Mastery in the Metacrisis
The year 2024 has been dubbed by some as the year of the CEO exodus, with many high profile CEOs leaving their post. Whatever their reasons for this, it does point to leadership changing at the highest level of companies. We are in a new world. CEOs have counted on best practices to navigate through change, except the idea of best practices is being more and more challenged.
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The year 2024 has been dubbed by some as the year of the CEO exodus, with many high profile CEOs leaving their post. Whatever their reasons for this, it does point to leadership changing at the highest level of companies. We are in a new world. CEOs have counted on best practices to navigate through change, except the idea of best practices is being more and more challenged.
If it is true that the smallest amount of coherence can have a big effect when there is great chaos, ie. the polycrisis/metacrisis we are in now, being clear on the way we choose our next step and take action is an important exploration. In previous times of major shifts, we’d have an insight that would open a new pathway for a business and that insight might serve for decades. Think Nike’s Air Jordan, a brand aha that served the company for decades. This world, in which chaos is happening on a daily basis (this is called being at the far point), we will need to bring coherence on a daily basis. What is the level of mind needed to have insightful realizations (a form of coherence) ongoingly?
It’s possible to cultivate masterfulness as the way you bring coherence to the far point. Culturally, we have moved away from mastery as a necessary aspect of leadership. There was a time when great writers, artists, musicians, and business leaders would dedicate their lifetime to develop the mastery necessary, to ultimately change their domain. Martha Graham changed the domain of dance; Steve Jobs changed the domain of a computer/tech business. If we lose touch with mastery as a necessary aspiration to reach for, we begin to lower what we think is possible for ourselves and the world.
The ongoing practices for masterfulness is what allows you to bring coherence on a daily and weekly basis to your domain of work. It can be an antidote to making decisions from fear, anxiety, reactivity. Do you have access to an ongoing practice of building masterfulness?
Led by Jill Taylor, CEO of the HuPerson Project and former CEO of Burgerville and Daniel Goodenough, co-founder of The HuPerson Project and author of The Caravan of Remembering, we invite you to join us for a provocative conversation.
Let’s explore together what’s emerging for a life-giving future that wants to happen. This event is a prelude to our 9 month offer, Leading Beyond the Far Point, where you’ll be introduced to practices to support building masterfulness.
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Although we may find ourselves at a historical moment rich in possibilities for mastery, in which more and more people can move toward their inclination, we face one last obstacle in attaining such power, one that is cultural and insidiously dangerous: The very concept of mastery has become denigrated, associated with someone old-fashioned and even unpleasant. It is generally not seen as something to aspire to.
Robert Greene
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