Vision as emergent from an unspeakable centre

This place is the point of emergence. Our deepest values and visions cannot be said, cannot be fully expressed. When we put them into words, we are formulating an expression that, at best, captures the essence but never the full richness of the source. The greatest challenge of a leader is to connect their personal expression of vision and values to an organizational expression and a larger social expression which captures what is emergent and emerging. Such a powerful expression engages others and assists them in developing more powerful expressions for themselves. This leadership expression provides a structure of interpretation for the leader as well as others. It is a living, emerging structure of interpretation - both emotive and cognitive - for constant becoming. It calls forth the full possibilities of expression in life in the moment. We become trapped (by our inherited Western cosmology) into particular expressions, call them "the corporate vision", and lose the emergent, living, becoming source of our vision and values. We turn vision into outcome and goal - into direction of moving towards. In doing so, we lose the living power and beauty - and the adaptability and richness - of a coming from.

We stop listening for what wants to happen and start doing-with-force to make something no longer alive come into existence. We become alive again when we reclaim the living nature of vision, of emergence, of becoming as a wellspring, a source, a coming from which has both stability and mystery in it.