Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences into Opportunities

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Presence

PRESENCE: applying all our mental, emotional, and spiritual resources to witnessing ourselves and the conflict of which we are now a part

Background: Becoming Awake

True self-interest teaches selflessness ... Heaven and earth endure because they are not simply selfish but exist in behalf of all creation. The wise leader, knowing this, keeps selfishness in check and, by doing so, becomes even more effective.

—Lao Tzu, sixth-century Chinese sage

If integral vision expresses the capacities of the right brain, and systems thinking expresses the capacities of the left brain, this question naturally arises: And where is the rest of us?

Particularly in times of conflict, our mind is only part of the picture. Are we contracted ...