Who Do We Choose To Be?

Leadership and the Collapse of Complexity

We are not the first leaders to be stewarding a time of disintegration, fear, and loss. But none of us has been prepared for where we are. If we are older, we honed our leadership skills in a time of growth and possibility, when change was in the air and everything seemed possible. New paradigms led to new processes; new processes of systems thinking and participation yielded great results. Growth seemed good, and even as we were increasingly aware of the suffering of those far from us, our lives kept moving forward in a good way. Many of us heard and responded to the cries of the world. We took on the work of addressing urgent problems of the environment, turbo capitalism, human rights, poverty, health, ...