Transforming Paradigm: Evolving Perspective, Purpose, and Performance

 

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This is a recent dawning in personal competency, both functionally and developmentally speaking, benefiting both business and life.  It is a r/evolutional stratum-shift in integral learning and functioning within and integrative of the fields of self, leadership, organizational, consciousness, and spiritual development.  These dynamics are best suited for progressively growth-oriented individuals with a propensity for personal, professional, and organizational development, and who have an awakening inclination toward their growth in consciousness in business and living.  This could be executives, partnerships, leadership teams, consultants, life coaches, psychotheraptists and any individuals wanting to open into a higher/deeper stratum of developmental dynamics of consciousness for their application in/as business and life.

Key to your emerging and developing an ontologically evolutional consciousness is your understanding, opening into, and engaging the evolutional/creational nature of human consciousness as a state of presencing self "in the now".

This is huge, as developmental dynamics go.  Opening into evolutional-consciousness is leading-edge territory in consciousness development and functioning, particularly in business.  It is a macro-scope kind of undertaking, somewhat analogous to us "fish" not only realizing that we're "in water" (i.e., in consciousness), but learning how to leverage this knowing for advancing our competencies and wellbeing in business and life, AND for doing so in a naturally developmental way over time.

If you are familiar with the work of such authors as Ken Wilber, Andrew Cohen, Eckhart Tolle, and such, and want to learn how to apply such principles of being and presence in business, you're at the right site.  Discover "presence and being" that isn't passive and non-engaging, but highly integral to the rigors and demands of business life.

Note: I know many of us don't like a lot of print-material on a website.  But for those who like to start "diving in" when cutting-edge material is being advanced, this is for you.  For an elaboration of the subject matters on this site, see my new book,

Our Emerging Spirituality of Business:

The Rigors Of Business Co-Emerging With Our Essence As Spirit As A Natural Evolution of Human Consciousness Into Greater Competencies, Higher Advantages, and Deeper Wellbeing.

To read some excerpts from the book click here now or, in future visits, click "The Book" tab on the upper left of any page of this site.

Evolve, Or Don't: A Present Era Choice

When we look at any aspect of business and life we can easily see that everything is evolving (regardless of our philosophical perspective or bias about such notions) be it our products and services, our ways of thinking and understanding, innovations, technology, products, management systems, approaches to leadership, financial accounting, and even our spirituality.  We're also getting better at accepting that change is a constant.  That is, change is not only inevitable, the pace of change is continually increasing, as well as becoming more complex.  Very complex.  I'm guessing you've noticed.  However, although we might be grasping these awarenesses intellectually, we're still not very good at making the best of it in a functional way in our daily thinking, feeling, and actions: our performance.  We haven't yet developed a personal competency for being more authentically and potently present, interpersonally responsive and engaging, consciously and mentally agile, even getting beyond being merely pro-active about dealing with change or in dealing with all the complexities impacting our business and life that are emerging from our "evolutional currents", by whatever terminology.  

In business as in life, we must continue to evolve or deal with not doing so.  This has many pragmatic ramifications.  It means 1) losing any edge we had, as well as any benefits of having been at that edge.  This also usually means 2) losing our capability for staying at our edge, for continuing to function from that edge.  As such, we certainly also lose the benefits of riding or playing at our evolvingadvantedge, for knowing how to repeatedly re-generate the best capabilities in ourselves, as ourselves, and for ourselves, as well as for others.  

Sustainable Solutions

We want solutions that are actual personal competencies, not just stop gap measures and quick fixes (e.g., the usual such as product developments, killer apps, organizational re-engineering, leadership trainings, a new CEO, etc.), for more naturally addressing this evolutional dynamic, and its effects, in and around us.  And we need to do so on evolution's terms as well as our own, integrally, so it is sustainable.  That is, to do so without unduly trying to control it or fit it into how our business-as-usual thinking wants it to be. 

A Crutial Distinction

You might be thinking, "Why should I care?"  At first take, opening into an evolutional-consciousness might seem simple enough since it is, in fact, well, natural.  However, it's just not normal for us--and this is a crucial distinction.  What most of us don't realize is that our evolutional progression in consciousness is both natural and organic only to the extent that we don't inhibit it, knowingly or otherwise.  But, unfortunately, being preoccupied with and overly attached to "command and control" strategies in business and life, we have, effectively, unwittingly habituated a learned-resistance, an internalized inhibition, to this natural evolutional growth dynamic of human consciousness.  We've learned to make it a habit to resist our "evolutional currents" (again, by whatever term), opting to reinforce relatively status-quo change-resistant dynamics in our consciousness and its mindsets. 

