Now, You’re In Motion
(In a Divided World)
In my last article, I wrote about the importance of finding fellow travelers when you are trying to do something new or change something for which there are no good maps. Once you bravely take that first step, though, what’s next? How do you find the people and foster the conditions for real and lasting change?
The seeds of innovation necessary to achieve real breakthroughs is already all around us. Often we don’t do a good enough job of creating the conditions for people, with the right set of disparate ideas, to understand that the missing piece might be sitting just on the other side of what feels like an intractable divide, though.
Many of us haven’t learned to react with curiosity in the face of difference and so have little experience with the power that discovering such breakthroughs can bring.
In a world that feels more divided than ever, finding lasting solutions requires a new kind of leadership — focused on building the organizations and systems that support and reward a different and better way of doing things. Breakthrough leaders are needed to get there. If you’re here and reading this, you might be one of them.
