Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies - Softcover

Scharmer, Otto; Kaufer, Katrin

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ISBN 10: 1605099260 ISBN 13: 9781605099262

Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2013

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The author of Theory U shares a practical guide for leaders who want to forge a path to a better future for the world.

We have entered an age of disruption. Financial collapse, climate change, resource depletion, and a growing gap between rich and poor are but a few of the signs. In Leading from the Emerging Future, Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer show us how to lead the shift out of an economy designed to collectively create results nobody wants.

Meeting the challenges of this century requires updating our economic logic and operating system from an obsolete “ego-system” focused entirely on the well-being of oneself to an eco-system awareness that emphasizes the well-being of the whole. Filled with real-world examples, this thought-provoking guide presents proven practices for building a new economy that is more resilient, intentional, inclusive, and aware.

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Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and cofounder of the Presencing Institute and the Global Wellbeing and Gross National Happiness Lab. He is the author of Theory U and a coauthor of Presence.
Katrin Kaufer is research director at the Presencing Institute and a research fellow with the MIT CoLab.

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LEADING FROM THE EMERGING FUTURE

From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies

By Otto Scharmer, Katrin Kaufer

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

Copyright © 2013 Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaeufer
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ISBN: 978-1-60509-926-2

Contents

Introduction: Breathing Life into a Dying System...........................
1
1 On the Surface: Symptoms of Death and Rebirth............................
27
2 Structure: Systemic Disconnects..........................................
44
3 Transforming Thought: The Matrix of Economic Evolution...................
67
4 Source: Connecting to Intention and Awareness............................
141
5 Leading the Personal Inversion: From Me to We............................
152
6 Leading the Relational Inversion: From Ego to Eco........................
174
7 Leading the Institutional Inversion: Toward Eco-System Economies.........
191
8 Leading from the Emerging Future: Now....................................
239
Acknowledgments............................................................
255
Notes......................................................................
259
Index......................................................................
275
About the Authors..........................................................
288
About the Presencing Institute.............................................
290

CHAPTER 1

On the Surface: Symptoms ofDeath and Rebirth

This chapter explores the symptoms at the tip of the iceberg of our currentreality. We move from the toppling of tyrants to an exploration of the deeperfault lines that keep generating the disruptive changes of our time. We also lookat these disruptive events from the viewpoint of change-makers: In the faceof disruption, what determines whether we end up in moments of madness ormindfulness?

The Toppling of Tyrants

In the fall of 1989, two weeks before the Berlin Wall crumbled, we tookan international student group to East Berlin, where we met with civilrights activists in the basement of a church. At one point, the professorwho was with us, peace researcher Johan Galtung, put a prediction onthe table: "The Berlin Wall will come down before the end of the year."Everybody doubted that, including the people who were organizing theresistance against the East German regime. And we were all wrong. TheWall came down and the Cold War came to an end just months afterthat meeting.

Nearly two decades later, in the fall of 2008, the bankruptcy ofLehman Brothers, a global financial services firm, sent shock wavesaround the globe and within hours brought the financial systems of theUnited States and Europe to the brink of collapse. Today the remainingWall Street megabanks and their European counterparts have survivedbecause of massive taxpayer-financed bailouts from their governments.On October 11 of that year, the head of the International Monetary Fund(IMF) warned that the world financial system was teetering on the"brink of systemic meltdown."

In December 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi, a young fruit and vegetableseller in Tunisia, set himself on fire in protest of his treatment bypolice, who wanted to extract bribes from him and, when he refused,took away his merchandise and beat him. In January 2011, a twenty-six-year-oldEgyptian activist, Asmaa Mahfouz, posted a video onlineurging people to protest the "corrupt government" of Egypt's president,Hosni Mubarak, by rallying in Cairo's Tahrir Square. With that videoshe sparked and inspired an uprising among the Egyptian population.A week later, on January 25, thousands joined her in Tahrir Square.Within days, the movement counted millions. At first the Egyptianpolice responded with brutality. But less than four weeks after Mahfouzhad posted her initial video, President Mubarak resigned.

A month later, a 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan, generatinga massive tsunami that killed more than twenty thousand people.The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was protected by a seawalldesigned to withstand a tsunami of 19 feet (5.7 meters). Minutes afterthe earthquake struck, a tsunami of 46 feet (14 meters) arrived, easilycrossing the seawall and knocking out the plant's emergency power generators.As a consequence, the radioactive fuel began overheating andput the plant on a path toward catastrophic meltdown.

As the year went on, the Arab Spring spread across the globe. MuammarGaddafi was toppled in Libya. The Occupy Wall Street movement,which took inspiration in part from the Arab Spring, staged actions inmore than a thousand cities across the globe.

The collapse of the Berlin Wall, the demise of the Mubarak and Gaddafiregimes, the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant, and the near-meltdown of the western financial system all sharesome features:

1. the end of an inflexible, centralized control structure, one that previouslyhad been considered indestructible

2. the beginning of a spontaneous, decentralized grassroots movementof people letting go of their fear and waking up to another level ofawareness and interconnectedness

3. the opening of some small cracks in the old system, followed by itscrumbling and eventual collapse

4. the rebound of the old forces as soon as the memory of the collapsebegan to fade away; the old forces tried to obscure the actual rootcauses of the breakdown in order to extend their privileged access topower and influence (an example is Wall Street's financial oligarchy)

We believe that these kinds of events will keep coming our way.These disruptive changes mark the beginning of a new era that we haveentered as a global community, an era of increasing disruption. Sometimessuch movements will give rise to movements that bring aboutprofound change, and sometimes they will falter and fail. In many cases,as we discuss later in the book, these disruptions are already on theirway. It is too late to prevent all of them. So where is our point of control?It is in how we respond to the impact that these disruptions have on howwe work and live.

A disruptive change affects not only our outer world, but also ourinner self. Such moments bring our world to a sudden stop. They maybe terrifying, but they also constitute a great blank space that can befilled in one of two ways: by freezing and reverting to the patterns ofthe past, or by opening us up to the highest future possibilities. The secondresponse—leaning into, sensing, and actualizing one's emergingfuture—is what this book is about.

Presencing

At the moment when we reach the point of meltdown, we have a choice:We can freeze and revert to our deeply ingrained habits of the past, orwe can stop and lean into the space of the unknown, lean into that whichwants to emerge.

This second possibility—to lean into and connect to our highestfuture potential—we refer to as presencing. As noted in the introduction,the word presencing merges the terms presence and sensing. It meansto sense and operate from the presence of an emerging future field.As we connect with this field of heightened awareness, our attentionmorphs from slowing down, opening up, redirecting, and letting go to lettingcome,...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1605099260
• ISBN 13: 9781605099262
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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