Consequently, this evolutional propensity in us still sits functionally latent as untapped potential, "waiting" for our awakening to its realities and benefits.  This is not simply a play on words, it's a real difference, and one that will change your life, and especially your living of it.

In truth and in fact, we virtually can't not evolve our consciousness once we become aware of and accept how we've been inhibiting these innate evolutional propensities within us.  But, acceptance of this fact is only our first step, yet a significantly empowering one, for actualizing an evolvingadvantedge consciousness and mind. 

 

Getting Unstuck: Owning Our Ontological Innascence

The process of generally opening into an evolutional/creational consciousness and owning our ontological innascence entails learning the integral ways and means of "yielding to" a natural and organic inside-out developmental dynamic in ourselves.  This is not as easy as it might sound only because as modern humans 1) we're deeply habituated in resisting-change psychological and behavioral dynamics, 2) we've deeply repressed our functional access to those habituation dynamics, and 3) we, subsequently, haven't been able to even be aware of these first two points let alone do anything about it.  As such, we are stuck and, worse yet, stagnated in our same old same-old outside-in endeavors to produce and manage change-initiatives in ourselves, and in others.   Also, evolutional kinds of changes are not able to occur by way of the typical outside-in, overlay-change, efforts.  We can't just will evolutional change upon ourselves and others, at least not very sustainably, again, if at all.  It requires a more subtle and intricate kind of inner-shift dynamic, something of a "release-rise-and-ride" process, an "unweighting" of mentality-as-usual dynamics, a going inside-out more than a "make it happen" one (outside-in).

A Higher/Deeper Stratum of Competency

On the practical side, learning this evolvingadvantedge state-capability literally empowers and enacts our leading edge capacity for regenerative optimal functioning and performance.  It opens us into a higher/deeper stratum of functioning than what might even be conventionally thought of as "advanced self development technology". It is a seminal, evolved stratum mental state of developmental capability that we can access at any moment.  It is a state that is both a process and product of itself.  You might say it's evolutionally evolutional.  It enacts our capacity to generate seminal awarenesses in realtime, through a ontological nascence-presencing in and of awareness, functioning from this capacity as an evolutional-being, to intentionally function in and from this ontological-microgenic creational state-of-consciousness (not simply a creative state of mind).  It is a state I call "innascence"--the new innocence, of being in and functioning from our essence, an adult innocence, being in nascence, as a consciousness-sensing in the present.  This state is free of artifice, deceit, judgment, guile, aggression, and such.  It is a state characteristic of presence, openness, authenticity, clarity, emotionally clean, consciously intimate, dynamic, fresh, seminal, inspiring, wise, insightful, lucid, intuitive, and the like.  It's a human capacity that can be developed into a capability for daily "use".

Beyond Latent Potential

On a relevant note, to sustain any advantage—competitive or otherwise—including emerging a higher/deeper wellbeing, we must eventually learn to make a major shift in our perspective regarding the dynamics of confusion, conflict, chaos, and even "the competition".  We can do so by discovering our innate evolutional-consciousness, by whatever name.  The sooner we do so, the easier it will be to find, and play from, our "evolutional sweet spot" in the game of constant-change business.

Becoming more of an evolutional-being and (e)merging the dynamics of an evolutional-business in your company is an endeavor for us high-growth and developmentally-oriented individuals who want to not only "step up our game" in our developmental capabilities, but for those of us who want to open into, flow with, ride our leading edge, ride and function from the "sweet spot" of our ever-evolving evolutional-consciousness, in the pro-generative dynamic of evolutional-being--in/as our innascence.  This is a supra-dynamic flow-state of sorts, of "riding" and functioning in our emerging edge of previously latent capabilities, further manifesting and actualizing our innate, under-developed, capacities of consciousness, to manifest higher strata of advantage, wellbeing, including an exhilarated and rejuvenated life.

Playing In Paradox

You might be wondering, why would we inhibit the evolution of our consciousness?  How can we even do that?!  Also, by the way, what stops us from more easily transforming, making improvements, or any kind of beneficial change in ourselves, transformational or otherwise?  

The answer is not so obvious for us, hence one reason why we stay relatively stuck, stagnant, and sterile, especially as consciousness-evolving beings.  It seems that we've unwittingly habituated various personal and interpersonal dynamics that inhibit, for an "evolutional-while", this supra-macro level dynamic of consciousness evolution.  And since this evolutional dynamic is so subtle in its existence and so slow in its movement, evolutionally speaking, it's easy to not notice how we're inhibiting its influence on our consciousness and mental functioning, especially in light of the more immediate attentions of our free will on a daily basis.  And we've done this inhibiting for seemingly good reasons: generally, to increase our sense of safety and security in the world, simply put.  But, in that regard, as a side note, you'd think most of us would have noticed, as the mature adults many of us are, that there is no real continuous state of safety and security in the course of life's unfolding, nor in business.  As such, the typical command-and-control mindset is of limited value to our advancement.  It did, however, work wonderfully in the assembly-line paradigm of operating in decades past.    

