A collaborative learning program for leaders in any organization, city, state, country, to further the evolution of how business or any economic activity is conducted.

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Leadership on the Edge
A recipe for Cultural Change though Transformed
Leaders

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It is the best of times, and the worst of times
‘We are facing issues of near-
overwhelming complexity and
unprecedented urgency. Our
challenge is to think globally and
develop policies to counteract
environmental decline and
economic collapse. The question is:
Can we change direction before we
go over the edge?’
~ Lester R. Brown in
World On the Edge: How to Prevent
Environmental and Economic Collapse

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A Burning Platform is one where….
….the cost of the status quo is higher than the cost of change, however
uncertain the change may be

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What is really important to win?
The game?
Or the set?
Or the match?
Or the tournament?

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What kind of Power do we exercise?
Quality of Impact
Longevity
of Impact
Unilateral Power
Diplomatic Power
Logistical Power
Transforming Power

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How do we strive for ‘Success’?
“Don't aim at success--the more you
aim at it and make it (your final) target,
the more you are going to miss it. For
true success, like happiness, cannot be
pursued; it must ensue, and it only
does so as the unintended side effect
of one's personal dedication to a cause
greater than oneself. Listen to what
your conscience commands you to do
and carry it out to the best of your
knowledge.”

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The Invitation
To reexamine how winning,
power and success can
transform not just our
individual lives, but the world
which is burning

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What is Culture?
It is culture that mediates the cosmos to the community, that
mediates the cosmos to the brain, to the soul, to the very depths of
who and what we are…. It mediates the great patterns of archetypal
evolutionary charge to the human social grid of reality. Cultures are
the organs and enzymes of the body of society. Where there is a
culture there is always an open moment, there is always the
availability of ourselves to be coded and gifted from the Deep World.
How often have you listened to a piece of music, done a dance, stood
in awe before a sculpture, and felt the Deep World available to you?
~ Jean Houston
Culture eats Strategy for breakfast
~ Peter Drucker

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Why Cultural Transformation
 The wicked problems besetting our civilization and society today
are too big and too complex to be resolved by individual, heroic
leadership
 Since culture influences individuals and individuals contribute to
culture, any transformation process that does not recognize this
inter-relatedness is bound to eventually fail
 A new cultural narrative is needed that can transcend the paralysis
of polarized thought, to provide the necessary focus and impetus to
create
• A large enough ‘We’ Space that excludes no one
• A time horizon view that does not sabotage the long term to secure the
short
• Depth of understanding before appropriate action is taken

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What are the highest leverage points for Culture change?
Adult Population in any society
(Millions)
Political Power-holders
(Hundreds)
Economic Power-Holders
(Hundreds)
Policy, Governance,
Infrastructure
Livelihood, Exchange
Of value and values
Intention,
Strategy

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What would Initiative ‘Culture Change’ look like?
 Decide on a Bounded Area for the Culture Change Program
(example : a country, a state, a city or any geographically expedient,
bounded space)
 Hand-pick* a set of Political Leaders from that area who can be the
‘Early Adopters’ for cultural transformation
 Hand –pick* a set of Business Leaders from that area who can be the
‘Early Adopters’ for cultural transformation
 Conduct a ‘Program*’ that facilitate the leaders coming together to
• Experientially go through a multi-dimensional mind-body activation
process
• Collaborate and create a new blue print of transformation for their
Bounded Area
* Making these choices assumes a ‘CEO’ or Exec Sponsor for the Bounded Area

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Who needs to participate in the Initiative Formulation?
 The Director/ President of a Top-End Business School
• For event infrastructure and Program fine-tuning
 A Political Leader who sponsors the Initiative and provides support
and guidance
• Magnet for other like-minded leaders to participate in Program
 A Business Leader who sponsors the Initiative and provides support
and guidance
• Magnet for other like-minded leaders to participate in Program
 A Spiritual Teacher who sponsors the Initiative and conducts one
session of the Program (see next slide for Program details)
• Quality of Transmission and Program atmosphere
 A small group of dedicated people for pulling all of the above
together and program management of the same

