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

[Sharon Fisher]

James Addington, these marks of the Locus of Leadership are transforming.
How have you seen or do you suggest communities use these marks? Clearly, I
can see it as a helpful screen to evaluate leadership action. How else do
you see it used?

Thanks,
Sharon Fisher

On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 1:46 PM James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
wrote:

> 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:
>
> 
> 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)  *
>
> Cultivating a *rigorous reality orientati*on: this includes affirming
> ambiguity, being willing to live with questions, and always asking, “what
> is the real situation and how do we know?”
>
> 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.
>
> Speaking *truth to powe*r – calling power into accountability; This mark
> indicates solidarity with the oppressed and the resolve to be and live in
> accountable solidarity.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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)*.
>
> © R. James Addington, *MAL*
> July 2024
> Use with attribution
>
>
>
>
>
> On 07/21/2024 6:25 PM PDT James Wiegel via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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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