Integral Dancing with Chaos and Control

Wanting a sense of command-and-control safety and security, some typical experiences that we like to avoid are those of confusion, conflict, and, especially, chaos.  Consider that being in confusion or conflict within ourselves or interpersonally is not the real problem regarding our progress as a person, business, or even as humanity.  Nor is chaos.  It's our state of consciousness and its contents—mindsets of outmoded rigidity, with its assumptions, understandings, beliefs, feelings, theories, attitudes, mental constructs in general—that we bring to our confusion, conflict, and chaos, both within ourselves and interpersonally, that is the dynamic that grinds optimal progress in business and life to a functional crawl, if not a virtual evolutional halt.  A crawl that we've come to unwittingly accept as sufficient and normal progress in business.  Using either chaos or control alone will not advance us nearly as masterfully as letting them "dance" or "percolate" together.  This includes letting conflict cut in as needed, letting the dance be open and as agile as possible at any moment in time.  When held integrally, we can see it's an dance of complex dynamics and meta-dynamics.  And that, as with learning any new dance that's challenging to us, sometimes we'll just need to sit out a bit, grab a refreshment and ponder our moves.  And remember all is good.  And then re-engage.

The Art of Sub-functionality

Unfortunately, we've relegated our resistance-to-change to an art form as we've continued to blame everything around us, instead of looking at ourselves and into our own resistance and sub-functionality.  We tend to make change a painful experience.  As humans we psychologically cling, white-knuckled, to familiar ways even if they minimally serve our efficacy and wellbeing.  Consider our process of how we deal with (or avoid) conflict, both in ourselves and with others.  Metaphorically, our approach to it is analogous to "kicking an injured horse", over and over again wanting it to "get up", simply because it's what we "know how to do" regarding conflict.  Or, at least, we feel we're doing something, and do so because we know "we're so good at it", even making an art form of it.  But then, we also aren't very good at being able to determine when that horse (i.e., dysfunction) is no longer responding to us.  Doing something we know how and are "good" at, often regardless of results, are mindless "pet activities" for many of us.  And it all seems safer than looking for any new and untried ways and means that might bring up further confusion, conflict or chaos.  

Remember, avoiding interpersonal conflict, or worse yet, trying to "get even" with others once conflict is encountered sub-functionally, or worse yet, dys-functionally (usually more the case), requires tremendous amounts of time and energy, even though we've gotten artfully good at suppressing the obviousness of this (and of socializing that suppressing so we don't have to notice we're doing it), typically in the form of diminished efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, and wellbeing…yielding potential progress to a functional crawl.  But, we ARE GOOD at it.

Mastering Perspective

Consider this a moment, regarding consciousness, that it's not merely what you focus ON that produces the advantage you're wanting in your efficacy, but where you focus FROM.  Also, consider that being optimally effective at co-operating (i.e., being co-operational, not just "agreeable") with others requires engaging healthy conflict openly IF and WHEN highly effective functioning and productivity IS our intention; and that is our intention, isn't it?  This doesn't mean bar room-type brawls, mayhem, or anarchy. Not even close.  Truth is, we can learn to befriend the dynamics of confusion, conflict, and chaos—heartfully as well as artfully, all integrally with control dynamics—to presence ourselves to it and in it in a way that not only precludes the occurrence of "interpersonal damage" from it (and all the time-wasting and productivity-wasting permutations for revenge—getting even—that come from it), but generates incredible breakthroughs and breakouts in creativity and innovation of insight, both intrapersonally and interpersonally.  But it's a matter of vertical perspective, and not just different perspective.  And that's a virtually unknown truth that's bankable.  

Re-assessing Approaches to Change

Perhaps you and your company have gone through many kinds and phases of organizational development...looking to find that place of people-functioning and culture that affords you the best competitive advantage.  Not only in your market niche, but in the arena of business in general, and perhaps even for yourself as a person.  Perhaps each past change initiative seemed to create change to some extent, just not necessarily beneficial over time, with hindsight.  And if the change-initiative happened to be a positive experience overall, then perhaps it invariably reached a plateau, then eventually reached some form of "cultural stagflation".  That's a typical affect of outside-in change-initiatives.

