Leadership

If we see Barack Obama in the midst of an excited crowd of admirers, are we more likely to see him as charismatic?

According to Pastor and his colleagues, we are.  But don’t get excited, you uncharismatic leaders out there.  Simply persuading your supporters to get excited won’t substitute for your own charisma – you’ve got to have that, first.  Only then, with your own charisma established, will the sight of your excited supporters increase observers’ belief that you are charismatic.

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Let's do that again!

That's my reaction to yesterday's "Integral Leadership in an Emergent World" one-day workshop. We had a perfectly sized group (16) of spectacular participants and, by all accounts, the first-ever (according to Ken Wilber) workshop dedicated to the integration of Integral Theory and Creative Emergence was a success.

As I've mentioned in earlier blogs, this workshop was an exploration of how the broad framework of Integral Theory and the Principles of Creative Emergence can be used by leaders to create breakthroughs in the workplace.

My co-facilitator, Michelle James, CEO of the Center for Creative Emergence, is a veteran facilitator and an expert in creative emergence. While I've led more than my share of Integral Theory-based workshops, seminars, and Intensives, it was Michelle's expert infusion of emergent principles and processes into this jam-packed workshop that set this workshop apart from other Integral Theory educational experiences.