Hello Harold!

Sharing some synchronicity... I was doing some reading on leadership/complexity this weekend and came across this quote by Meg Wheatley. It connects to your bit about "perhaps we have been focused at the wrong level"...

"That thinking led me to a more populist position than I had ever held before. I gave up on the idea of change led by senior executives. I started looking for people inside the organization who were interested in change, encouraging them to do what they could, but not to wait for people at the top — to just act within their own domain. I believe there’s still a possibility of creating beneficial results on these “islands of hope” within the larger companies."

When I saw Meg speak last fall she showed the Berkana two loops model, and described how much of her current work is with the "walk outs" within the existing systems. That really resonated with me... there are folks who are activists within their current system; ones who haven't walked out completely, but are trying to create - not tweak - from the inside.

Find the doers - or in Berkana's languages - name, connect, nourish and illuminate - and keep us posted on those enlightened executives you find!