A new vision, a different vision, was needed because most models up to this point were based on 2 basic assumptions about how the world worked:

that stability was the norm and
since conditions are increasingly unstable, something fundamental about the world had become flawed or broken.
I’m going to tie these assumptions together and call them the Broken World Paradigm (BWP, for short). The problem with this BWP was that it took as gospel certain views of reality that had long ago been called into deep question by many thinkers, including quantum physicists and complexity scientists. Unfortunately, there is no time or space right now to get into all that or to even detail the alternative views (but if you want to know more you can start here or here).

So the important now question became “What would a leadership model look like if it didn’t buy into the BWP? What if there was a way to lead that acknowledged all this disruption and upheaval, but saw it as a holding the potential for really good things, perhaps some kind of emergence?”

Indeed, what would leadership become if it assumed that all this upheaval was part of the solution, rather than proof of an underlying problem? What I came up was a project I’m calling Leadership In The Time of Liminality: Perspectives for Navigating an Emerging Future. Over this and 5 subsequent postings I’m going to share the key components of the preliminary model I came up with in order to introduce the thinking and, hopefully, gain some valuable feedback from all of you.

"So I continue to believe both things: that statements about social entities and powers must be compatible there being microfoundations for these properties and powers

Watch the video above to hear about what “planned serendipity” really is (you can’t plan to win the lottery, alas), how Steve Jobs literally architected good luck into Pixar and Apple, how luck plays into Amazon’s current status as a tech product hit factory, and how even rank-and-file employees can “storm the gates” to make their companies more open to success.

"Exploded view diagrams open up– a little –these black boxes so as to discern the multiple-composition that objects or units are as complexes of relations. What we discover is that every object is both a unit and a crowd of other objects or units."

"Celebrating the physics of all that flows."

patterns as a way of making sense of group behaviour (and I'd say emergent phenomena galore)

"People should feel empowered by the idea of a science of team building, The idea that we can transmute the guess work of putting a team together into a rigorous methodology, and then continuously improve teams is exciting. Nothing will be more powerful, I believe, in eventually changing how organizations work."

A yellow goo has invaded the world's motorways, spreading from capital cities to the furthest reaches of the transport network and devouring everything in its path. The infestation was unleashed by Andrew Adamatzky, a researcher of unconventional computing at the University of the West of England in Bristol, along with colleagues from universities around the globe.

"The B36/S125 (or "2x2") cellular automaton is one that takes place on a 2D square lattice much like Conway's Game of Life. Although it exhibits high-level behaviour that is similar to Life, such as chaotic but eventually stable evolution and the existence of a natural diagonal glider, the individual objects that the rule contains generally look very different from their Life counterparts. In this article, a history of notable discoveries in the 2x2 rule is provided, and the fundamental patterns of the automaton are described. Some theoretical results are derived along the way, including a proof that the speed limits for diagonal and orthogonal spaceships in this rule are c/3 and c/2, respectively. A Margolus block cellular automaton that 2x2 emulates is investigated, and in particular a family of oscillators made up entirely of 2 x 2 blocks are analyzed and used to show that there exist oscillators with period 2^m(2^k - 1) for any integers m,k geq 1."

"I looked at a lot of stock photography as well, and went to all the horrible tourist shops in London to get every postcard I could find."

While checking my capitalization for a snarky tweet, I found this, and am now considering taking up crochet. #emergence