Leadership Change Comes from the Heart

I am really getting into Otto Scharmer's work after working with the wonderful Dale Hunter in a Facilitation Master Class in August:

"The key leadership challenge of our time is to shift the inner place from which we operate. As individuals, as teams, as institutions, and as societies we all face the same issue: that doing 'more of the same' won't fix flawed and failed systems. We have to leave behind our old tools and behaviors, and immerse ourselves in the places of most potential. We have to listen with our minds and hearts wide open, and then connect with our deep sources of knowing and self. It's only when we pass through this eye of the needle-letting go of the old and letting come the emerging self-that we can begin to step into our real power: the power to collectively sense and create the world anew. Theory U describes a social grammar and practical methods for such a transformative leadership journey."

-- Otto Scharmer's take on the essence of leadership today - from his blog
(http://www.blog.ottoscharmer.com/?p=169)