the Chozen-ji line of Rinzai Zen.  She is the author of The Zen Leader, President of Focus Leadership, and founder of the Institute for Zen Leadership. 

This is an absolutely extraordinary and exciting discussion of intelligences and learning for groups, communities, human eco-systems, and the planet. Including Collective Emergent Intelligence and evolution of consciousness.

By George Por, July, 2013

http://cielcolab.com/docs/augmenting-the-collective-intelligence-of-the-ecosystem-of-systems-communities/



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