“If you want to be a leader stop trying to control.” – Tao Te Ching
How can you lead your organization, or your organization be a leader in its field, without the burden of holding all of the answers; without the weight of decisions and direction setting?
Using social technologies that embrace deliberate conversation and appreciative inquiry such as Community Circle, World Cafe, Open Space and U-Theory we can learn where the energy of your organization glows the brightest. Using online collaboration tools we can harness that energy into direct action for maximum impact. Together we can learn to shift the environment of your organization to one that embraces positive change.
The difference is that these conversations move beyond individual motives so that all voices are heard and the collective intelligence can come forward. In this collective intelligence is where we find innovation and renewed individual commitment.
Organizations of all sizes and backgrounds are embracing this process as a way of navigating the increasingly complex world we inhabit. From the European Union to African tribes, from New Zealand’s 4 Million Dreams project to the City of Upper Arlington, from multi-national corporations to small community groups.
No longer can we expect our leaders to have all of the answers; it is time for leaders to instead host an environment that welcomes the answers found not by experts alone, but by listening to the collective intelligence of the organization itself.
Working together with Andrew Miller Consulting we can grow the collective intelligence of your organization through nurturing internal community and learning new ways to harvest that knowledge and use it to make positive changes happen now.
