The Art of Authentic Leadership

Posted on 20. Dec, 2011 by in 2 Leadership Ecology

How To Become An Authentic Leader By Vic Desotelle Authentic Leadership is for those who choose to ‘BE change’ as the way to ‘SEE change’ ____________________________ Authenticity as Prerequisite for Leadership Today’s growing global problems can not be solved using the same methods that created them in the first place. Thus, we must evolve our more »

The Ecology of Leadership: A Twist on the Idea of Professionalism

Posted on 29. Nov, 2011 by in 2 Leadership Ecology

In our attempt to be ‘professional’, it seems that our society has become afraid of our own human-ness. Have we lost our sense of how to be with each other in the messiness of our humanity? I was reading my LinkedIn Groups this morning and came across Mike Smith’s ‘Life Back West’ thoughts on people, more »

Collaboration "IS" the New Government

Posted on 06. Oct, 2011 by in 2 Leadership Ecology, 3 Collaborative Design

My twine.com webbed a good one today. Although extremely simple, this video triggered a BIG insight for me. Imagine a new definition of government. Rather than provider of fixes, it becomes a convener of ‘we the people’ and we generate our own solutions. This act shifts a STATIC ‘government’ institution into a DYNAMIC ‘governance’ system. more »

Communication: Differentiating Debate, Discussion, & Dialogue

Posted on 05. Sep, 2011 by in 2 Leadership Ecology, 3 Collaborative Design

I have been asked to clarify the difference between ‘debates‘, ‘discussions‘, and ‘dialogues‘ (note wikipedia incorrectly clumps discussion into the same definition as ‘debate’). Below is a first attempt at trying to evolve our understanding of these three primary communication processes. I ask for your feedback, and also for your own insights on this matter. more »

Our Future and the Mistake We Continue to Make

Posted on 30. Jan, 2011 by in 2 Leadership Ecology, 3 Collaborative Design

the mistake we continue to make is about how we learn and make Decisions Taking action on our future is less about ‘what‘ we know and ‘who‘ is in the room, than it is about ‘how‘ we come together to learn. We’ve had this wrong for a long long time. Look at the photo below. more »

Is There an Ecological Unconscious?

Posted on 23. Jul, 2010 by in 1 Sustainable Innovation, 2 Leadership Ecology

I find that this subject is one of the more revealing issues of our time. A place that requires us to reshape our understanding and meaning of ‘environment’. Read this great article on the link between our human psyche and the Earth. +++ By DANIEL B. SMITH Published: January 27, 2010 The terms in which more »

Our Truths Are Based On Internal Beliefs That Are Too Often Wrong

Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by in 2 Leadership Ecology

Here’ an important message to our leaders and decision makers: Assume that your truths and beliefs are an Illusion. . Consider how our brain works … Watch what happens to your belief system as you stare at this image. 1-Follow the moving pink dot: What do you see? 2-Look at the middle black cross. Now more »

The Notion of Right and Wrong … is Wrong

Posted on 07. Jun, 2010 by in 2 Leadership Ecology, 3 Collaborative Design

The primary principle of innovation is this. It is being able to consider and change our ‘notions’; our so-called facts of our experiences; our factual claims; into something new that goes beyond our own individual reality. The statement of this work is at the foundation of collaboration and discovery. He speaks of science and the more »

A Practical Theory On Leadership & Collaboration – ‘The Shirtless Dancing Guy’

Posted on 28. May, 2010 by in 2 Leadership Ecology, 3 Collaborative Design, 4 Organizational Learning

I got this video off of Charles Lemos’ site and was referred to it by Ben Roberts’ Facebook conversation. Derek Sivers gave this presentation at the TED Conference this week and got a standing ovation. It’s pretty brilliant in its takeaway. The video below is a healthy perspective on the collective’s role in leadership, especially more »

The Link Between Ethics and Innovation

Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by in 1 Sustainable Innovation, 2 Leadership Ecology

Ethics to Innovation Article (Download a more readable PDF file) By Vic Desotelle and Michael Kaufman Table of Contents Introduction The Ethics/Innovation Relationship What are Ethics? Forces Creating Managerial Dilemmas (Principle Forces Creating Practical Dilemmas) What is Innovation? Innovative Wholes and Inventive Systems (Fractal Wholes vs Fractured Parts) The Emerging Global Ethic Innovation through Ethical more »

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