Leadership and the New Science

Mimi Corcoran

Maryam Salahshoor

Nick Humbert

• Overview of Wheatley’s Main Points

Agenda

• Video Commentary by Margaret Wheatley

• “Persona” activity – Team Machiavelli, Team Hanh and Team Fullan

• Summary and conclusions

• Short videos on selected theories

• “We finish each other’s sentences” activity and discussion

• Team “debates”

• Orderly World

Overview

• Newtonian Organizations in a Quantum Age • Invisible Fields which Shape Behavior

• Real World

• The Creative Energy of the Universe • Chaos

• Our Participative Universe • Change, Stability and Renewal

• New Scientific Management • Change, the Capacity of Life

Nick

Introduction

How does this change occur and is it identifiable?

Nick • Evolution of leadership

– How organizations have been structured – Where are they presently – Direction they should be heading (but no final

form)

• Fundamental shift in how we come to understand everything?

Introduction

Mechanical Age Thinking New Scientific Thinking

Maryam

From Newtonian To Quantum Physics

Fields And The Holographic Universe

Maryam

Participative Universe

Mimi

Overview of Wheatley’s Main Points

Agenda

• Video Commentary by Margaret Wheatley

• “Persona” activity – Team Machiavelli, Team Hanh and Team Fullan

• Summary and conclusions

• Short videos on selected theories

• “We finish each other’s sentences” activity and discussion

• Team “debates”

• Overview of Wheatley’s Main Points

4. To change conversation, change who is in the conversation

1. People support what they create

2. People act responsibly when they care

3. Conversation is the way human beings have always thought

5. Expect leaders to come from anywhere Mimi

9. Humans can handle anything as long as we're together

6. Focusing on what is working gives us energy and creativity

7. The wisdom resides within us

8. Everything is a failure in the middle

10. Generosity, forgiveness and love Mimi

Overview of Wheatley’s Main Points

Agenda

Video Commentary by Margaret Wheatley

• “Persona” activity – Team Machiavelli, Team Hanh and Team Fullan

• Summary and conclusions

• Short videos on selected theories

• “We finish each other’s sentences” activity and discussion

• Team “debates”

• Video Commentary by Margaret Wheatley

We complete each other’s sentences Activity #1

• Please read it • You should have your own paper returned to you

• Discussion

Maryam

We complete each other’s sentences Activity #1

• Please answer the first question and pass your paper to your left

• Each colleague has a different color paper

• Now, answer the second question and DO NOT pass the paper yet

• Ask the third question yourself. Do not answer it.

• Now, pass the paper to your left. Answer the question which you have just received AND ask the next question.

Maryam

Maryam

*Leadership and the New Science in action*

How to Use Strange Attractors in Management The following is part of a statement by a person in a leadership position describing how she utilized Margaret Wheatley’s approach in her leadership style. After reading the statement, highlight three area which you think that her actions were influenced by Wheatley’s points of view and explain why you think so?

Overview of Wheatley’s Main Points

Agenda

Video Commentary by Margaret Wheatley

• “Persona” activity – Team Machiavelli, Team Hanh and Team Fullan

• Summary and conclusions

• Short videos on selected theories

“We finish each other’s sentences” activity and discussion

• Team “debates”

• “We finish each other’s sentences” activity and discussion

Overview of Wheatley’s Main Points

Agenda

Video Commentary by Margaret Wheatley

• “Persona” activity – Team Machiavelli, Team Hanh and Team Fullan

• Summary and conclusions

Short videos on selected theories

“We finish each other’s sentences” activity and discussion

• Team “debates”

• Short videos on selected theories

The Great Debates Activity #2

• You will not be on the team for the author you presented

• Each colleague will be assigned to a team, Team Machiavelli, Team Hanh or Team Fullan

• Each team, taking on the team persona, will develop an argument in favor or against several of Wheatley’s ideas. • While you are working, we will be playing some interesting chaos theory videos.

Mimi

Sarah Amber Cheryl

Jie Al

Anne

Lauren Kate

Shantha

Mimi

Sarah Amber Cheryl

Jie Al

Anne

Lauren Kate

Shantha

Jie Al

Anne

Lauren Kate

Shantha

Team

Machiavelli

Team Hanh

Team Fullan

Mimi

1. Confusion and chaos theory lead to the process of organization?

3. The concept of self-organizing, adaptive systems lead to the sustainment of productivity in organizations?

2. How can we define a good leader according to Leadership and the New Science and do you agree with it?

Mimi

Overview of Wheatley’s Main Points

Agenda

Video Commentary by Margaret Wheatley

“Persona” activity – Team Machiavelli, Team Hanh and Team Fullan

• Summary and conclusions

Short videos on selected theories

“We finish each other’s sentences” activity and discussion

• Team “debates”

• “Persona” activity – Team Machiavelli, Team Hanh and Team Fullan

Confusion and chaos theory lead to the process of organization.

Question #1

Maryam

How can we define a good leader according to Leadership and the New Science and do you

agree with it?

Question #2

Maryam

Question #3

The concepts of self- organizing, adaptive systems lead to the sustainment of productivity

in organizations.

Maryam

Overview of Wheatley’s Main Points

Agenda

Video Commentary by Margaret Wheatley

“Persona” activity – Team Machiavelli, Team Hanh and Team Fullan

• Summary and conclusions

Short videos on selected theories

“We finish each other’s sentences” activity and discussion

Team “debates” • Team “debates”

Overarching Ideas

Humanity Creativity

Understanding

Ownership

* Information * Relationships * Vision *

Awareness

Mimi

Mimi

Mimi

Mimi

“Seeing the interplay between system dynamics and individuals is a dance of discovery that requires several iterations between the whole and its parts. We expand our vision to see the whole, then narrow our gaze to peer intently into individual moments.”

Wheatley, p.143

Mimi

More Food for Thought

Maryam

• Point 3

Enjoy and decide for yourself which in any fits your leadership qualities

Conclusions and Food for Thought

Who is smarter: The smartest person on the planet in 1990 who learned nothing else or 50 percentile individual in 2010 who continues to learn?

Nick

• If Dr. Wheatley were to choose an occupation that best described her model what would it be? Antithesis?

Conclusions

Individually, internal and external challenge to promote stronger organizations

Nick

• Collectively, organizations only function if individuals commit to a concept.

• Practically, fight to win over those who are vulnerable.

Wheatley on Education

Closing Thoughts

106 Thanks!