Manuel Manga

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

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Evolutionary Leadership for a Just, Flourishing, Evolutionary Leadership for a Just, Flourishing, and Sustainable Worldand Sustainable World

THE EVOLUTIONARY CRISIS

The Critical Path toward Sustainability

Robert, K-H. 2000

Time

Increasing resource

demand

Diminishing resources

Sustainable Demand

Available offerRegenerative Economy

Sustainable Society

The Evolutionary Crisis leading toward Collapse

The Funnel Model by The Natural Step.

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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

THE CHALLENGES OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: SEVEN UNSUSTAINABLE CONDITIONS

Climate change/ rising seas. Population growth Poverty Unsustainable economic systems and

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

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HOW DID WE GET HERE ?

What are the historical narratives that got us here?

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

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THE PURPOSE OF EVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP

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

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

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8The Great Transition Toward Sustainability

Sustainable World

Evolution of Self- Mind-Complexity of Consciousness

Institutional Evolution- Systemic Sustainability

Cultural Evolution

The Evolutionary Crisis:An Unsustainable World.

The Work ofEvolutionaryLeaders.

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PROXIMATE AND ULTIMATE DRIVERS –TELLUS INSTITUTE)

Ultimate Drivers

Knowledge and Understanding

Power Structure

CultureValues and Needs

Proximate Drivers

Population Economy Technology Governance

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THREE TYPES OF EVOLUTION TOWARD A JUST & SUSTAINABLE WORLD An evolution of mind- consciousness

An ecological mindset. An evolutionary mind. A systems-oriented way of seeing the world.

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

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

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Forms of development that

satisfy the needs of the present, while at the same time safeguarding the capacity of future generations to meet their own needs.

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SUSTAINABILITY

Sustainability is the possibility that human and other

forms of life will flourish on the Earth forever. John R. Ehrenfeld

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WHAT DO EVOLUTIONARY LEADERS DO ?

Evolutionary Leaders are people that declare possible what other people do not

They declare a vision for a future, they generate worlds and actions through language and conversations.

Work on adaptive challenges

Think big, systemic and strategic

Promote learning, change, evolution

Make choices , Mobilize people & Action

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SEVEN COMPETENCIES OF AN EVOLUTIONARY LEADER : A SYSTEM FORPERSONAL AND SOCIAL EVOLUTION

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1.Personal 1.Personal Evolution/Evolution/

Evolution ofEvolution ofConsciousnessConsciousness

2.2. Emotions &Emotions &GenerativeGenerativeLanguageLanguage

3.Systems 3.Systems Being & Being & ThinkingThinking

5.Systemic5.SystemicSustainabilitySustainability

4. Ontological4. OntologicalDesigningDesigning

6.Adaptive6.AdaptiveWork &Work &

CollaborationCollaboration

7.Evolutionary7.EvolutionaryPrinciples &Principles &ScenariosScenarios

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An evolutionary leadership competency

Commits to transforming your personal ontology/understanding of self : as a systemic being, emotional, linguistic and relational/cultural being.

Commits to transform the type of observer that you are: transform your mind, develop an evolutionary mind/consciousness, your assumptions, mental models, narratives. Become a new observer of the world.

Commits to taking a stand/ a declared purpose for social evolution, to contribute to bring forth a just, flourishing, sustainable world.

Commits to learn to learn for life. Including reading and reading the world. This learning will expand your evolutionary mind and the type of observer that you are.

Commits to becoming an evolutionary leader, applying the competencies of evolutionary leadership to take action, mobilize people, make a difference either locally and or globally.

Personal Personal EvolutionEvolution

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An evolutionary leadership competency

Emotions and Words

Historical Narratives

Conversations and

Vocabularies

Speech Acts

Emotions,Emotions,Language &Language &GenerativeGenerative

conversationsconversations

LANGUAGE, CONVERSATIONS

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

Everything human takes place in language and conversations.

Collaboration is about a shared vision and is based on networks of conversations.

