Eight Propositions
These are the "Eight Propositions" regarding senior managers
from the book, "Synchronicity"
by Joe Jaworski.
The trouble with American leaders is ...
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...their lack of self knowledge.
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...their lack of appreciation for the nature of leadership itself.
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...their focus on concepts that separate (communities, nations,
disciplines, fields, methods, etc), rather than concepts that
express our interconnections.
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...their ignorance of the world and of U.S. interdependence - their
lack of worldmindedness.
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...their inattention to values -- forgetting to ask "Why?"
and "What for?"
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...they do not know how to make changes, to analyze "social
architecture" and to create a team to make something different
happen.
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...an insufficient appreciation for the relevance of stakeholders; of the
implications of pluralism; and of the fact that nobody is in charge,
and therefore each leader is partly in charge of the situation as a
whole.
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...they are not sufficiently aware of the context, or the external
environment, of whatever it is they are responsible for doing.