1. UNLEASH AND ENCOURAGE OUR CREATIVE TALENTS
- Encourage creative thinking to augment and expand rational thinking.
- Recognize that every individual is both being and becoming simultaneously, continually growing and changing.
- Incorporate flexible procedures, rules, and standards, as well as versatile personal roles.
- Base contributions on the unique way each person can make the organization and the world a better place.
2. CONNECT ALL PARTS OF THE SYSTEM TO EACH OTHER
- Integrate the new and the different, embracing the enrichment of diversity.
- Offer individual responsibility and self-fulfillment to all people.
- Base the social systems on the premise that we are interconnected and interdependent.
- Replace conflict and competition with trust and cooperation.
- Unify previously separated activities, roles, and functions.
3. SHIFT THE ANCHOR OF THE PAST TO THE PULL OF THE FUTURE
- Create a shared and compelling vision of an ideal future.
- Make day-to-day decisions based on that vision, not on the past.
- Assure that all people have the opportunity to contribute to the vision.
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Through my office window, Minneapolis, MN.
Page 06 in the Kaleidoscope lens on Resilience.
Adapted from Breakpoint and Beyond by George Land and Beth Jarman, 1992.