Comments - ILLUMINATING the BLIND-SPOT - Gaia Community2024-03-28T10:07:25Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A14584&xn_auth=no“The one thing that I have l…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2014-08-13:5313775:Comment:174082014-08-13T20:42:27.920ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><em><span>“The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That’s why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.”<br/><br/></span></em></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.kosmosjournal.org/news/from-big-data-to-deep-data/" target="_blank">By Otto Scharmer, from his blog</a></h3>
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<p><em><span>“The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That’s why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.”<br/><br/></span></em></p>
<h3><a href="http://www.kosmosjournal.org/news/from-big-data-to-deep-data/" target="_blank">By Otto Scharmer, from his blog</a></h3>
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<p><br/><br/></p> We live in an age of profoun…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-09-23:5313775:Comment:161032013-09-23T17:59:16.942ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong>We live in an age of profound disruption</strong>. Global crises, such as finance, food, fuel, water,</p>
<p>resource scarcity and poverty challenge just about every aspect of society. Yet, this disruption</p>
<p>also brings the possibility of profound personal, societal and global renewal. We need to stop</p>
<p>and ask: Why do we collectively create results nobody wants? What keeps us locked into the old</p>
<p>ways of operating? And what can we do to transform these root…</p>
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<p><strong>We live in an age of profound disruption</strong>. Global crises, such as finance, food, fuel, water,</p>
<p>resource scarcity and poverty challenge just about every aspect of society. Yet, this disruption</p>
<p>also brings the possibility of profound personal, societal and global renewal. We need to stop</p>
<p>and ask: Why do we collectively create results nobody wants? What keeps us locked into the old</p>
<p>ways of operating? And what can we do to transform these root issues that keep us trapped in</p>
<p>the patterns of the past?</p>
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<p>The book <strong><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f8b90142-09a3-11e3-8b32-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2fjweqjGj" target="_blank">Leading from the Emerging Future:</a> From Ego-system 2 Eco-system Economies</strong></p>
<p>ponders these questions and proposes a new line of thought that is <strong><a href="http://www.blog.ottoscharmer.com/?p=557" target="_blank"><em>summarized</em> in 10 insights</a></strong>.</p>
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ADDRESSING THE BLIND SPOT …tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-06-26:5313775:Comment:148002013-06-26T05:53:37.512ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong><a href="http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.solonline.org/resource/resmgr/ecw/theory_u_exec_summary.pdf" target="_blank"> </a></strong></p>
<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><strong><a href="http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.solonline.org/resource/resmgr/ecw/theory_u_exec_summary.pdf" target="_blank">ADDRESSING THE BLIND SPOT OF OUR TIME</a></strong> </p>
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<p><span><strong>Where do you put your lever? On the…</strong></span></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.solonline.org/resource/resmgr/ecw/theory_u_exec_summary.pdf" target="_blank"> </a></strong></p>
<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><strong><a href="http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.solonline.org/resource/resmgr/ecw/theory_u_exec_summary.pdf" target="_blank">ADDRESSING THE BLIND SPOT OF OUR TIME</a></strong> </p>
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<p><span><strong>Where do you put your lever? On the soil</strong>. <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.633083446719910.1073741830.100000547827652&type=3" target="_blank">On improving the quality of your topsoil</a></strong>.</span></p>
<p><span>Every day. The fertile topsoil is a very thin layer of a living substance that evolves through the</span></p>
<p><span>intertwined connection of two worlds: the visible realm above the surface and the invisible</span></p>
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<p><span><em><strong>The words culture and cultivation originate from practicing this very activity—cultivating the topsoil by deepening the connection between both worlds (e.g., by ploughing).</strong></em></span></p>
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<p><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.grove.98/posts/635601086468146?notif_t=like" target="_blank">C. Otto Scharmer</a> - <a href="http://www.ottoscharmer.com/publications/summaries.php" target="_blank">THEORY U: Leading from the Emerging Future</a></strong></p>
<p></p> "We live in a moment of dis…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-06-20:5313775:Comment:147782013-06-20T06:25:21.089ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong>"<a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.grove.98/posts/635601086468146?notif_t=like" target="_blank">We live in a moment of disruption, death - and rebirth</a>. What's dying is an old civilization and mindset of maximum "me" - maximum material consumption, bigger is better, and <em>special-interest-group-driven decision-making</em> that has led us into <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/hubris-nemesis-catharsis" target="_blank">a state of…</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>"<a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.grove.98/posts/635601086468146?notif_t=like" target="_blank">We live in a moment of disruption, death - and rebirth</a>. What's dying is an old civilization and mindset of maximum "me" - maximum material consumption, bigger is better, and <em>special-interest-group-driven decision-making</em> that has led us into <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/hubris-nemesis-catharsis" target="_blank">a state of organized irresponsibility, collectively creating result...</a>." </strong></p>
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