Declared ‘Critically In-Sane’

Posted on 15. Apr, 2012 by in * Leadership Ecology, * Social Mythology, **

I’ve just been declared ‘critically in-sane’ by the authorities. So you can disavow anything I say or do, as it is merely a fig-newton of my delirious irrational in-sanity-iation. You can visit me. I’ll be in padded cell # 13 talking through steel-secured cement walls to other cuckoo’s who got nested here before me. You more »

When Something New Needs to be Said – Watch Out for the Platitude Beast!

Posted on 08. Apr, 2012 by in * Leadership Ecology, * Social Mythology

Ask me why I posted this. Do you know? What comes to mind? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DANGER!!! Platitude beasties in the area …. When something ‘new’ needs to be said …. Watch out for the Platitude beasties hiding behind rocks! DEFINITION platitude |ˈplatiˌt(y)oōd| noun a remark or statement, esp. one with a moral content, that has been more »

Using Fractal Mapping To Build Organizational Inductive Performance

Posted on 01. Apr, 2012 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning, * Sustainable Innovation

The below map sketches out an applicable model for deepening the capacity, value, and intelligence of an organization’s performance. It’s impact suggests that non-productivity, or inductive activities are aspects of a company’s behavior that should be nurtured rather than exterminated. Similar to the model for energy, which has both electric and magnetic characteristics, so too more »

The Art of Authentic Leadership

Posted on 20. Dec, 2011 by in * 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 * 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 * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology

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 * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology

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 * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology

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 * Leadership Ecology, * Sustainable Innovation

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 * 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 * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology

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 * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * 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 * Leadership Ecology, * Sustainable Innovation

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 »

Innovation and the future of socialism and capitalism

Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Sustainable Innovation

“You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it”, says an economics professor at a local college. He made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an ENTIRE class. That class had insisted that Obama’s socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be more »

"Be The Change!" – 7 Steps To Manifestation

Posted on 01. Aug, 2009 by in * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning, **

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” Join “Be The Change!” Twibes Twitter Group /// Participate in the “Be The Change!” Dialogue Project Join One Of Our Discovery Communities At The Bottom Of This Page Mohandas Gandhi’s quote above is powerful, isn’t it? Being the change requires that we embody change itself. more »

Creating a Technology Council

Posted on 23. Jul, 2009 by in * Leadership Ecology, **

Creating A Technology Council (draft)

Is Sustainable Commerce an Oxymoron?

Posted on 09. Jul, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Sustainable Innovation

Being sustainable has everything to do with being innovative. In fact, it is beginning to generate the next generation of creative products and services on (and for) this planet. Yet, with all of our amazing efforts, something seems to be drastically missing. There’s a BIG BLACK HOLE that the subject of sustainable commerce seems to more »

Building A Learning Organisation

Posted on 27. May, 2009 by in * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning

A learning organisation is an organisation that learns and encourages learning among its people. It promotes exchange of information between employees, hence creating a more knowledgeable workforce. This produces a very flexible organisation where people will accept and adapt to new ideas and change through shared vision.It is said that the only constant in life more »

Collective Intelligence and Collective Wisdom

Posted on 26. May, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology, * Organizational Learning

“Change” has been the big topic of conversation for some time now. For the most part, the change that everyone writes about and talks about is economic change. There has been much written about the change from a manufacturing economy to a service economy and there has been much written about the movement of manufacturing more »

The 'WE' Part Hasn't Worked Because 'YOU' Are Making 'R'ational Decisions

Posted on 13. Feb, 2009 by in * Collaborative Design, * Leadership Ecology

I watched ‘The Colbert Report’ recently (see below video). He had this guy on named Jonah Lehrer who wrote the book “How We Decide”. Ohhhhh, we are so fooled by our own rational mind. You know, that tough guy part of us who thinks its in control when instead its his sister, the emotional/intuitive part more »

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