“We Make the Road by Walking It”
I like how Goodbye, Command and Control mentions self-organizing systems as being a natural manifestation. The phrase that is used in the book is that “organization is a naturally occurring phenomenon” (Wheatley, 2007, p. 66). Nature does have a way of finding balance. Humanity seems to be the only variable to have developed, and therefore sometimes be, an unnatural, aggregate cancer. In my service of encouraging and emboldening holistic health and wellness, homeostasis is a physiological [term] for a relatively stable equilibrium existing between interdependent elements, which, with the Human Services [Ad]ministration savvies that I am gathering here at Antioch, I hope to see being realized “strategic access abundance” (The Zeitgeist Movement 2016), through homeostatic social structures, thereby allowing for creative expressions of free, self-organized ministries to reach their maximum potentials.
Walking in this, what today might be [coined] a Socialist Utopia, self-governance would need to be understanding in uniform principle, but that state of being cannot truly exist in full unless the creation itself becomes the reward for creativity rather than some other requirement [or medium]. For that, individually and collectively, we will have to subdue egoistic tendencies and reform our structural systems more to altruism.
Then, at the crux of Leadership in Tough Times [Being] Spiritual, we can see that shifting from just accepting subject status to having really attained freedom means that we must necessarily leave our [self-designed] comfort zones. After all, “we are being called to encounter life as it is: uncontrollable, unpredictable, messy, surprising, erratic” (Wheatley, 2007, p. 125). That is the calling to bring light to the darkness, a revealing of what is concealed, as above, so below, and we get to share it, if we can just receive it.
Wheatley goes on to say in this section, that, in the new paradigm, “times have led leaders to a spiritual threshold” (p. 126). Every choice each of us makes contributes to the development of life from there onwards and not only for ourselves. This could all be connected to one of the most well-known spiritual teachers, who is commonly called JESUS of Nazareth, although similar archetypes do exist in every culture, saying, “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve [both] God and money” (Matthew 6:24). So, as always, the choice is ours.
“On Becoming a Leader”
Warren Bennis introduces On Becoming a Leader (2009) by acknowledging the fact that empires and economic trends rise and fall, whatever that ideological term might mean for whomever [it does]. From hunting and gathering, to the barter system, to slavery, to the corrupt usury of fractional-reserve banking that we can see disintegrating, and now, we are on to the next choice frontiers.
Where does this leave today’s leaders? “Nothing about the world today is simpler than it was or slower than it was, which makes the ability to collaborate and facilitate great collaboration more vital than ever” (Bennis, 2009, loc. 235). Let each contribute as their heart prompts them. Bennis then goes on to mention that leaders need to have “a distinctive voice” (Bennis, 2009, loc. 271). For, where there is no vision, [the] people perish [Proverbs 29:18, KJV].
So, how might collaboration become simplified, more commonplace, and what type of distinctions could [a] voice make so not to seem as overbearing? A few of the descriptions Bennis mentions are a just and sure causes, like an healthy Emotional Intelligence that is fit for inspiring others, having integrity, and finally, competence, also called ‘an adaptive capacity’ (Bennis, 2009, loc. 261, 271). Bennis says that “it is not enough for a leader to do things right; he must do the right thing” (Bennis, 2009, p. 25). So, the lesson we can receive in this section from Ed is that “everything is in motion” (Ibid. p. 7), everything matters, and we should choose wisely so to be prepared for the tides of change, and to put it simply, behave. This foundation of leadership should define our roles, filtering our perception between what we are and what we should be. What is projected from that vision onto wherever it can best be applied must be learned, and, for leaders, we must teach ourselves (Ibid. p. 52) and it is only natural.
References
Bennis, Warren (2009). On Becoming a Leader. Basic Books. Kindle Edition. Acquired from AMAZON.COM
Wheatley, Margaret J. (2007). Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time. Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Kindle Edition. Acquired from AMAZON.COM
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