In each case, in hindsight, you might realize that those change-initiatives were merely a static "overlay" onto your dynamic organization by an "expert's assessment" of the particular changes your company seemingly needed.  Then it seemed just a matter of moving forward by the "shaping" of all concerned into the prescribed molds, patterns and processes of the prescribed changes.  More command and control mentality at its best.  Another term for this approach is "outside-in" change, the same meaning, functionally, as "overlay" change…all typical of command-and-control-paradigm "development", assembly-line-productivity thinking.  

Misplaced Good Intentions

Of course, an intended desire with this outside-in overlay approach is to squelch any confusion, conflict, and especially chaos (all conventionally perceived as "destructive" to optimal business functioning) in any organizational change program.  Ironically, this kind of tight, though well-intended, over-control inhibits the propensity for a more natural/organic confusion, conflict, and chaos from being able to (e)merge and play out naturally into a new, higher and more evolved, stratum of organizing and organization.  By nature, we are self-organizing beings when we openly and authentically engage confusion, conflict or chaos.  But our psychologically white-knuckled predispositions never allow us sufficient time to discover and develop this capacity for ourselves.

And consider this. As an evolutional-being functioning in/as your innascence, the states of confusion, conflict, and chaos become less your enemy and more your ally...they become necessary allies and partners in your cutting edge growth and progress.  One day, in hindsight, you will discover that they are integral process-companions that you are open to and work with every day...in how to find and flow in the sweet-spot of the ever-emergent regenerative state of evolutional-being that you can become.  That is, once you learn to stop inhibiting its natural/organic (e)merging of your capacities, to emerge as integral capabilities.  

Opening to Inside-Out Evolutional/Creational Change 

Being a more innate dynamic for change, a natural/organic chaos-to-order cycle precipitated by evolutional currents is more able to produce a higher level, a more evolved stratum, of organizing and functioning in you, both in your company, and as your company.  On the other hand, with the usual outside-in approach, the changes intended are NOT usually a natural/organic development or evolution of your culture's consciousness and business activities.  With outside-in driven change, it's not the kind of change that people easily accept and actualize as when it's THEIR OWN inside-out developmental changes that they're generating and developing.  It's not merely some well-meaning "experts" interpretation of "which changes the company needs".  With the inside-out approach, natural/organic multiple "strains" of organizational confusion, conflict, and chaos occur that are easier to (e)merge into a higher order of integrative-complexity of dynamic advantage.  This opens us into a higher, richer, more evolved, stratum of understanding of co-orienting, co-organizing and co-operating with each other.

Perhaps, looking back, after all the attempts at organizational improvement that you've encountered over the years, you've come to wonder if there's anything on the horizon in the domain of business development that would not only generate a more natural/organic developmental change...change that wouldn't stagnate, or worse, backslide, or worse still end up in some form of stabilized sub- or dys-function.  Perhaps you're now ready to explore your understanding of an inside-out evolutional-development dynamic in yourself and your leadership team, for having an evolutional-business with an evolvingadvantedge.

Release, Rise, and Ride

A person's development can be of the static-step-change kind or it can be of the dynamic-evolutional flow-change kind.  The former requires repeated stress-inducing attempts at "letting go" of the "old way", having to serially dis-attach from the old and re-attach to the new.  This is what most of us are familiar with when it comes to engaging outside-in change efforts.  The latter is a smoother, more seamless, natural feeling kind of change-progression because there is less attaching involved (therefore less need to "let go").  Think something like "a rolling stone gathers no  moss", but at a significantly higher/deeper stratum of enactment.  As such, change can happen more often and less effortlessly, and certainly with less stress or the disturbances that can accompany conventional static-step-change dynamics.  

For example, in the past, when a personal psychological crisis occurred producing abrupt tectonic-like shifts in our lives, it was often a sign of long-term inhibiting (e.g., psychological stagflation) of the natural/organic evolutional currents that were emerging to enable us to not only become more masterful in our ever-evolving environment (including within ourselves), but to enact the natural/organic expressions of our higher evolutional appetites trying to emerge, "wanting" fulfillment in/through/as us.  Instead of our resisting what's natural, we can "release-rise-and-ride" our way in innascence to the dynamic advantages and greater wellbeing of our authentic self, as we learn to emerge into a grander whole-self life and living.

How is evolutional consciousness wanting to emerge in your life?

(Note: There are several authors who are awakened to various aspects of the evolutional and presencing dynamics of human consciousness.  To get other takes on the theoretical aspects of the experiential reality of the stage-evolving nature of consciousness, read any of the dozens of other stage-development theorists, particularly Ken Wilber, since he's, arguably, the most theoretically comprehensive and inclusive.  Andrew Cohen's work is, in my opinion, more focused on engaging evolutional practices.  I'm for both, but particularly the latter.)

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