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What would the Program look like?
 The Program will consist of 2 types of inputs for the participants:
• Knowledge inputs – Inputs which seek to increase and skill,
competency and comprehension capacity base of the participants and
make them more effective as leaders
• Wisdom inputs – Inputs which seek to deepen and widen the way they
view, make meaning and respond to moment-to-moment reality, and
help them find their own answers to problems in their personal and
professional lives
 The curriculum will be delivered over 13 weeks, with one session of
2-3 hours per month, as thus completed within 1 calendar year

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What would the Program look like?
 In the month –long gap between 2 sessions, participants will be:
• Sent some relevant content for their study and enjoyment, as a recap of
past sessions and preparation for future sessions
• Encouraged to participate in an private online forum where the
collective presence of all participants is expected to
 Deepen their learning experiences from the sessions
 Engage collectively in specific, tangible initiative conceptualization, design
and execution for the organization/ Bounded Area
(As such the online forum will be a living and breathing ‘space’ of
creative incubation of game changing ideas for the Bounded Area,
which will serve as a guide trail for subsequent implementation)

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What is the Program Structure? ( Months 1-6)
Month
No
Subject Source of subject matter
expertise
Target outcomes from session
1 Context setting Various Understanding of Program Purpose
Stated intent for each participant
2 Systems Theory Peter Senge/ Erwin
Lazslo/ Ludwig
Bertalanffy
Appreciation of the 5 disciplines of
Personal mastery, Mental Models,
Shared vision, Team Learning and
Systems Thinking
3 Complexity
Science
Edgar Morin/ Scott
Page/ Santa Fe Institute
Understanding the roles of diversity,
connections, inter-dependence and
adaptation in day-to-day events
4 Integral Operating
System
Ken Wilber / Integral
Institute/ MI
Foundation
A new way to make sense of life and
reality. Greater space for including
everyone and everything.
5 Action Inquiry Bill Torbert/ Suzanne
Cook-Greuter
The three loops of learning, and
understanding the inter-relatedness of
personal development with
organizational development
6 Behavioural
effectiveness
Bill Joiner/ David
Allen/ Dan Ariely
Leadership action logics and key agility
domains for leadership behaviour

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Program Structure Continued (Months 7-13)
Month
No
Subject Source of Subject Matter
Expertise
Target Outcome from Session
7 The Organization
of the Future
Brian Robertson/
Holacracy One
What systems, processes and
governance mechanisms are needed to
reduce friction and bottlenecks
8 Cultural
transformation
Fred Kofman/ Axialent The inter-relatedness of leadership
qualities and organizational culture
9 The Leadership
Manifesto
Brett Thomas
Barrett Brown
‘Horses for Courses’ Leadership,
The Inner Foundation of Leadership
10 Inner Engineering Eastern Traditions with
Western Psycology
Mind-body practices for enhanced
awareness and energy
11 A new memetic
code for life
Andrew Cohen
Michael Dowd
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Understanding the evolutionary
imperative for the 21st century beyond
ourselves and our Bounded Area
12 Statements of
Intent
All participants 10 minute presentations by each
participant
13 Closing All participants The emergent – synthesis of previous
presentations into One coherent vision
for the ‘organization’, and commitments
to action

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Why this Program Schedule and Constituents?
 The subjects have been carefully chosen for a multi-dimensional,
holistic experience of leadership
• Inner and Outer dimensions of reality
• Individual and Collective aspects of the human situation
• Simultaneity of being, knowing and doing
• Exercising the body, the mind, and the heart for a richer enactment of
the Self
• Understanding the dynamic inter-relationships between awareness,
behavior , culture and systems
• Appreciating the multi-faceted and mysterious nature of the universe,
encouraging the acceptance of polarities

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Next Steps
 Identify leaders who would constitute the ‘Steering Committee’ of
the initiative
 Hold a day-long offsite retreat to go deep into the Initiative and the
Program
 Determine the financial and the operational model for execution
 Launch Initiative

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"Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you
desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about
the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to
be, the deeper must be its foundation.“
-St Augustine