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Manuel MangaManuel Manga

Center for Evolutionary LeadershipCenter for Evolutionary Leadershipwww.evolutionleader.comwww.evolutionleader.com

Evolutionary Leadership for Systemic Evolutionary Leadership for Systemic SustainabilitySustainability

BASOL -HUB SAN FRANCISCO JUNE 21, 2013

The objectives of this presentationThe objectives of this presentation


•To understand our evolutionary crisis and how it contributes to an unsustainable world.•Become familiar with the seven competencies of an evolutionary leader, and what makes it different from other leadership models. •to invite you to become an evolutionary leader who contributes toward a psychosocial evolution and building a just, flourishing, and sustainable world.•Identify your personal evolutionary stand, purpose, or commitment.•Expand your horizon of opportunities where you can make a difference.

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The Evolutionary Journey: The Evolutionary Journey: Jonas SalkJonas Salk

The most meaningful activity in which a human being can be engaged is one that is directly related to human evolution, this is true because humans now play an active and critical role not only in the process of their own evolution but in the survival and evolution of all living things.

Therefore, human beings have a responsibility for their Therefore, human beings have a responsibility for their participation in and contribution to the process of evolution. participation in and contribution to the process of evolution. Acceptance and acknowledgement of this responsibility and Acceptance and acknowledgement of this responsibility and creative engagement in the process of meta-biological creative engagement in the process of meta-biological evolution consciously would bring forth a new reality.evolution consciously would bring forth a new reality.

The Evolutionary CrisisThe Evolutionary Crisis


Our Unsustainable World

Let’s examine the evolutionary crisis from a systemic perspective.


Global Problems:Global Problems: A Systems Perspective

Hunger

Poverty

Oppression of Women

AIDSPopulation

Growth

Obsolete worldviews &

Patterns of leadership

Culture & lifestyle

of consumerism

Unsustainable Economic Systems

Environmental destruction &

Global warmingResource wars

& WMD’s

Need for oil supplies

& energy

The Evolutionary CrisisThe Evolutionary Crisis


Our Unsustainable World

The Crisis of Perception

The Ecological Crisis

The Human Condition Crisis

The Institutional Crisis

The Crisis of Leadership


In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other.That time is now.

Wangari Maathai


How did we get here ?How did we get here ?

What are the historical narratives What are the historical narratives that got us here?that got us here?

What are the assumptions that got What are the assumptions that got us here?us here?

What are the paradigms that got us What are the paradigms that got us here?here?


The Purpose of Evolutionary The Purpose of Evolutionary LeadershipLeadership

is to facilitate a conscious cultural is to facilitate a conscious cultural evolution toward a just, ethical, evolution toward a just, ethical, flourishing, and sustainable global flourishing, and sustainable global society/planetary civilization.society/planetary civilization.

Evolutionary leadership is based on a Evolutionary leadership is based on a worldview that integrates the worldview that integrates the biological, ecological, and social biological, ecological, and social dimensions of life. dimensions of life.


The Great Transition Toward Sustainability

Evolutionary Leadership

Sustainable World

Evolution of Mind

Institutional Evolution

Cultural Evolution

THE EVOLUTIONARY CRISIS/ OUR UNSUSTAINABLEWORLD


Three types of Evolution Three types of Evolution toward a Just, Flourishing & toward a Just, Flourishing &

Sustainable WorldSustainable World An evolution of mind- consciousness

An ecological mindset. An evolutionary mind. A systems-oriented way of being and observing the world. A planetary consciousness.

Institutional evolution Business and other institutions need to evolve to become “living institutions” that support systemic sustainability- the sustainability of the whole planet.

Cultural evolution New values that promote a sustainable life style, ecological harmony, social justice, ethics, and a focus on love and quality of living.


Sustainability is Sustainability is

the possibility that the possibility that

human and other human and other forms forms

of life will flourish of life will flourish

on the Earth forever.on the Earth forever. John R. EhrenfeldJohn R. Ehrenfeld

SustainabilitySustainability


What Do Evolutionary Leaders Do ?What Do Evolutionary Leaders Do ? Evolutionary Leaders are people that Evolutionary Leaders are people that

declare possible what other people do not declare possible what other people do not

They declare a vision/scenarios for a They declare a vision/scenarios for a future.future.they design worlds and actions through they design worlds and actions through language and conversations.language and conversations.

Work on adaptive challenges Work on adaptive challenges

Think systemic, collaborative, and into Think systemic, collaborative, and into deep future.deep future.

