For Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer, authors of Leading from the Emerging Future, making the move from silos to wiser ways of organizing means shifting the locus of leadership. Moving leadership from the center to the periphery, from one place to many, requires silos to connect. It is a shift from centralized leadership, to distributed and relational sense-making. It is a transformation of our relationships from ego (I-in-me) to eco (we-in-me.) A wee poem that captures the meaning I made:
I’m in awe of what we know
at the edge, in a mess.
With patience sparking, we lean
into the periphery, growing
the growing Self into the future,
work not to do alone.
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Some friends and I have started a book club to explore Leading from the Emerging Future, Otto Scharmer (Theory U) and Katrin Kaufer’s new book. This is another piece, on Chapter 7. Here’s what came from my exploration of earlier chapters:
- Chapter 1 – Life guard
- Chapter 2 – The antennae of possibility
- Chapter 3 – Prototype social habitats
- Chapter 4 – I’m not a salesperson
- Chapter 5 – Be a vehicle of the future
- Chapter 5 – Offer your Self to your City
- Chapter 6 – Infrastructure for precious communication
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This post begins a series of posts on Chapter 10 – The Emerging City, offering bits of the book I am working on. Here are some plot helpers of Nest City: The Human Drive to Thrive in Cities:
- My decision to share the book while I am working on it
- The overall structure of Nest City’s three parts
- A summary of Part 1 – City Patterns, Concluding City Patterns
- A summary of Part 2 – Organizing for Emergence, Focus, learn and Emerge
- The plot for Part 3 – City Nestworks