Differentiated people become integrated people. The collective intelligence climbs. Efforts become self-organizing and hierarchical direction is much less necessary. In this high state of collaboration, the group flourishes and exceeds expectations.
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Keith’s shift was an exercise in deep change. He outgrew the assumptions of conventional self-interest and entered the realm of positive leadership.
After the visit to Zingerman’s, the CEO and his people were scheduled to visit me. I assumed that I would need to overcome resistance. I was wrong. I did not need to explain anything about positive organizing because the people were “on fire” with their own ideas.
The teacher’s transactional students can begin to love the teacher because teacher loves them first. As one HET said, “How are you going to change them, by resenting them?”
Most of us seek after our self-interested survival and in doing so we proceed to undermine the unity of the group or team. We are programed to operate in the normal assumptions of political self-interest, but it is possible to choose to move to a more proactive state.
When times get tough that is when you find out who you really are. You find out what principles are central to you identity.
I loved that little experience. We were people from two different worlds. Yet in a matter of moments we crossed strong boundaries and became connected.
One of the things she studies is how Polynesians were able to navigate the ocean without any of the Western technologies. She speaks of the Maori navigator as the “way finder.” The way finder assumes that the canoe is stationary and the world is moving past. The challenge is to be “still” and ponder the various signals in the natural context. The island is “pulled” forward to the canoe.
In that short time he had clarified what he really wanted, challenged his own assumptions, and created a vision he now desired to pursue. As he walked away I thought of the thousands of students he will teach and how we just altered their lives.