Fragments: The Keys To Capability
I’ve been working on a series of longer pieces around Social Leadership as i explore the idea of a 3rd Edition of the Social Leadership Handbook, or possibly a separate book around the subject.
Today, thinking about Collective Capability, and the idea of the ‘key’. We talk about ‘unlocking potential’, but a key fits a single lock. When we consider ‘collective’, we may either need to think about many keys, or many locks, or simply that the metaphor is outdated (and possibly autocratic and controlling in any case).
So what – or who – unlocks capability… or frees it?
Reflecting that we act upon each other: through our words, actions, but also the folklorethat surrounds us (of success or failure).
That learning is not a linear process, but that some connections re-contextualise that which came before.
So – perhaps – leadership is an act of re-contextualisation?
Is the key something made or traded? Or is curiosity, or learning, a lock-pick?
A reminder to myself to research when locks were invented – because i assume it was by people who had power (or wealth) and wished to retain it. Or that the knowledge was locked away. Or was it to lock people up?
Locks as the act of separation and division. Keys as power.
More on this tomorrow.
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10 个月Julian Stodd Thank you for continuing to add new elements to my learning journey. Unlocking or Revealing. The team Regenesis Group and regenerative development and design suggest that potential is inherent within place(place, organisation, ecosystem) and as a regenerative practitioner our work is to actualise the unique valuing potential. So from that perspective “actualising” may be a more desiresble/effective way to update folklore / metaphore, or from the tantric traditions / wisdom … 5 acts of god…”revealing” maybe an alternative. My Working Out Loud …The potential of a living system is revealed / actualised through beneficial and holistic collective action that is mediated and moderated by the inherent levels of vitality, capability and capacity available at a piont in time. Happy Days!