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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 Systems ThinkingThinking

An evolutionary leadership competency

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SocialSystems

TechnologicalSystemsLiving

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NaturalSystems

Types of Systems

THE SYSTEMIC NATURE OF OUR GLOBAL PROBLEMS

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 - in our culture, we don’t see systems.

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THE EVOLUTIONARY CRISIS: A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

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Hunger

Poverty

Oppression of Women

AIDSPopulation

Growth

Obsolete worldviews &

Patterns of leadership

Culture & lifestyle

of consumerism

Unsustainable Economic Systems

Environmental destruction &

Climate changeResource wars

& WMD’s

Need for oil supplies

& energy

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ScienceScience

Evolutionary Leadership

Competencies

LeadershipLeadership

SystemsSystems

Sustainability Knowledge

Multi-Sector Institutional Application

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Natural Capitalism.

Designing with sustainability

Population stabilized /social justice

Ecological culture and institutions.

Natural ontology.+R

Natural Capitalism and an Ecological Culture

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An evolutionary leadership competency

Understands sustainability as composed of three dimensions: Human, Institutional, and Environmental. All contribute to flourishing.

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

SYSTEMIC SUSTAINABILITY A new paradigm in which human

beings reclaim their sense of their place in the natural world. It is the ethical domain of doing the right thing.

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

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

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HUMAN

SUSTAINABILITY

INSTITUTIONAL

SUSTAINABILITY

ENVIRONMENTAL

SUSTAINABILITY

SYSTEMIC SUSTAINABILITY

HUMAN SUSTAINABILITY : HUMAN NEEDS MET IN A JUST SOCIETY

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9 FundamentalHuman Needs

Identity Freedom

Participation

Leisure

Creativity

Subsistence

Understanding

Protection

Affection

Source:Manfred Max-Neef, 1991

INSTITUTIONAL SUSTAINABILITY

Our key institutions ( Economics, Government, Education, Religion, Media) transform their purpose toward the caring and well being of humans and biosphere, promoting a culture-civilization of flourishing, prosperity, and sustainability.

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

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THE 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

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An evolutionary leadership competency

Ontological Design is the conscious design of the Self , Our Mind, and Becoming Human by Design.

Ontological Design is being conscious that everything we design should be done with ethics and sustainability in mind, in this sense paying attention to the systemic consequences of our design, artifacts, etc.

We are all designers.

Ontological design is also recognizing that what we design also comes back to shape us/ designs us, in conscious or unconscious ways.

Ontological Ontological Design:EthicsDesign:Ethics

And And SustainabilitySustainability

THE 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 The Hidden Connections

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DESIGNING WITH SUSTAINABILITY

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

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

It is the art of creating something that did not exist before.

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THE 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.

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Designing 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

Qualitative growth

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An evolutionary leadership competencyAdaptive Adaptive

Challenges-Challenges-WorkWork

•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.

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society

Culture/

Civil Society

Polity

Economy

Evolutionary Leaderswork with all three

CollaborationCollaboration

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

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An evolutionary leadership competency

Understands our evolutionary history: Cosmic, Biological ( we are one human family, we are 99.9 the same by DNA, we all came out of Africa), 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

EvolutionaryEvolutionary principles and principles and

ScenariosScenarios

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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.

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Learning to Create Sustainable Societies

FUNNEFUNNELL

2012 and beyond . . .Sustainable Sustainable SocietySociety

Systems

Science

2012Current Unsustainable World

Learning

THE EVOLUTIONARY JOURNEY: JONAS JONAS SALKSALK

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 participation in and contribution to the process of evolution. Acceptance and acknowledgement of this responsibility and creative engagement in the process of meta-biological evolution consciously would bring forth a new reality.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY The Hidden Connections. Fritjof Capra.

Becoming Human by Design. Tony Fry.

Great Transition. Paul Raskin et al. wwwGTInitiative.org

The Real Wealth of Nations. Riane Eisler.

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

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

Envisioning a Sustainable Society. Lester.W. Milbrath.

Sustainability by Design John R. Ehrenfeld. R

Design Futuring. Sustainability, Ethics, and New practice. Tony Fry.

The Necessary Revolution. Peter Senge, Sara Schley, others.

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