Excellent Entry … I was chatting to a mate yesterday. He came up with a very good idea. It fits with the efforts you are putting into the waste free WA project. You may like to pass it on or freely share. Here goes: What if instead of wasting money on speeding, parking and other traffic fines we just issued community work orders and get offenders to work on the roads. We could issue two types of work to be done. First a certain number hours AND/OR kilograms of roadside litter collection to be done within a prescribed time and delivered to a local recycling plant by hand. Second a certain number of native trees, grasses or wildflowers to be planted along roadsides AND/OR a number of hours to be spent tending road side gardens with a prescribed time. The seedlings could be provided by APACE or similar community based native nurseries. Where offenders fail to perform work orders well or in the prescribed time their driver’s licences could be suspended or voluntarily yielded until they conform to community satisfaction.

This idea could see a greater respect for:

a. the social environments that are our roads;
b. the natural environments that are our roadsides; and
c. the economic environment that tries to support the two without waste.

It would also cut a lot of waste in things like printing fines and collecting money that could go to reducing waste in other ways. Plus the sight of remorseful community workers making amends for bad driving habits would be a real Road-Side Attraction! Sweet Justice for us all. I trust you see the promise in the idea.

See you later today.

Yours in excellence
pad Bennett

Blessings
Wendy

Those seven spaces are: awareness, stopping, calmness, stillness, peace, true thinking and attainment.

However to know what those words truly mean - you need to have already attained those spaces.

When we let go of our concept of leadership and cultivate leaders we will find the future emerges from the group, rather than the group needing to wait for a future leader to emerge.

A once proud family of Australian corporate life. Would you want your name there?

The consciousness that made such a decision is beyond ignorant in a world that is more aware than they.

Watch the others follow as ’survivng-well’ ICONs struggle to know what they cannot see.

In this diminished capacity state, we as moral, kind and thoughtful human beings are capable of great atrocity. In failing to recognizing that human nature is not fixed and consciousness is stratified we will continue to amaze ourselves at what we can allow ourselves to do, and not understand how movies like The Corporation cannot reach those who it is about, but can only hope to inspire action from those who already understand.

The only question is will the action by those who can see be conscious, moral and respectful of emergence or will it be equally pathological and fearful out of a failure to understand the bigger picture, inspired by preceived crisis.

There are at least two paths we can go down - I am sure the collective ‘We’ will attempt to choose both.

In this space hierarchy, pyramids and all the other efforts of collapsing in (integration) or collapsing out (differentiation) become non-sensical and mere whimsy … the point of focus becomes the fusion of our old favourite paradox best represented by the Mobius Loop as the half way point.

In Mobius’ famous paper strip we have both zero and infinty represented in one tangible form … everything in between exists — the stratified layers, which we seem to be compulsed to know, colour-code, make cartesian and sequence, are just the ocular reaction to our drive to seek clarity … yet lucidity (in we reach clarity, wisdom and expression at the same instance)is only found in freefall when we manage (somehow) to let got of numeric dimension and enter n-space.

To get there … simply listen for the sound of no hands clapping (I have a simple demonstration of this sound for anyone who is interested) … it happens when the complex and lucid cross … after which I wrote a poem (now lost)when my eyesight vanished in 1987.

I am sure it will show up one day.

Excellent reading from William, Elliot et al.

Thanks PAD

Which brings us back to the question, without a survivalist need why would one shift (or need to) assuming that one does not become aware of being at any ‘level’. There is some new work being done on when and how shifts occur. So its the same - because it draws on/reflects all the other developmental theorists findings - but different because its research base is not only about the individual but also the environmental effects of the social-collective on the individual. A social systems theory linked with psychology that is not sociology. Many unanswered questions.

I caught myself saying the other day that there are only two leadership traits that are important: tolerance for ambiguity and consistency of application. We want from our leaders leadership by example. Our leaders need to understand our value system and lead in a principled way. We want to know how we should act so as to survive.

We also want those same leaders to be able to be clear when there are conflicting dilemmas, understanding the questions and resolving them successfully - that’s what leadership is for. Tolerance for ambiguity is what enables this.

As you both have elegantly said, because leadership is out in front, it requires authenticity in what we do and an inner judgement about that. No one else can do this for us (although they can lead us to it).

Personal leadership development does not then need to go far, but it does need to go deep enough to cope with being authentic and clear in conflict - to the level of the value system that a person needs to lead in.

When new challenges present themselves and the system changes or becomes more complex - we then need transformation up and not simply translation within. At that time the journey (rather than the travelling) begins.