The Role of Conscious Elders

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Leaders as Elders, Stewards, and Tuning Forks is one of the chapters in Jeffrey Deckman’s award winning book, Developing the Conscious Leadership Mindset for the 21st Century. Jeffery writes, “elders are not in pursuit of leadership roles they’re in pursuit of consciousness.” In our Conscious Leadership in Action conversation, Jeffrey talks about the role of conscious elders. Elders have a calming effect and observe a lot. They observe more than they act, but when they act, they act with precision and efficiency. Elders don’t have to be super old. They could be wise, they could be an old soul. These are people who listen to understand and speak to be understood. They’re patient, they’re more […]

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Leaders of Consciousness

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Different states of awareness or levels of consciousness exist in our universe. In this Conscious Leadership in Action conversation, Charlie Efford relates these levels of consciousness to octaves on a musical scale, each having a number of notes within it. Higher octaves mean higher levels of consciousness. During our conversation, Charlie Efford provided a fascinating description of the color coded spirals described by Frederic Laloux in Reinventing Organizations and Don Beck and Christopher Cowan in Spiral Dynamics, with references to vertical and horizontal learning. Charlie suggested that a lot of the work around conscious leadership is probably coming out of the green level of consciousness, maybe tipping a little bit towards teal, and raised the […]

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Tales of Conscious Leadership - GCfCL

Tales of Conscious Leadership

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Facts, figures, budgets, outcomes…so far, so normal in the business meetings and leadership training sessions I typically sit in on.  Heads are full of data, obstacles and concrete mountains to climb, speedily, in the quest for running companies successfully in an ever more competitive and ‘squeezed’ environment.  Bodies become, as Pete Hamill of Embodied Leadership writes, simply vehicles to move our brains around from one meeting to the next. And yet today something different happened.  And it happens every time I address a group and start to talk about the possibilities of being more human as a leader.  Human connections, authenticity, bringing your heart and values to your leadership of others so that they can […]

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Survival Tips for Conscious Leaders - GCfCL.com

Survival Tips for Conscious Leaders

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Conscious Leaders are well suited to the challenges of leading their companies into an uncertain and complex future. They combine deep levels of self-awareness, self-mastery and intuitive insight with an expanded perspective towards the wider system, taking in multiple factors and connections. They can find the simplicity in chaos and make sense of complexity.  By keeping the following tips in mind when they are faced with the challenge of leading their organisation to adapt to the future, conscious leaders can check their pace and move forward at the right speed, allowing better solutions to emerge from the ground up. The Setting In a world where we face unprecedented levels of complexity, globalization, pace and change, […]

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