Personal Mastery
Definition:
- The discipline
of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision
- Focusing
our energy
- Developing
patience, temperance and attentiveness
- Making clear
the things that really matter to us
- Living our
lives in the service of our highest aspirations
What are the
principles of personal mastery in a learning organization?
- Clarifying
and deepening one’s personal vision
- Focusing
our thoughts and energies on thing that really matter to
us
- Developing
patience and temperance
- Seeing truth
objectively not just in snapshots
- Living our
lives in the service of our highest aspirations, virtues
and values
- Successfully
integrating reasoning and intuition
- Personal
connectedness, compassion and commitment to a shared vision
- The
spirit of the learning organization is the free will, open-mindedness
and way of thinking of its members
- It is important
that members understand how subconscious mind works in
establishing how one sees the world and chooses to take action
- Members seek
to respond to each others higher order needs
- These include
self-respect, self-actualization and personal empowerment.
Initial Focus:
- Clarifying
personal vision
- Making
Choices
- Holding
creative tension
- Focusing
on results
- Seeing
current reality
Holding Creative Tension Involves:
- Balancing
our vision and idealism with current reality of what is
really going on around us
- There must
always be a commitment to truth
- Remember
creative tension is a normal and necessary part of the healthy
growth of any individual or organization
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