Promote learning, ontological designing, Promote learning, ontological designing, and cultural evolutionand cultural evolution

Make choices , Mobilize people & ActionMake choices , Mobilize people & Action


Seven Seven CompetenciCompetenci

es of an es of an Evolutionary Evolutionary Leader/ the Leader/ the

howhow

2. Emotions,2. Emotions,Language Language

3.Systems 3.Systems Being &ThinkingBeing &Thinking

4. Ontological4. OntologicalDesigningDesigning

5.Systemic5.SystemicSustainabilitySustainability

1.Personal1.PersonalEvolutionEvolution

7. Evolutionary7. EvolutionaryVisions/Visions/

ScenariosScenarios

6. Adaptive6. AdaptiveChallenges andChallenges andCollaborationCollaboration


An evolutionary leadership competency

Commits to the development of an evolutionary mind/consciousness aligned with evolutionary vision.

Recognizing that as a living system you are part of nature and the human family.

Commits to learning and applying evolutionary competencies in order to transform oneself and produce results.

Declares a stand/purpose in order to make history and bring forth a just, flourishing, & sustainable world.

Personal Personal EvolutionEvolution



Emotions

vocabularies

conversations

Emotions &Emotions &LanguageLanguage

Historical Narratives


Language & Conversations Language & Conversations

Language and conversations.Language and conversations. It is through It is through language that we observe and bring forth our language that we observe and bring forth our worlds. It is through conversations that we worlds. It is through conversations that we coordinate our actions, create relationships, coordinate our actions, create relationships, and elicit commitments to produce results.and elicit commitments to produce results.

Everything human takes place in language and Everything human takes place in language and conversations.conversations.

Language shapes the human world.Language shapes the human world.


Understands the four types of systems,

Understands the dynamics and behaviors of systems.

Understands the systemic structure of our global problems

Designs systems in harmony with nature and systemic sustainability.

Systems Being/ Systems Being/ ThinkingThinking



SocialSystems

TechnologicalSystemsLiving

Systems

NaturalSystems

Types of Systems


The Systemic Nature of our Global The Systemic Nature of our Global ProblemsProblems

Most of our world problems are systemic in nature: poverty, population growth, ecological

destruction, global warming.

Yet we react to them in a way that is fragmented and often counter-productive.

There is a crisis of perception - There is a crisis of perception - in our culture, we don’t see systems.in our culture, we don’t see systems.


Natural Capitalism.

Designing with sustainability

Population stabilized /social justice

Ecological culture and institutions.

Natural ontology.+R

Natural Capitalism and an Ecological Culture


ScienceScience

Evolutionary Leadership

Competencies

LeadershipLeadership

SystemsSystems

Sustainability Knowledge

Multi-Sector Institutional Application


Ontological DesigningOntological Designing

Design is one of the most powerful concepts available to humans, social designers, and leaders.

Ontological Designing is becoming aware that we humans are designing our worlds and things, and those worlds and things are designing us.

We can design technology, artifacts, constitutions, rights, the self, culture, organizations, and social systems.

Ontological Ontological designingdesigning


The Work of Evolutionary LeadersThe Work of Evolutionary Leaders“The key challenge of this new century- for social scientists, natural scientists, and everyone else- will be to build ecologically sustainable communities, designed in such a way that their technologies and social institutions-their material and social structures - do not interfere with nature’s inherent ability to sustain life.

The design principles of our future social institutions must be consistent with the principles of organization that nature has evolved to sustain the web of life.”

-Fritjof Capra-Fritjof Capra The Hidden ConnectionsThe Hidden Connections


A Design for a Sustainable Organization

Sustainable Organization

People

Humanistic Management and

Human Development

Learning organization

Human rights

Sustainable consumption

Sustainable communities

Learning society

Planet

Atmosphere & climate

Water

Fisheries & Forestry

Agriculture

Biodiversity/biosphere

Energy & Transport

Waste

Profit

Corporate Social Responsibility Sustainable products and services

Quality of growth


Designing to Create Sustainable Societies

FUNNEFUNNELL

2013 and beyond . . .Sustainable Sustainable SocietySociety

Systems

Science

2013Current Unsustainable World

Learning



Understands sustainability as composed of three dimensions: Human, Institutional, and Environmental.

Human sustainability supports the basic needs of human beings.

Institutional sustainability are the structures and systems that support a sustainable society, such as business, government, education, religion, the family.

Environmental sustainability conserves the biosphere and the ecology on earth on which human beings depend for their well-being.

SystemicSystemicSustainabilitySustainability


A new paradigm in which human A new paradigm in which human beings reclaim their sense of their beings reclaim their sense of their place in the natural world. It is the place in the natural world. It is the ethical domain of doing the right ethical domain of doing the right thing.thing.

Entails understanding the biological Entails understanding the biological and ecological principles that and ecological principles that sustain life and seeing the sustain life and seeing the organization embedded in a organization embedded in a complex living network.complex living network.

