Whether you are trying to extract energy and interest for home renovations from a tired body and a disillusioned soul, or cultivate a healthy community around a career as an IAQ specialist, this article authored by Vibhas Ratanjee, from the latest Forbes brings an innovative fresh perspective for the New Year:
‘I’ve spent nearly three decades studying why organizations fail to engage their people. The numbers are brutal and getting worse. Globally, only 21% of employees are engaged at work. Trust in leadership has been declining for decades. Only a third of global workers are thriving in life. The engagement crisis is urgent and all pervasive.
I brought these numbers to Otto Scharmer expecting him to talk about strategy, structure or systems. Instead, he reframed everything.
“What you’re describing is the pollution of social soil,” he told me.
Scharmer is a senior lecturer at MIT and founding chair of the Presencing Institute. For years, he has studied organizational transformation across sectors and continents. His collaboration with systems thinker Peter Senge on learning organizations produced the book Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future. His Theory U framework, developed through extensive field research with leaders and innovators worldwide, maps the inner journey that makes outer transformation possible.
“I grew up on a regenerative farm in Germany,” Scharmer told me. “My parents were pioneers of biodynamic agriculture in the 1950s. The first thing my father taught me was simple: the quality of everything growing above the soil, including the quality of the harvest, is a function of the quality of the….click here to read more
