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Leading from the Future As It Emerges
17th Annual Pegasus Conference
November 5, 2007, Seattle
C. Otto Scharmer
MIT
Presencing Institute
www.presencing.com
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2. “The success of an intervention
depends on the interior condition
of the intervenor.”
William O’Brien, former CEO of
the Hanover Insurance Company
The Blind Spot of Leadership
3. Source:
Who
Blind Spot: Inner place
from that we operate
Process:
How
Results:
What
Blank
Canvas
Process of
Painting
Completed
Painting
The Blind Spot of Leadership
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I-in-me
I-in-it
I-in-you
I-in-now
Listening 1:
Downloading
Listening 2:
Factual
Listening 3:
Empathic
Listening 4:
Generative
Attending from your open mind
Seeing new/disconfirming data
Understanding technical complexity
Attending from your open heart
Seeing through the eyes of another
Understanding social complexity
Attending from the patterns of the past
Reconfirming what we know
Stuck in your own prison
Attending from Source (open will)
Seeing from emerging futures
Understanding emerging complextiy
5. Two Sources of Learning, Two Learning Cycles
A. Learning by reflecting on the experiences of the past
act - observe - reflect - plan - act
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B. Learning from the future as it emerges (presencing)
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The U Process of Presencing in A Nutshell
12. suspending
redirecting
letting-go
Open
Will
Open
Heart
Open
Mind
Seeing
with fresh eyes
Sensing
from the field
Prototyping:
co-create strategic microcosm
Crystallizing
vision and intention
embodying
enacting
letting-come
Performing:
achieve results through
practices, infrastructures
Access
Your...
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VOC
VOJ
VOF
Downloading
patterns of the past
Who is my Self?
What is my Work?
Presencing
connecting to Source
Places and practices
of observation
Places and practices of stillness
Places & practices
of prototyping
13. Downloading:
Talking nice,
politeness
rule-reenacting
Debate:
Talking tough
rule-revealing
Listening 1:
Downloading
habits of thought
Listening 2:
Factual,
object-focused
Listening 3:
Empathic
listening
Listening 4:
Generative
listening
Centralized:
Machine
bureaucracy
Decentralized:
divisionalized
Networked
relational
Ecosystem
Ba
Micro:
THINKING
/LISTENING
Meso:
CONVERSING
/LANGUAGING
Macro:
ORGANIZING
/STRUCTURING
Mundo:
Mechanism of
COORDINATING
Hierarchy:
Central plan
Market:
competition
Dialogue:
(mutual
adjustment)
Collective
Presence:
Seeing from
the emerging Wh
Dialogue
inquiry
rule-reflecting
Presencing:
Collective
creativity, flow
rule-generating
Field 1:
Operating from
the old me-world
Field 2:
Operating from the
current it-world
Field 3:
Operating from the
current you-world
Field 4:
Operating from
the highest future
possiblity that Is
wanting to emerge
Field
Structure of
Attention
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VOC
VOJ
VOF
1. Co-initiating: uncover common intent
stop and listen to others and to
what life calls you to do
2. Co-sensing: observe, observe, observe
go to the places of most potential and
listen with your mind and heart wide open
3. Presencing: connect to the source of inspiration and will
go to the place of silence and allow
the inner knowing to emerge
4. Co-creating: prototype the new
in living examples to explore the
future by doing
5. Co-evolving: embody the new in
ecosystems that facilitate seeing and
acting from the whole
15. suspending
deep dive
letting-go
Open
Will
Open
Heart
Open
Mind
2. Observing:
Attend with Your
Wide Open Mind
3. Sensing:
Connect with
Your Heart
6. Prototyping:
Integrate Head,
Heart, Hand
5. Crystallizing:
Access the
Power of Intention
embodying
enacting
letting-come
Who is my Self?
What is my Work?
4. Presencing:
Connect to the Deepest Source
of Your Self and Will
7. Performing:
Play the
“Macro Violin”
1. Holding the Space:
Listen to What Life
Calls You to Do
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Resources and Literature:
Scharmer, C. Otto (2007).
Theory U: Leading from the Emerging Future As It Emerges. The Social Technology of
Presencing), Cambridge, MA: SoL Press.
Senge, P., C. O. Scharmer, J. Jaworski, and B. S. Flowers. (2004).
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, Cambridge, MA: SoL Press.
Scharmer, C.O. (2001). Self-transcending knowledge: Sensing and Organizing Around
Emerging Opportunities. In: Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 5, no. 2: 137–
150.
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