Beneficent Power

Readings

Introduction
Getting Ready

Marie Kondo — The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Contacting Care: An investigation of the varied shape and texture of your care as it shows up in your everyday life.

Referenced in Getting Ready: Contacting Care.

David Allen — Getting Things Done & Ready for Anything

Care into Action: Staying in contact with all that you care about and allowing action to flow from that.

Referenced in Getting Ready: Care into Action.

Patricia Ryan Madson — Improv Wisdom

Being Responsive: Responding to the situation as it reveals itself, not as conceived.

Referenced in Getting Ready: Being Responsive.

Bruce Di Marsico — The Collected Works (the Option Method)

Your Integrity: Rest in the perfect integrity of your fields of care.

Referenced in Getting Ready: Your Integrity.

Going Further

Richard Rorty — Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism

Moral aesthetics: Benefiting the totality with no foundation beneath it but your own aesthetic.

Referenced in Going Further: Benefiting the Totality.

Robert Kegan — The Evolving Self

Adult development: How the structure of meaning-making evolves, opening up new possibilities in how power is applied.

Referenced in Going Further: Benefiting the Totality.

Philip M. Lewis — The Discerning Heart: The Developmental Psychology of Robert Kegan

Realized aesthetic: The lived texture of orders of mind, and the capabilities of effective power they offer.

Referenced in Going Further: Benefiting the Totality.

Gary Klein — Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions

Contact with actuality: How experts respond effectively in complex and chaotic situations.

Referenced in Going Further: Effective Power.

Bruno Latour — Reassembling the Social

Emergence from vision: How the future co-emerges with the assembling of collective capacity.

Referenced in Going Further: Effective Power.

The Erhard Leadership Course (Werner Erhard, Michael Jensen, et al.)

Trade-offs: The art of creating a context that magnetizes a future that would not happen otherwise.

Referenced in Going Further: Seeing Nobly.

Peter Hershock — Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism

Collective meaning: Improvising to create benefit to the totality.

Referenced in Going Further: Creating Together.

Niklas Luhmann — Trust: A Mechanism for the Reduction of Social Complexity

Concentration and dispersion: Trust as allowing distributed intention.

Referenced in Going Further: Creating Together.

Johan Ivari & Annette Nolan — "Harmonization Emergence"

Loose coupling: Degrees of coupling in distributed intention.

Referenced in Going Further: Creating Together.

John Boyd — A Discourse on Winning and Losing

Transformations: Creating in the circustance of continual loss of knowing.

Referenced in Going Further: Emergent Challenges.