From the Book - First edition.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: OPENING -- An Invitation to the Nobility of Leadership -- What Time Is It on the Clock of the World? -- Who Do We Choose to Be? -- Two Lenses -- Science of Living Systems -- The Pattern of Collapse of Complex Civilizations -- Form Follows Function: The Design of This Book -- Dwelling Mind -- 1.The Arrow Of Time -- Everything Has a Beginning, a Middle, and an End -- What Science Teaches -- Facing Reality -- The Rise and Fall of Civilizations -- The Decline of Civilizations in Ten Generations -- The Myth of Progress -- The Religion of "Technological Majesty" -- Tipping Points -- Claiming Leadership -- Choosing to Lead Well in Collapse -- Leading an Island of Sanity -- Restoring Sanity -- Where Is Your Organization on the Arrow of Time? -- Leading from the Future -- 2.Identity -- Living Systems Change in Order to Preserve Themselves -- What Science Teaches -- Facing Reality -- Identity Then and Now -- The Rise of Celebrity Culture --
Contents note continued: The Compelling Call of Identity -- Whatever Happened to Ethics? -- Claiming Leadership -- "We are faithful; therefore we are not afraid" -- Restoring Sanity -- Leading with Integrity -- 3.Information -- It's Better to Learn Than Be Dead -- What Science Teaches -- Facing Reality -- Information Makes a Difference -- How the Digital Age Destroyed the Information Age -- What Happened to Learning? -- Neural Networks Can Herd Cats -- Claiming Leadership -- Restoring Learning to Decision Making -- The Origin of a Great Line -- Restoring Sanity -- The Principles and Process of an After Action Review (AAR) -- Dealing with the Impossible -- 4.Self-Organization -- Order for Free -- What Science Teaches -- Facing Reality -- When Humans Self-Organize -- The Unstoppable Rise of Terror -- Leading with Self-Organization: Social Movements and Terrorism -- Claiming Leadership -- Leadership Lessons from Social Movements -- Restoring Sanity --
Contents note continued: Grace Lee Boggs: A Lifetime of Movement Building -- Q: How Do You Self-Organize an Island of Sanity? -- A: You Rely on Human Human Beings -- 5.Perception -- What You See Is All You Get -- What Science Teaches -- Facing Reality -- The Blinders of Inexplicable Arrogance -- Cognitive Dissonance -- Cognitive Dissonance and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) -- Conspiracy Theories -- Claiming Leadership -- Depending on Diversity -- Restoring Sanity -- A Tale of Two Stories -- 6.Interconnectedness -- Nothing Living Lives Alone -- What Science Teaches -- Facing Reality -- When There Is No Place Called Home -- Emergent Systems Can't Be Changed -- Claiming Leadership -- Leading with Emergence -- Restoring Sanity -- The Joy of Interbeing -- You Can't Build on Broken -- 7.Who Do We Choose To Be? -- Leadership and the Collapse of Complexity -- Naming Ourselves -- What Do You Stand For? -- Where Do You Stand? -- The Gift of Meaningful Work -- 8.No Matter What --
Contents note continued: Unshakable Confidence, Unquestioned Humility
Making Our Shoulders Strong
What Do You Want to Be Remembered For?
CODA: WHEN THERE IS NO REALITY.
