Right Perception and RIght Sense making are the fundamental outcomes of our cognitive ability that enable effective leaders take enlightened action.
Possibly, most problems that we create through our actions are a result of wrong perception and wrong sense-making.
To me, Perceiving, Sense-making and Enlightened Action in life is something like this:
“Any real life System about which we care to perceive, make sense and take enlightened action, comprises of a meaningful set of ever changing and self transforming objects, diverse in form, complexity, state and function, interacting in periodic and aperiodic manner with each other and inter-related through multiple network of interdependencies through mutual feedbacks and signals thereby generating variable amplitudes of energy exchanged/transferred within variable/flexible space(s), mostly operating far from its equilibrium conditions; not only exchanging energy and matter with its environment but also generating internal entropy to undergo discrete transformation triggered by the Arrow of Time forcing it to behave in a dissipative but self organizing manner to either self destruct itself in a wide variety of ways moving towards void or create new possibilities in performance and/or behaviour from the void of creative potential owing to presence of ‘attractors’ and ‘appearance of bi-furcations’; thereby making it impossible to predict the future behavior of the system in the long term or trace the previous states of the system with any high degree of accuracy other than express it in terms of probabilities or possibilities since only the present state of the system might be observable to a certain extent and only a probabilistic understanding may be formulated as to how a system has arrived at its present state and what would keep it going, change or destroyed thus triggering creative human responses through right insights (not grossly based on emotions or thinking or memory) to manage, maintain and enhance system conditions, functions and purposes with minimal intervention to create superior systems of the future through enhancement of self organized interactions within and without the system interfaced with other connected, unconnected and overlapping systems operating within larger envelopes of human activity.”
Such a representation of an Perception, Sense-making and Enlightened Action looks quite involved.
Perhaps it might be stated in a much simpler ways but I would not attempt to do so since it would make it more complex that it should be.
Perhaps more can be said about resilience, agility, etc but I would not do so since those are really superfluous.
Perhaps more can be said about Black Swans and not so ‘black swans’ and predictions but I would care less to say so since saying more would be ‘redundant’.
The whole gamut of Perception, Sense-making and Enlightened Action takes place within five envelopes of human cognition, which are as follows:
1. Physical envelope
2. Energy envelope
3. Mental envelope
4. Wisdom envelope
5. Enlightened Action envelope
However, the crux of the matter is
1) how we ‘see’ reality (Darshan/Notice)?
2) how do we understand what the system is telling us (Sadhana/Engage)?
3) how do we create and choose our responses (Bhavana/Mull)?
4) how do we develop the necessary intention to implement our choices to life and living (Shankalpa/Exchange)?
notes:
1. Darshan, Sadhana, Bhavana and Shankalpa are Sanskrit words
2. The above post is an excerpt from or notes of a forth coming book “Leadership – The Nemetics Way!”
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