Must include designing technology, Must include designing technology, artifacts, and organizations with artifacts, and organizations with principles derived from ecosystems principles derived from ecosystems properties and dynamics.properties and dynamics.

Systemic Systemic SustainabilitySustainability


HUMAN

SUSTAINABILITY

INSTITUTIONAL

SUSTAINABILITY

ENVIRONMENTAL

SUSTAINABILITY

SYSTEMIC SUSTAINABILITY


Human Sustainability : human needs Human Sustainability : human needs met in a just societymet in a just society

9 FundamentalHuman Needs

Identity Freedom

Participation

Idleness

Creativity

Subsistence

Understanding

Protection

Affection

Source:Manfred Max-Neef, 1991


Institutional Sustainability Institutional Sustainability

Corporations can either continue to grow within the unsustainable paradigm or evolve toward the paradigm of a sustainable society.

Organizations and Institutions can evolve to become Living Institutions that are responsible and care for the whole.


An evolutionary leadership competencyAdaptive Adaptive

Challenges &Challenges &CollaborationCollaboration

•An adaptive challenge is a situation that requires new knowledge, new learning, and even a change in values, behaviors, and worldviews.•Adaptive challenges requires both an assessment of the current reality as well as a vision of a new reality. •Leaders identify the adaptive challenges and then evoke the collective intelligence of the group or organizations to come up with answers and commit to doing the work.•A key question is adapt to what, and for what purpose?

Adapted from Leadership without easy answers. Ronald Heifetz.


Adaptive Challenges of the Twenty-Adaptive Challenges of the Twenty-first Century: first Century: Seven Unsustainable Seven Unsustainable

conditionsconditions Climate change.Climate change. Population growthPopulation growth PovertyPoverty Unsustainable economic systems and Unsustainable economic systems and

addiction to consumerismaddiction to consumerism Biosphere destructionBiosphere destruction War, Terrorism, WMDWar, Terrorism, WMD Hubris. Our Modern World view Hubris. Our Modern World view


society

Culture/

Civil Society

Polity

Economy

Evolutionary Leaderswork with all three

CollaborationCollaboration

Collaboration among organizations within each sector of society and between each sector of society, as well as between societies as part of a Global collaboration movement.



Understands our evolutionary history: Cosmic, Biological, Cultural.

Thinking longer, deeper, and wider about our place in nature, this moment on earth, and future civilizations

Envisions sustainable scenarios for humanity

Concerned with the conservation of life/biosphere on this planet

Evolutionary Evolutionary Vision &Vision &

ScenariosScenarios


A Vision of a Sustainable WorldA Vision of a Sustainable World

Conservation of Biosphere, Ecology: water, air, land, species, ecological systems, biosphere.

Conservation of Human beings: Human beings as loving beings, as part of nature. Creating a socially just world.

Living Institutions:

Business and an ecological economy.

Sustainable technology.

Education for sustainability.

A Humane and Ecological Culture : focus on quality, learning, loving, diversity, respect, ecology, enough.


The Work of Evolutionary LeadersThe Work of Evolutionary Leaders Mobilizing people to transform our politics, institutions, and

culture, inspired by a vision of a better society, a sustainable society.

Creating networks of leaders and organizations that support each other in the evolution toward a sustainable world.

Changing the game from an unsustainable economic system, a culture of conspicuous consumption, a culture that glorifies material consumption as the road to happiness, to a value system based on quality, human dignity, learning, love, spiritual wisdom, and ecological sustainability


The Resources and the OpportunitiesThe Resources and the Opportunities

We have the scientific and technological knowledge to solve our major world challenges.

We also possess biological, psychological, and sociological knowledge to educate and transform humans.

Our organizational knowledge and sustainability principles will allow us to design institutions that could support evolution toward sustainable societies.


BibliographyBibliography

The Hidden Connections. Fritjof Capra. Fritjof Capra.

Critical Path. R. Buckminster Fuller.Critical Path. R. Buckminster Fuller.

Collapse. Jared Diamond.

Design Futuring. & Politics as Design. Tony Fry.

Great Transition. Paul Raskin et al. wwwGTInitiative.org Paul Raskin et al. wwwGTInitiative.org

The Real Wealth of Nations. Riane Eisler.

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. William William McDonough & Michael Braungart.McDonough & Michael Braungart.

Natural Capitalism. Paul Hawken, Amory & L.Hunter Lovins. Paul Hawken, Amory & L.Hunter Lovins.

Envisioning a Sustainable Society. Lester.W. Milbrath. Lester.W. Milbrath.

Sustainability by Design John R. Ehrenfeld. R John R. Ehrenfeld. R

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