“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive”
-Harold Whitman
Connecting Leaders To Each Other
New-order leaders benefit from connecting with each other. In fact, it is essential, in order to;
- Challenge our thinking further
- Affirm a new approach to leadership
- Find support among like-spirited leaders
- Learn and grow
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Connecting Leaders To Excellence
Leadership excellence is demanded of all of us. To be all we can be, achieving our greatest potential.
What practices do you maintain to achieve personal excellence?
Here are some ideas and websites to explore:
www.solonline.org Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), is an intentional learning community composed of organizations, individuals, and local SoL communities around the world. SoL is devoted to the interdependent development of people and their institutions in service of inspired performance and meaningful results. SoL serves as a space in which individuals and institutions can create together that which they cannot create alone.
www.garyhamel.com The Wall Street Journal recently ranked Gary Hamel as the world's most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him "the world's leading expert on business strategy."
www.community.presencing.com The PI community focuses to refine and co-create the presencing technology for change makers, innovators, and communities around the world
www.theworldcafe.com The World Café is an innovative yet simple methodology for hosting conversations about questions that matter. These conversations link and build on each other as people move between groups, cross-pollinate ideas, and discover new insights into the questions or issues that are most important in their life, work, or community. As a process, the World Café can evoke and make visible the collective intelligence of any group, thus increasing people’s capacity for effective action in pursuit of common aims.
www.theelders.org The Elders are an independent group of eminent global leaders, brought together by Nelson Mandela, who offer their collective influence and experience to support peace building, help address major causes of human suffering and promote the shared interests of humanity.
Connecting Leaders to Community
How do we make time and space for connection to community? By being intentional. Focus on what you want to create:
- Within yourself
- Within your company
- Within your family and community
- Within your world
All change, whether it is in your office or the world, begins with self. And with being intentional about what you are creating.
As we focus, we become more conscious of where we are freely choosing and where we are being operated by the culture, moving unconsciously and automatically with the flow of the culture around us.
By becoming conscious, we increase:
- our knowledge of ourselves
- our sense of possibilities
- our options for our work and lives
- our connectedness.
With connectedness to our values, our selves, others, nature and our mission, we make better decisions and become role models for others. This is a huge contribution to the people we lead and to the world.
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