Visual Evidence: The Nature of Leadership

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Jackie Stevenson, Founder and CEO, The Spirit of Leadership, studies and convenes social leadership experiences found in nature that transform organizations and industry.

The photo album "Nature in Leadership" (below), describes Jackie's laboratory; a farm nestled in gently rolling hills not far from downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

Horses are the teachers and, combined with the ambiance of local prehistoric woods, the lab offers space and time for students to reflect on leadership in nature.  Teams share insights and discoveries that affect individual habits of leadership.  


  

Images help us broaden and connect value to our physical surroundings. The Nature in Leadership album enhances our understanding of the video interview Jackie shares with us below.

 

The Nature in Leadership - Introduction from I-Open on Vimeo.

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Photo Album: Judson Smart Living

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Image © Alice Merkel on Flickr

Judson Smart Living is a continuing care environment located in University Circle, Cleveland, Ohio. Judson is an accredited, not-for-profit continuing care retirement community that has served Northeast Ohio since 1906.

The Judson Album helps us understand surroundings and assets simply by taking the time to appreciate what we may otherwise overlook. Image albums are tools for face-to-face and online communities to develop a stronger sense of context for actual people and places.

You can learn how to nurture compassionate care for relationship building from Judson's Director of Resident Life, Lin Bartel, in this interview at I-Open on Vimeo.

More about Judson Retirement Communities and the tradition of care mentored by Elders and Care Partners in Eden Alternative communities.

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Copyright 2011 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 2563 Kingston Road Cleveland OH 44118

Dialogue & Inclusion: The Nature in Leadership

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 Photo: Alice Merkel

Jackie Stevenson, Founder and CEO, The Spirit of Leadership, is a thought leader and research practitioner studying how we relate to one another in meaningful ways to strengthen social engagement.

In the video below, Jackie shares a brief introduction about why her work applied in relation to nature, natural systems and fine-tuned through shared experiences with large animals - specifically horses -advances the discovery of successful leadership practice. We can apply all of these lessons to building social networks for collaboration in open innovation systems.

The Nature in Leadership - Introduction from I-Open on Vimeo.

Learn more about Jackie's insightful work at The Spirit of Leadership. We'll be posting the complete video interview, transcription and photo collection here soon.

Copyright 2010 Betsey Merkel and I-Open. Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works. Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) 4415 Euclid Ave Suite 301 Cleveland, Ohio 44103 USA 


Super Science Initiative: New Frontiers for Collaboration

Check out this website I found at innovation.gov.au

Australia and Ireland are investing in innovation and economic development based in universities focused on space and astronomy, marine and climate, and future industries.

These two forward thinking countries understand the direct connection between innovation, education, and economic development.

Beyond this, every country and region investing funds in innovation will need to invest as well in new habits of communication and collaboration.

One approach - COINs-collaborative innovation networks - is driven by swarm creativity and accelerates the formation of entrepreneurial cultures.

You can learn more about swarm creativity and COINs in this video interview with MIT research scientist, Peter Gloor. Additional resources are available here.

Get started by registering for the COINs2010 Conference and connect to this knowledge community exploring the emerging science of collaboration.

 

Isivivane Game - conversations that build trust and meaning for positive change

In Open Source Economic Development, civic leaders need to learn new practices and tools to extend and enhance their ability to engage with each other and with information to create new knowledge. New knowledge is what is generated from experience and applied to the industry of solving problems.

The Isivivane Game - Place Your Stone Upon the Pile - is one such practice. It creates immediate opportunities for leaders in government, business, and academia to build richer realities to engage in transformative action.

The game architects self constructed pathways that build new capacities for people to work together to be more creative, strengthen communications, and accelerate collaboration.

Practices introduce skills and tools people can rely on as they begin to interact in multidimensional ways. Growing comfortable in environments representing more than one reality is an aid to problem solving in the complex social, economic, and environmental situations affecting industry today. This is modern skills training.

By creating regular opportunities for experimental experiences in complexity - outside of daily work - organizations cultivate higher levels of performance and personal satisfaction, and stronger capabilties in individual decision making for wiser organizations.

From co-creator Steve Banhegyi:

"These are the cards with which the game is played - the questions on the cards are used to create knowledge by the participants - all centering around the central theme or 'organising principle' or 'strange attractor' the answer to the question : "what do we want?"

You can find Steve at I-Open on Strategy-Nets, Facebook, and @SteveBanhegyi on Twitter. Or, contact him directly at:

Steve Banhegyi & Associates
Art and Science of Change
steve@storytelling.co.za
Cell (South Africa) +27 (0)83 232-6047 / Fax +27 (0)86 635-4457
www.storytelling.co.za | www.trans4mation.co.za | isivivane.com