Charles Handy on Qualities of Vision and Leadership - What does he sees when he looks under the stairs?

Charles Handy on Qualities of Vision and Leadership

What does he sees when he looks under the stairs?

1-Why do we always assume that growth means more?

Apart from the universe, there is nothing that has unchecked growth

Nothing grows forever - It can't happen

Maybe consumerism is the new cancer of society

Growth does not need to be made of more of anything... but to be different instead

What "different" will that be?

If anything "more", what "more" means?

2- The new need or demand for proper selfishness - or respectful individualism

Employees more and more feel

Employees say they are ready to sabotage their organisation

There is unhappiness

There is aspiration for opting for the portfolio life

Portfolio life: you cannot complain - you are responsible

Don't pretend to yourself

Don't pretend to your people

The greatest gift you can give to anyone is to give them a degree of self-esteem

Can you as a leader take a risk with anybody?

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Left brain-right brain - intertwined, interconnected and interdependent

From: clinton
Date: Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:23 PM
Subject: Left brain-right brain

Joo Hock,

Thought I’ll dwell further on the left brain-right brain discussion we had yesterday.
Yes, agree that the left brain is viewed essentially as the logical side and the right brain, the creative side.
This is primarily due to the properties found on each side:

Left Brain                        Right Brain

Logic                               Imagination
Word                              Colour
Sequence                        Dimension
Analysis                          Spatial Awareness
List                                  Synthesis
Number                           Rhythm
Pattern                            Daydreaming

Through habit of usage, people tend to be left brain or right brain DOMINANT and hence we tend to label someone a left or right brainer

In practice however, all the properties are intertwined, interconnected and interdependent as the left and right brain are connected via our corpus collasum, which shuttles information, criss-crossing both sides all the time, depending on usage as one learns, thinks and create.

The more properties from both sides are engaged, the better, more wholesome is the solution to challenges likely to be.

An architect would have used just about all his 14 left and right brain properties in designing a building.

So labelling the right brain as the creative side or the creative brain is a misnomer.

Your creative brain is your whole brain!

You are wired to be a genius!

So use more of both sides. And engage the 100 Billion neurons that each of us was born with.

You may want to share this info with the Bucky Group.
Cheers,
Clinton

Intuitive mind / rational mind - Servant and master

Here I am sharing an interesting point / fundamental distinction /powerful directions shared by our friend Joo Hock - as part of his Bucky's group activities: see below.

 I may not need to add anything except - as I am thinking about it - that the mind is a powerful tool - a tool "out of this world", a gift to humanity in a way, something that sets us apart - not so much because we are so great but because it gives us a special power: power of choice, power of discernment, power of intelligible perception, power of intelligence somehow. 

I like to think that intelligence comes in various form. Harvard Howard Gardner talks of multiple intelligence. There is one intelligence that has always been very dear to me and it is what I call Heart intelligence - it is a connective, integrative, inclusive form of intelligence and it is governed by the heart. Whereas rational, analytical, brain-based intelligence is more divisive, specialization-focused. I guess I will continue to explore this field.... Kindly contribute if you feel like....Cheerios to All :-)
from Joo Hock email (11/11/2011): Dear Friends and Fellow Buckians,
Last Sat. we listen to a talk by Iain McGilchrist on the Divided Brain. Interesting. Because I use to think that Right Brainers are Creative people, Artistic types, and that the Left Brainers are Logical, the Science types.
McGilchrist pointed that while the Left brain focusses, the Right Brain keeps a lookout at the Big Picture. So though one may be Right dominant or Left dominant, actually the two hemispheres of Brain they work together.
At the end of his Talk, McGilchrist pointed out that Einstein shared that the Intuitve Mind is a Sacred Gift, the Rational Mind is a Faithful Servant. Hmmm... Interesting Perspectives.

Think "Design" - Think "Tools" - Buckminster Fuller

Another follow-up by Joo Hock to Dr. DeBono's Talk on thinking posted on OIA.

De Bono talked about Design thinking.

In parallel with this idea, Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller, who called himself a CADS, (Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist) talked about "redesigning" our environment in order to change human behavior in preferred ways, for the betterment of total humanity. In other words, instead of trying to reform man, Bucky preferred to "new" form the environment through Design Science Revolution (DSR), rather than watch mankind resort to bloody revolutions.

And DSR is Tools or Artefact Invention, doing more with less, via technology, thus upping the performance of our resources, creating real life-support Wealth.

DSR requires creativity and innovation.

So if you want to learn how to think like Buckminster Fuller?
Think Tools,
Think Artifact Invention.

What can you invent?
Or re-invent? (many years ago I had a friend who say "don't try to re-invent the wheel"? Good thing I didn't take him seriously) Go ahead re-invent the wheel. You might come out with a better wheel, and if not, you would have re-invented yourself, while trying.

So what IS Experience?

I'd like to share a Poem from my book, "What I feel like saying?"

Because I often asked myself, "so what am I experiencing?" as our lives, who we are may be perceived as a Bundle of Experiences. And Buckminster Fuller linked being in Integrity to speaking, from Experience. He had also defined Universe in terms of Humanity's Experiences.

My poem is entitled:

"What is Experience?"

A nerve-wrecking
roller-coaster ride
getting goose-bumps
listening to ghost stories
in a dark and stromy night
Dunking yourself
in the waterfall's icy bite
Being bruised and battered
in an ego fight
raindrops drumming loudly
on Moonriver Lodge's tin roof
with all their might
(and I might add)
You'll be listened to
as you are in Integrity tonight!

composed by Joo Hock

Joo Hock on Perspectives can be very empowering

Wow! Edward de Bono posted on OIA's blog. Wonderful. DeBono's is one of those authors whose books I've been reading and recommending to my friends, but some of them tell me that DeBono put them to sleep, hmmm... I'm surprised and I wonder why? Perhaps his style is "dry," but he's substance.

Because I do find that he's really good. What he shares make good sense, especially in the field of creative thinking, lateral thinking, in fact DeBono coined the term lateral thinking, brilliant guy.

De Bono shared that perception is more important than logic.

Nicholas Negroponte (of MIT) said: Most engineering deadlocks are not solve by engineers. Why? Because Perception is more important than IQ!!

I found that his thoughts on thinking parallels Buckminster Fullers practices on thinking.

How so?

Well, Buckminster Fuller (Bucky) saw "things' at many level of perspectives, or put in another way, he has many ways of perceiving a thing.

Take a human being. He described us as a 28 Jointed Biped. Then an Astronaut on Board Spaceship Earth, then subsequently a Unique Behavioral Pattern Integrity.

Now how many other ways can you perceive or describe yourself?

1. A human be....
2. A Spir.... be....
3. A bundle of prog....
4. A bundle of exper.......
5. A cybo...
6. A transcei....
7. A Ver...
8. An Evolut...... Pro....
9. A Func.... of Uni.......
10. As Syntr......
11. As Min..
12. An ener.... eve...
More? What could you add?

Now all these newer ways of seeing ourselves is lateral thinking, for me at least.

But so what?
Well it's very empowering. When we see ourselves differently, we will think differently, and we can do differently.

Otherwise if we keep seeing the same way, well we continue doing the same things. Talk about insanity Ha Ha!

Reminds me of Eliyahu M. Goldratt's TOC (Theory of Constraints) In order to remove the bottleneck, sometimes it's not the physical contraints, it's the policies, the mindset, or the perception, the perspective that has to change.

Edward de Bono on creative thinking and perceptual thinking vs judgemtat and design thinking

Judgment is concerned about the truth (ref the gang of 3 )

Design thinking is constructive not judgemental, it creates values

It is about making things work