A LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON EMBODI INNOVATION
CARVING A HUMAN OUT OF STONE: Tending to the Seeds of Creation
To evolve as leaders, strategic teams, organizations, and as a society there are things we need to cherish and keep and things we need to undo, throw away or re-invent. We do not want to get too nihilistic, black or white, or oppositional in our efforts to innovate and evolve, throwing out the baby with the bath water.
At first if we are in the early stages of innovation, we may need to embody the antithesis of what we are trying to evolve. We may need to deeply experience a contrast, a differentiation, in order to get some distance from and see what we are working with. This can help lift the lid and create some space to spark the creative process within us. But it can't stop there. We must recognize we are still in a "creative marriage" with our opposite-what we are wrestling with and want to evolve, resolve or go away.
To ethically adapt and innovate in ways that get us out of "rock and a hard place" situations, and instead fostering more life, diversity and optimization within the system, we need to dig deeper into the creative emergent marriage we are in with the thing we are pushing against. Otherwise, we may create extreme opposition, power struggles, whack-a-mole work-around solutions or war.
When we realize this, we will realize our creative potential.
"We must go down to the very foundations of life. For any merely superficial ordering of life that leaves its deepest needs unsatisfied as an ineffectual, will feel as if no attempt at order had ever been made." I Ching Hexagram "The Well" (Circa 2500 BC)
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What Leaders are Up Against
In recent years, increased business complexities, market changes, workforce uncertainties and challenges, in addition to many new efficient technologies and processes have placed extreme pressure on companies across many sectors of business, including manufacturing, natural resource, oil and gas, information technology and more.
Juggling all these complexities requires innovation and it requires ethical. These modern-day times are demanding both.
In addition, a major cost component companies face where they could be much more competitive is regarding inefficiencies in the overall optimization of their people, process, technology strategy.
But increased complexities in workforce expectations, concerns and hopes, along with increased complexities in technological advancements and procedures can make it next to impossible to ensure optimization without some level of compromise of one or more of these sub systems.
As a result, an entirely new and more ethically innovative lens on system optimization is absolutely critical if businesses are to survive, let alone thrive in today's landscape.
A lens has us truly "get real" with ourselves and the deeply unconscious interactive processes we are having with technology and business procedures. As we learn to do this, we will realize a whole new innovation and optimization potential that offers win-win.
Founder: Majia Lee
CARVING A HUMAN OUT OF STONE
Tending to the Seeds of Creation