[Oe List ...] Our Future --- as it so happens . . .

[James Wiegel]

Thanks, Jim.  May I share this with the other study group?  A subgroup of us have been exploring the notion of a "truth quest" approach to decision making -- based on some background related to indigenous cultures, particularly the San people in South Africa.  To me it is a bit similar to the approach of "Theory U" -- both of which would seem to have implications not only for decision making but also re:  qualities of leadership.

Thanks for sharing. (And also for doing the work of articulating these marks.  I seem to recall, around the 30th anniversary of ICA in the US a pamphlet describing marks of leadership.
Jim Wiegel
“We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit. “       Stephen Hawking


> On Jul 22, 2024, at 12:56 PM, JAMES ADDINGTON <inarja at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Hi Jim, 
> Here are  some musings re leadership for your study group to chew on. Responses are welcome. 
> The Locus of Leadership: making a way  (six marks)  
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> Cultivating a rigorous reality orientation: this includes affirming ambiguity, being willing to live with questions, and always asking, “what is the real situation and how do we know?”
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> Assuring and ensuring a liveable future – asking “how are the coming generations to live” (Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s query)? This “mark” presumes the importance of the entire biosphere in a liveable future; hence, it might be termed an ecological orientation.
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> Speaking truth to power – calling power into accountability; This mark indicates solidarity with the oppressed and the resolve to be and live in accountable solidarity.
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> Demonstrating and Fostering hopeful engagement – presuming and reinforcing agency, personal and communal; This mark presumes that others have the capacity for decisional responsibility; it also assumes an open future that is, as yet, unformed.
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> Shaping and ensuring viable community – a bias for communal wellbeing. This mark presumes that community is that without which humanity is not; we are a communal species; we do not live simply as god-like individuals bound by a self-serving survival instinct.
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> Cultivating historical memory and imagination (the Sankofa principle– embodying and bringing a sense of history - remythologizing the archaic); This mark underscores the centrality of story – historical narrative – and the importance of social rituals and symbols that rehearse the stories that give meaning to our lives. This is searching for the gems hidden in our past that are relevant to the present moment, and recontextualizing them in ways that illuminate our times. (In West African mythology, the Sankofa bird moves into the future with an eye on the past, searching for the pearls that need be carried into the future – or the eggs that house the yet unborn).
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> © R. James Addington, MAL
> July 2024
> Use with attribution
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>>> On 07/21/2024 6:25 PM PDT James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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>>> Some of you may remember Herman Greene.  I am involved in a "study group" with him and several dozen others looking into what kind of governance we need moving forward in this century with all that it holds.
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>>> Just wondering what thoughts any of you might have about what improvements, innovations, shifts or changes in governance, politics, morals, leadership that might produce better outcomes for all of us?
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>>> Thanks in advance.  
>>> Jim Wiegel
>>> “We are all time travelers journeying into the future. But let us make that future a place we want to visit. “       Stephen Hawking
>>> 
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