Source: The Inner Path of Knowledge Creation - Hardcover

Jaworski, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576759040 ISBN 13: 9781576759042

Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2012

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As he did in his classic Synchronicity, Joseph Jaworski once again takes us on a mind-expanding journey, this time to the very heart of creativity and deep knowing.

Institutions of all sorts are facing profound change today, with complexity increasing at a speed and intensity we’ve never experienced before. Jaworski came to realize that traditional analytical leadership approaches are inadequate for dealing creatively with this complexity. To effectively face these challenges, leaders need to access the Source from which truly profound innovation flows.

Many people, including Jaworski himself, have experienced a connection with this Source, often when called upon to respond in times of crisis—moments of extreme spontaneity and intuitive insight. Actions simply flow through them, seemingly without any sort of conscious intervention. But these experiences are chance occurrences—ordinarily, we don’t know how to access the Source, and we even have a blind spot as to its very existence.

In an extraordinarily wide-ranging intellectual odyssey, Jaworski relates his fascinating experiences with quantum physicists, cognitive scientists, indigenous leaders, and spiritual thinkers, all focused on getting to the heart of the Source. Ultimately, he develops four guiding principles that encompass the nature of the Source and what we need to do to stay in dynamic dialogue with it.

Using the combination of narrative and reflection that made Synchronicity so compelling, Jaworski has written a book that illuminates the essential nature not only of visionary leadership but also of relationships, consciousness, and ultimately reality itself.

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Joseph Jaworski is a founder and the chairman of both Generon International and the Global Leadership Initiative and is the founder of the American Leadership Forum. He is the author of the international bestseller Synchronicity and a coauthor of Presence.

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SOURCE

THE INNER PATH OF KNOWLEDGE CREATIONBy Joseph Jaworski

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Contents

Introduction: The Capacity to Sense and Actualize Emerging Futures........................1Prologue..................................................................................71. The Source of the Entrepreneurial Impulse – The Quest Begins.....................112. A Deeper Region of Consciousness.......................................................133. Birth of the U Theory..................................................................174. A Laboratory for Creative Discovery....................................................215. The Red Book...........................................................................236. Baja: The Birth of the Global Leadership Initiative....................................297. Demonstration Projects.................................................................338. The Mountain Lion......................................................................399. Learning Hard Lessons..................................................................4310. Encounter in the Netherlands..........................................................4911. Stage IV Leaders......................................................................5312. Return to Baja........................................................................5713. Journey to Pari.......................................................................6114. The Finite, the Infinite, and the Destiny State.......................................6715. Nonlocality and the Implicate Order...................................................7116. Indigenous Science....................................................................7717. The Inner State.......................................................................8518. Encountering the Authentic Whole......................................................9119. Partners in Evolution.................................................................9520. Science and Human Possibility.........................................................9721. Remote Viewing........................................................................10322. The Powerful Nature of Human Intention................................................10923. Collective Coherence..................................................................11324. The Source of Reality.................................................................11725. Foresight.............................................................................12326. Accessing the Source – The Surprising Role of the Heart.........................12727. Group Entrainment.....................................................................13328. The Power of Passionate Attention.....................................................13529. Connecting to the Source..............................................................13930. The Structure of Knowledge Creation...................................................14331. The Release of Limiting Belief Systems................................................14732. Sudden Illumination...................................................................14933. Ancient Antecedents...................................................................15334. Nature and Sacred Spaces..............................................................15735. The Power of Love.....................................................................16136. A Disciplined Path....................................................................16337. Developing Stage IV Leadership........................................................16938. Scaffolding Stage IV Organizations....................................................17539. Stage IV Enterprises: Two Stories.....................................................18340. The Advent of Stage IV Organizations..................................................193Epilogue..................................................................................195Notes.....................................................................................201Acknowledgments...........................................................................211Index.....................................................................................213About the Author..........................................................................219Generon International.....................................................................222

Chapter One

THE SOURCE OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL IMPULSE – THE QUEST BEGINS

What is the Source of the entrepreneurial impulse? What is the Source of our capacity to access the knowledge for action we need at the moment?

In the spring of 1998, I was sitting in the back row of a large auditorium in the Shell Learning Center at the Woodlands just north of Houston. Eighteen months earlier, Shell Oil Company (the then-autonomous unit of the Royal Dutch Shell Group of Companies), Texaco, Inc., and Saudi Aramco had announced their intention to form an alliance of all their refining, distribution, and marketing (their "downstream" operations) in the United States. The "Alliance" would be the largest downstream organization in the world, with annual revenues approaching $40 billion. The Alliance hired Generon, a firm I had cofounded, to help develop its senior leadership and to assist in the integration of the units into a cohesive whole.

On that spring day, about 250 senior officers, who were members of the transition team, had gathered for the kickoff of the new venture. The chief operating officer of Texaco, Glenn Tilton, gave the opening remarks. In those remarks, Tilton identified the greatest challenge facing the Alliance – how to compete effectively with the newer and more nimble entrepreneurial downstream operators that had appeared in the marketplace in the last five years.

"We in this room have been operating in major oil companies as 'elephants.' But starting next week, we're going to have to act as 'gazelles' – to become true entrepreneurs – or we won't be in the phone book in five years."

You could have heard a pin drop. Tilton continued, "We've got to rise to the occasion – but, to be honest – I'm not sure how to begin. I'm counting on each of you to help figure this out. We've got our work cut out for us in more ways than we can ever imagine."

In that instant, the question flashed before me: "What is the Source of the entrepreneurial impulse? What is the Source of our capacity to access the knowledge for action we need at the moment?"

Although I didn't know the answer, I absolutely knew there were important hidden implications I would discover if I stayed committed. In that very instant, my energy completely shifted, as if an internal rheostat had been turned up to the maximum.

I had an utter lack of self-concern, a sense of complete freedom, and a sense of overwhelming urgency. Nothing else mattered to me but to follow this opening, even if I didn't fully understand why.

And that's what I did for the next ten years.

Chapter Two

A DEEPER REGION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

For the big decisions in life, you need to reach a deeper region of...

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• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1576759040
• ISBN 13: 9781576759042
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• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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