CHAPTER 4
Consilience: Innovating from Differences
Avoid the tyranny of the “or”; embrace the genius of the “and.”
—JIM COLLINS and JERRY PORRASBuilt to Last
Consilience is a core dynamic and practice within We the Leader, as well as in life itself. The evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson highlights this concept in his book by the same name—Consilience—meaning the “jumping together” of seemingly opposite energies or ideas. This dynamic action of creative opposites is considered the evolutionary impulse of life. Think of procreation, where the integration of masculine and feminine energy creates human life. Alternatively, envision a battery’s energy, created by a simultaneous positive and negative charge. Without both forces, there is no ...
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