January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 52m
English
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Chapter 13 Integral Leadership Informed by Grace The Future of Leadership for a World at Stake
It is no secret that our world is facing both a perilous future and one rife with possibilities. Either way, it is an uncertain future. We must wisely lead our way forward, or face dire consequences.
Is the state of leadership in today’s world up for the challenges we collectively face? We think not. The current global context puts us in a development gap. We are too often canceling ourselves out. Leadership must evolve.
Geoffrey West recently wrote the book, Scale: Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies.1 West is a physicist who turned to biology to determine if there are any universal laws by which nature scales. What he found is truly amazing.
West discovered what he calls power laws. That means nature scales itself with such consistency that it can be mathematically described as a law of nature. This law of nature is sublinear scaling, meaning that, as nature scales, it requires less input to sustain its larger size.
For example, a whale eats more than a lion, but a lion eats more in proportion to its weight than a whale. The relationship between mass and energy intake is remarkably predictable across all mammals using a simple formula. So, nature scales sublinearly. On the other hand, human enterprises (e.g., economies, companies) scale supralinearly, requiring greater inputs with scale. This sets ...
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