4. Addressing four questions today
● Why are new forms of leadership urgently needed?
● What characterizes evolutionary co-leadership?
● Which integral practices enable its embodiment?
● How to develop it and scale it up?
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5. 1. Why are new forms of leadership
urgently needed?
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7. or going through a metamorphosis…
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Chaos
Time
Fitness
Inspired by Itchak Adizes
8. …with emerging forms of leadership
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Chaos
Time
Fitness
Entrepreneurship
Management
Financial
dominance
Aristocracy/
plutocracy
Bureaucracy
Inspired by Itchak Adizes
Disintegration
Co-entrepreneurship
Co-leadership
9. Four domains of human experience
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Interior/Invisible Exterior/Observable
Individual (I)
Collective (We)
(it)
Culture Structures/
systems
Awareness
Interiority
Biology
Behavior
Adapted from Ken Wilber
(its)
10. Two dimensions of evolution
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Interior/Invisible Exterior/Observable
Cultural memes Structures/
systems
Awareness level
Intention
Biology/
Behavior
Interior
Evolution
Exterior
Evolution
I
We
it
its
Inspired by Ken Wilber’s four quadrants
11. What can we learn from evolution?
● Adversity and the “edge of chaos” stimulate evolution
● Life rewards the best combination between individual
creativity and cooperation
● Complexity, diversity, interdependence and self-
organizing capacity increase with evolution
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12. Evolutionists and Evolutionaries
● Evolutionists: are strongly influenced by the
scientific theory of evolution (Darwin and his
followers) – and limited to its externally observable
aspects
● Evolutionaries: appreciate both exterior and interior
aspects; have fully internalized evolution – non only
intellectually but viscerally; are committed
advocates and activists for evolution at both
individual consciousness and cultural levels
12Adapted from Carter Phipps, Evolutionaries, 2012
13. From a domination paradigm…
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Superior/inferior
ranking; scarcity
High degree of fear,
violence, competition
Myths and stories
legitimizing domination,
presenting it as
normal and efficient
Authoritarian and punitive
social structures
Pyramidal hierarchy
Controls
Adapted from The Power of Partnership by Riane Eisler, New World Library, 2002
I
We
it
its
14. The current “polycrisis” is caused by
the prevailing domination paradigm…
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Ill-adapted
education
Financial
“casino”,
hyper-debt
Ecological
threats, pillage
of the planet
Prevailing
domination
paradigm
World hunger,
pandemics,
violence
Widening gap
between rich
and poor;
urban ghettos
Economic
disparities and
instability
Meaning-
lessness,
addictions
Ethnic/
religious
conflicts
Lack of
credibility/
corruption
of leaders
Inspired by Edgar Morin’s La Voie (The Way)
Erosion of
solidarity
15. …to a partnership paradigm
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Equal intrinsic value
Equivalence. Abundance
Mutual trust
Low degree of fear
and violence
Myths and stories
honoring partnership,
presenting it as normal
“Flat” structures
Governance/guidance of
the wise. Self-regulation
Adapted from The Power of Partnership by Riane Eisler, New World Library, 2002
I
We
it
its
16. Organization: from machine… to living system
singularity
innovation
agility projects
Collaborative
Dynamics creativity
openness
Rigidity
Hierarchy
Authority
Bureaucracy
Secret
Status
Formalism
Uniformity
A more complex and fast-changing economy coupled with
new expectations of the younger generations
Adapted from In Principo
Command &
control
communityProcess
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19. Redefining leadership
● Lead comes from the indo-European root “leith” which means
“going forward”, “crossing a threshold” or even “dying”
> A threshold must be crossed so that something new
can emerge
> Letting go of something we think we know or
control can be experienced as death, as stepping into the
unknown
19Inspired by Otto Scharmer
23. An evolutionary
• discerns deep patterns and integrates disciplines that have been
separated, in reflection as in action
• looks at reality with a sense of long, “deep” time
• trusts life’s process and shows a profound faith in the future
• experiences self as co-creating and being co-responsible for
evolution
23Adapted from Carter Phipps, Evolutionaries, 2012
25. Evolutionary Co-leadership:
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● Evolutionary Co-leadership is practiced among leaders who
regard each other and behave as co-creative and co-responsible
partners – in service of the the common good
● They assume flexible, rotating, or joint leadership – according to
what is perceived and required
● They feel no personal need to stand out or to impose their views
● They cultivate the ability to know or sense what needs to be said
or done by contributing their unique gifts and tapping into
collective wisdom
Inspired by Collective Leadership Institute
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Co-leadership development practices
span the four quadrants
Subjective/Invisible Objective/Observable
Individual (I)
Collective (we)
(it)Personal Practices
(its)
Interpersonal
practices
(Meta)systemic practices
Inspired by Ken Wilber’s four quadrants
34. To learn more and go further
● Read:
Evolutionary coaching by Richard Barrett
Evolutionary leadership by Peter Merry
Evolutionaries by Carter Phipps
● Consult: www.coreleadership.com
● Contact: alaingauthier@coreleadership.com
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