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The Infinite Leader
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The Infinite Leader

by Chris Lewis, Dr. Pippa Malmgren
October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
248 pages
5h 53m
English
Kogan Page
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CHAPTER FOUR

Introducing ‘zero’ models

How can we simplify the problems of leadership? Where has this been done before in our history and our culture? How do we divide up multiple areas to make sense of complex, intersecting issues? How do we use these to identify imbalance?

So, we’ve seen that imbalance has been a problem for centuries and latterly we’ve sought to achieve greater efficiency via the application of more and more scientific thinking.

But like all thinking, it has been done before and often better. Two inspiring examples of ‘balanced greatness’ can be seen in Descartes and da Vinci. Both these 16th-century thinkers helped ignite the Renaissance with the way they joined up duality.

One of da Vinci’s most famous works was the Vitruvian ...

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ISBN: 9781789666502