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Presencing:
Leading from the Future As It Emerges
17th Annual Pegasus Conference
November 5, 2007, Seattle
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C. Otto Scharmer
MIT
Presencing Institute
www.presencing.com
The Blind Spot of Leadership
“The success of an intervention
depends on the interior condition
of the intervenor.”
William O’Brien, former CEO of
the Hanover Insurance Company
The Blind Spot of Leadership
Results:
What
Completed
Painting
Process:
How
Process of
Painting
Source:
Who
Blind Spot: Inner place
from that we operate
Blank
Canvas
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I-in-me
Listening 1:
Downloading
Listening 2:
Factual
I-in-it
Listening 3:
Empathic
I-in-you
Listening 4:
Generative
I-in-now
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Attending from the patterns of the past
Reconfirming what we know
Stuck in your own prison
Attending from your open mind
Seeing new/disconfirming data
Understanding technical complexity
Attending from your open heart
Seeing through the eyes of another
Understanding social complexity
Attending from Source (open will)
Seeing from emerging futures
Understanding emerging complextiy
Two Sources of Learning, Two Learning Cycles
A.
Learning by reflecting on the experiences of the past
act - observe - reflect - plan - act
B.
Learning from the future as it emerges (presencing)
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The U Process of Presencing in A Nutshell
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Brian Arthur, Santa Fe Institute
On the Core Process of Profound Innovation
Downloading
Observe,
observe,
observe
Act in an
instant
Retreat and reflect:
Allow the inner
knowing to emerge
Downloading
patterns of the past
Access
Your...
suspending
Seeing
with fresh eyes
redirecting
Sensing
Open
Mind
Open
Heart
from the field
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Performing:
Downloading
patterns of the past
VOJ
suspending
embodying
Open
Mind
Seeing
with fresh eyes
VOC
achieve results through
practices, infrastructures
Access
Your...
Prototyping:
co-create strategic microcosm
enacting
Open
Heart
redirecting
Sensing
Crystallizing
vision and intention
from the field
VOF
letting-go
Open
Will
letting-come
Presencing
connecting to Source
Who is my Self?
What is my Work?
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Performing:
Downloading
patterns of the past
VOJ
suspending
embodying
Open
Mind
Seeing
with fresh eyes
VOC
achieve results through
practices, infrastructures
Access
Your...
Prototyping:
co-create strategic microcosm
enacting
Open
Heart
redirecting
Sensing
Crystallizing
vision and intention
from the field
letting-go
VOF
Open
Will
letting-come
Presencing
connecting to Source
Places and practices
of observation
Who is my Self?
What is my Work?
Places & practices
of prototyping
Places and practices of stillness
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Field
Micro:
Structure of THINKING
/LISTENING
Attention
Field 1:
Listening 1:
Operating from
the old me-world
Downloading
habits of thought
Meso:
Macro:
Mundo:
Mechanism of
CONVERSING ORGANIZING
/LANGUAGING /STRUCTURING COORDINATING
Downloading: Centralized:
Talking nice,
politeness
rule-reenacting
Field 2:
Listening 2:
Operating from the
current it-world
Factual,
object-focused
Talking tough
rule-revealing
Field 3:
Listening 3:
Operating from the
current you-world
Dialogue
Empathic
listening
inquiry
Field 4:
Listening 4:
Presencing:
Operating from
the highest future
possiblity that Is
wanting to emerge
Generative
listening
Debate:
rule-reflecting
Collective
creativity, flow
rule-generating
Machine
bureaucracy
Hierarchy:
Central plan
Decentralized: Market:
divisionalized
competition
Networked
relational
Dialogue:
Ecosystem
Ba
(mutual
adjustment)
Collective
Presence:
Seeing from
the emerging Wh
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1. Co-initiating: uncover common intent
stop and listen to others and to
what life
calls you to do
VOJ
5. Co-evolving: embody the new in
ecosystems that facilitate seeing and
acting from the whole
2. Co-sensing: observe, observe, observe
VOC
go to the places of most potential and
listen with your mind and heart wide open
4. Co-creating: prototype the new
in living examples to explore the
future by doing
VOF
3. Presencing: connect to the source of inspiration and will
go to the place of silence and allow
the inner knowing to emerge
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1. Holding the Space:
7. Performing:
Listen to What Life
Calls You to Do
Play the
“Macro Violin”
suspending
embodying
2. Observing:
6. Prototyping:
Open
Mind
Attend with Your
Wide Open Mind
deep dive
Integrate Head,
Heart, Hand
enacting
Open
Heart
3. Sensing:
Connect with
Your Heart
letting-go
Open
Will
5. Crystallizing:
Access the
Power of Intention
letting-come
4. Presencing:
Connect to the Deepest Source
of Your Self and Will
Who is my Self?
What is my Work?
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Resources and Literature:
Scharmer, C. Otto (2007).
Theory U: Leading from the Emerging Future As It Emerges. The Social Technology of
Presencing), Cambridge, MA: SoL Press.
Senge, P., C. O. Scharmer, J. Jaworski, and B. S. Flowers. (2004).
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future, Cambridge, MA: SoL Press.
Scharmer, C.O. (2001). Self-transcending knowledge: Sensing and Organizing Around
Emerging Opportunities. In: Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 5, no. 2: 137–
150.
www.presencing.com
www.ottoscharmer.com
www.theoryU.com
www.dialogonleadership.org
www.presence.net
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