Think of your closest relationships with family and significant others, friends and co-workers. Are those relationships an imposed framework over which you have no control or does your presence in the relationship actually modify and influence the framework?
What if we considered a large organization as if it were a single organism, or -- to extend the framework analogy -- as a set of interdependent relationships? What would that mean when we joined that organization? Could we claim that its culture, habits, vision and even aspirations do not, to some extent, become our own?
Now, what if that large organization were an entire country or the entire world?
Over the next two weeks we hope to explore what that might mean and how we can "become the change we hope to see."
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Everything about Theory U makes intuitive sense. At the same time it seems revolutionary. Why?
ReplyDeleteWhy do we still think as though we were living in the 19th century? Why do institutions (think education) get stuck? Is there something in human nature that precludes the capacity for Presencing? Is there a distinct difference between what we're able to THINK and what we're able to DO? Is it just too big a job to turn institutions on their respective heads? Then again, maybe the collapse of Wall Street is the first big move from which future tremors will be felt.
What does it mean to think in the emerging future?