Untangling Power
- Practice
- Daily journal: where did you deploy power today? Where did others? What aspects of each deployment of power did you find praiseworthy? Blameworthy?
- Inquiry
- What do I take power to be? What would it cost me to hold it openly, and what does it cost the situation when I decline it?
Untangling Power
- Readings
- Untangling Power.
Benefiting the Totality
- Practice
- Daily journal: what is my totality, today, in concrete detail? How might I benefit this totality?
- Inquiry
- What is in my actual totality that I am unseeing? What of the aesthetic I look with is authentically owned by me, vs. a how I believe I should see?
Moral aesthetics
- Readings
- Developing Beneficent Power; Ornamenting Being.
Supplementary: Richard Rorty, Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism.
Adult development
- Readings
- Introduction to Adult Development; the Selected Notes on Adult Developmental Theory; Flipping Kegan: Interaction-First.
Supplementary: Robert Kegan, The Evolving Self.
Realized aesthetic
- Readings
- Power Tangles; Frontier Cultivation.
Supplementary: Philip M. Lewis, The Discerning Heart.
Effective Power
- Practice
- Exercise beneficent power in one way everyday.
- Inquiry
- Where could I act boldly to make a difference? Where would it benefit the totality by exerting force to move forward without requiring total agreement? Where might I build trust and reputation that could be deployed in coalitions? What would it mean to attract others into a vision of the future?
Contact with actuality
- Readings
- Principles of Effective Power; Beneficent Power.
Supplementary: Gary Klein, Sources of Power.
Emergence from vision
- Readings
- Principles of Effective Power; selected Resonant Maneuvers chapters.
Supplementary: Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social.
Cohesion
- Readings
- Principles of Effective Power; A Checklist for Group Cohesion and Aliveness.
Supplementary: George Pransky, The Relationship Handbook.
Boldness and agility
- Readings
- Principles of Effective Power.
Supplementary: Peter Thiel, Zero to One.
Seeing Nobly
- Practice
- Identify one trade-off currently entailed by your domain of care, where someone or something is going to lose regardless of your action. Sit with it. Do not resolve it conceptually.
- Inquiry
- What problems that were intractable as "right answers to find", when seen as trade-offs become workable ?
Trade-offs
- Readings
- Beneficent Power; Contemporary Nobility: Three Aspects; The "Solution" to All Dilemmas.
Supplementary: the Erhard Leadership Course
Seeing nobly
- Readings
- Quotidian Nobility; relevant Selected Notes from Politics.
Supplementary: Nobility Arc by David Chapman.
Creating Together
- Practice
- Have emergent conversations with each member of your team.
- Inquiry
- Who might inform me about aspects of the situation that I am unfamiliar with? Where would it be most effective to concentrate our collective energy right now? What is the right coupling of control for the situation?
Collective meaning
- Readings
- Resonant Maneuvers: Introduction; Resonant Maneuvers as Earth.
Supplementary: Peter Hershock, Liberating Intimacy.
Concentration and dispersion
- Readings
- Resonant Maneuvers as Water; Resonant Maneuvers as Fire.
Supplementary: Niklas Luhmann, Trust.
Loose coupling
- Readings
- Resonant Maneuvers as Air; A Checklist for Group Cohesion and Aliveness.
Supplementary: Ivari & Nolan, "Harmonization Emergence".
Emergent Challenges
- Practice
- Journal everyday: In every situation I participate in, what is initiating? splitting? unifying? being removed? entering? accumulating as potential?
- Inquiry
- What is it to adapt in the midst of these transformations?
Transformations
- Readings
- Resonant Maneuvers as Space; the essay's Recognition of Transformations section.
Supplementary: John Boyd, A Discourse on Winning and Losing.
Beneficent Power
- Practice
- The Simplest Exercise of Searchlessness and the Simplest Exercise of Responsiveness.
- Inquiry
- Avoiding relationship?
Searchless Responsiveness
- Readings
- Developing Beneficent Power; Realization of Completeness.
Supplementary: Charlie Awbery, Opening Awareness.