QUERY: Leadership & Power in Human Systems

? POWER in Human Systems ? This is a QUERY, seeking exploration; not a question seeking answers. How do dictators rule? The lack of satisfactory explanations periodically bothers me. What is the psycho-dynamics that leads large populations to “worship” and “obey” some leaders?  How does the conceptual scheme labeled “celebrity” relate to this query? How…

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Kegan’s Theory of Development

Robert Kegan’s Theory of Human Development Randy G. Litchfield Methodist Theological School in Ohio (9/12/96) Based on The Evolving Self (Cambridge: Harvard, 1982) NOTIONS ABOUT PERSONS A person is as much an activity as a thing People construct their realities; they are meaning making creatures People move through periods of stability and change People have…

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Metaphors about the Shifts We Need

Brief metaphors about the magnitude of paradigm shifts we need: The “vehicle” you are driving through life is having difficulty. It will be critical whether you treat it analogous to a CAR   or   HORSE. ************ What is “humankind”? Are we using the appropriate “categories”? What if “humankind” doesn’t always function according to the Laws of…

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