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If You Till It, They Will Come
This document discusses nurturing collective leadership by creating the conditions for it to emerge. It emphasizes increasing complexity in problems requires tapping collective wisdom. It recommends organizing stakeholders, issuing invitations, developing shared narratives, and imagining thriving systems to cultivate shared leadership. Social technologies like open dialogue and sociocratic principles can facilitate distributed networks and engagement of the whole system.
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If You Till It, They Will Come
- 1. If You TillIt, They Will Come: Nurturing Collective Leadership CURTIS OGDEN / GIBRAN RIVERA
- 2. When we getout of the glass bottles of our own ego, and when we escape like squirrels from turning in the Escape cages of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper. -D.H. LAW RENCE
- 3. IISC is anonprofit organization that works for social justice and sustainability. We ignite the power of collaboration by building leadership capacity, fostering connectivity, and facilitating concerted action. IISC provides consulting, facilitation, network building, leadership development, and training services so that our clients can innovate, think strategically and take vision to action. www.interactioninstitute.org
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- 8. Complexity It is lesslikely that a single individual will come up with a single answer. It is necessary to tap the wisdom, intelligence, greater capacity of the collective.
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- 11. Distributed Networks Rather thanhaving everyone in the same place and having everyone say something then and there, we can create more distributed (small world reach) situations, where different leaders emerge over time.
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- 14. Systems vs. Individuals Weoften approach systemic problems and try to resolve these as individuals. We need to think about what we can do engage more of the system to resolve complex issues. Otherwise we experience the futility of our narrow views and efforts.
- 15. What Brings You Here Today?
- 16. Where we’re comingfrom TECHNOLOGY ONTOLOGY COSMOLOGY EPISTEMOLOGY
- 17. Epistemology Holistic ways ofknowing/being (mind, body, emotion)
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- 19. Ontology Human being andbecoming (development)
- 20. Technology/Methodology “Gardening” – withintentionality creating the conditions for collective leadership to emerge, while humbly acknowledging that we cannot predict everything that will ensue.
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- 29. Identifying Stakeholders Who isresponsible for key decisions? Who might block what we are trying to do? Who has relevant expertise or information? Who are the implementers of key decisions? Who will be affected by what we are trying to do? Who will need to be informed about our outcomes?
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- 31. P H O T O : C H R I S I N P L Y M O U T H
- 32. High Threshold Invitation Invitationis the call to create an alternative future. What is the invitation we can make to support people to participate and own the relationships, tasks, and process that lead to success? Be specific and provide some hurdles. – Peter Block “I want you to leave your interests at the door. Because we’re not solving a problem, you don’t have to represent your constituency; you just have to show up and make contact.”
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- 41. Imaging How do livingsystems actually work? What do they look like when they are thriving? What would this system look like if it were thriving? “For all of those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we re-build resilience.” – The Transition Handbook
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- 44. Storytelling – Active listening –Public narrative (Marshall Ganz) – Rich Pictures - pictorial storytelling (Peter Checkland)
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- 54. Design Principles Adaptability Emergence Contribution Resiliency Diversity
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- 57. Resources Connect onTwitter: @GibranX and @curtisogden www.interactioninstitute.org/blog www.interactioninstitute.org/workshops Fritjof Capra - The Hidden Connections Carol Sanford’s blog www.carolsanford.com John Hagel’s blog www.edgeperspectives.typepad.com Peter Block - Community: The Structure of Belonging http://systems.open.ac.uk/materials/T552 (Rich Picture) Berkana Institute - “The Art of Hosting” (social technology) Clay Shirky - Here Comes Everybody (social media) www.sociocracy.info (Dynamic Governance)