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| Dare to Dream: an excerpt from Oracle of the Obvious: Secrets to Common Sense Leadership by Ray Jorgensen, Ph.D and Dena Hurst, Ph.D |
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Dare to Dream: an excerpt from Oracle of the Obvious: Secrets to Common Sense Leadership by Ray Jorgensen, Ph.D and Dena Hurst, Ph.D You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness that you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the hour of new clarity. (Ranier Maria Rilke) The real work of leaders—the single most important thing a leader does—is create and hold a dream, a vision of what the world, or some part of it, will be in the future. Once this picture is developed and articulated, leaders enroll others by matching personal visions of success with the enterprise vision or dream to create common aspiration. Leaders share that dream daily with people so they can help make it happen by recognizing how accomplishing their personal vision supports the enterprise dream.Leaders believe in the people who are working to make it happen. Dreams give you purpose, something to aspire to. They are the outlet for your creative mind. They allow you to see what can be, without any limitations, and provide the desire to see the dream become reality for both the individual and the organization. Otto Scharmer of the Presencing Institute beautifully described the power of dreams in his book, Theory U. Dreams have the power to take hold of us, to compel us forward at all levels—consciously, subconsciously, and unconsciously. Once we have enrolled in a dream, it becomes something that we must do; in fact, we can’t not do it. Without the capacity to suspend the voices of judgment, fear and cynicism, we would not find what Scharmer called the “place of most potential.” We discipline ourselves to suspend, to change the habits of the past, so that we can enter a “new place of inquiry and wonder.” An edge to this description of dreams that must be surfaced is that in order to change, in order to have and hold the dream, we must willingly let go of our old selves in order to give birth to the new. We must surrender to the future as it comes towards us. |
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