When I started writing this blog I didn’t really know where it would go. Even today, rather than have some grand plan for it, I stay open on a day to day basis for what I want to share with you. I am never quite sure what will emerge. What I know is that if I listen deeply to the messages within me, I will find exactly the right words to say or the right passage to share.

I am a voracious reader. I read multiple books at one time. It would be more accurate to say that I study more than one book at a time. You will rarely see me reading without a pen in hand. I can’t lend my books to people because I have underlined and written in them so much. For me, each book I pick up is like a journey. I like to capture, reflect on and apply what I am learning along the way.

I started a powerful new book this weekend called Theory U – Leading From the Future as it Emerges by C, Otto Schramer from MIT. This powerful book presents a new way of approaching leadership and change. I am sure I will share more about it with you as I travel through its journey. For now, I want to share the following passage.

“All people effect change, regardless of their formal positions or titles…The real battle in the world today is not among civilizations or cultures but among different evolutionary futures that are possible for us and our species right now. What is at stakes is nothing less than the choice of who we are, who we want to be, and where we want to take the world we live in. The real question is ‘what are we here for?’

Our old world leadership is crumbling similar to the way the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989. What’s necessary today is not only a new approach to leadership. We need to go beyond the concept of leadership. We must discover a more profound and practical integration of head, heart, and hand – of the intelligences of the open mind, open heart, and open will – at both an individual and collective level”