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Nora Bateson — The Paradox of Agency
- A common question right now is, "where are the leaders of today?"
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- By changing our relationships to institutions, we alter the relationships between these institutions.
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- Leadership qualities depend on a person's contexts: their history, culture, religion, family, etc.
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- Believing that there is someone else to blame for the problems that we face is part of how we created these problems in the first place.
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- We now need to understand leadership through the lens of interdependency.
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- "Mutual learning is only possible when all participants are willing to be wrong..."
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- We are all entangled in systems that both ensure our survival and destruction. The responsibilities that we place on institutions, such as big oil, big banks, big pharma, etc., does not lie within these institutions but within the linkings between them. "An institution is made of people, each with their own biographies, and it exists within communi... See more
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- "... leadership is produced collectively in the community, not the individual. The individual’s responsibility is to be ready and willing to show up, serve, and then, most importantly, stand back. Leadership for this era is not a role or a set of traits; it’s a zone of interrelational process. Step in, step out."
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- "We may learn more about leadership if we study it as an entrustment of context, and not as a twinkle bestowed upon a few select individuals from the heavens above."
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