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A reflection on the generative power of alignment
Love Learning Conference
Sydney, Australia
August 7 2015
Brendan Spillane
Everyviewpoint is a view froma point.
We are all shapedby where we’ve been.
Can I read Harry Potter
to you?
Find the campfire.most of the time
we think
AloneBill Isaacs
Give yourselfpermission tojust be here.
What can you tell me about..
..the difference?
Impostor Syndrome
I wasn’t ‘fit for purpose’
I hadn’t lived up to the challenge of the day
I was letting people down
Sooner or later,
I was going to be found out.
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What gives you joy? What gives joy?
Everything dependson how you are.
take a stance of
hope and joy
It is a ‘disaster’ to lose sight of the stars.
Levels of Perspective
Systemic Structures
Vision
Patterns of Behaviour
Events
Mental Models
Daniel Kim
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‘puzzles of practice’
Why is there often such a differencebetween intention and action? I have an open door policy!
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It’s not about me.
..for both of us.
I thought that went rather well..
..yet somehow often trapped.
Can this ‘puzzle of practice’ be explained largely by the speed of our times?
Perhaps the speed at which we livemakes it harder to transact intent.
“The ‘frenziedness of technology,’ Heidegger wrote, threatensto ‘entrench itself everywhere.’
It may be that we are now entering thefinal stage of that entrenchment.We are welcoming the frenziednessinto our souls.”
Last lines of ‘The Shallows’ (2010) by Nicholas Carr
‘..an Ice Age of the human heart.’
Ferrucci, 2006
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‘At a café a block from my home, almost everyone is on a computer or smartphone as they drink their coffee. These people are not my friends, yet somehow I miss their presence.’
Turkle, Alone Together. (2011)
‘..every new technology challenges us, generation after generation, to ask whether it serves our human purposes, something that causes us to reconsider what they are.’
Turkle, 2011
‘The way we’re workingisn’t working.’
Line from flier for ‘Mindful Leadership Global Forum’, Sydney September 2014
Work started following us home.
What can we learn from those whose intention and actions are described and experienced by others as aligned?
‘Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.’
Nothing is personal.
Contact with ignorance.
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What begins to show up ‘on the ground’ when places are shaped like this?
InnovationClarityEngagement
ICE
In what ways are we forest andin what ways are we acorn?
Will our organisation go to heaven?
Rowland Smith, The Reality Test (2014)
What should we stop doingaround here?
When you’re not in the room here, you will be..
..protected.How would you lead differently if leading ‘an army of volunteers’?
Maile Carnegie, CEO of Google Australia
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What is our patient experience like?
Our times require the..
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