Sublime

When strategic decisions need to be made, the perspectives of frontline people are considered.

Other influences on my thinking were the work of the avant-garde artist Joseph Beuys, and the writings of Henry David Thoreau, Martin Buber, Friedrich Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Jürgen Habermas, as well as some of the old masters like Hegel, Fichte, Aristotle, and Plato.

Parker Palmer’s Center for Courage & Renewal (CC&R) has explored how to integrate storytelling into organizational life. The nonprofit center creates soulful retreats to help teachers, doctors, clergy, and business leaders reconnect with their vocation and reunite role and soul.

Ancestors.

For people operating from this perspective, relationships are valued above outcomes.

include any elements which are at least partly under your influence: if you can change the relationship of your company with suppliers, seeing that element as part of a vicious cycle may lead to insights about how you can influence the whole system.

An organizational system takes on a life of its own, selecting, rewarding, and absorbing members into it who then perpetuate the system.

This model for individual human development ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation, a way of progressing from our current egocentric societies (materialistic, anthropocentric, competition based, class stratified, violence prone, and unsustainable) to soulcentric ones (imaginative, ecocentric, cooperation based, just, compassionate