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Different time
Different language
Different assumptions
Different culture
Exemplary persons
understand what is
appropriate, petty persons
understand what is of personal
advantage.
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The master said: Exemplary persons would feel shame
if their words were better than their deeds.
wuwei = non-intervention
ziran = according to nature (using qi)
wuxing = formless, invisible (war tactics!)
But always in conjunction with opposites!
Modern Theories
Self organization, chaos
Emergent strategies.
Mintzberg: we need
communityship rather than
leadership
Organizations do not consist of
individuals, but of
relationships.
Persons are create
relationships/situations and
relationships/situations create
persons!
Leadership is a relation, not an
action of an individual +
reactions of other individuals,
Dialectical Thinking
Or bi-polarity (exclusive) ?
Poetic Understanding
Dao De Jing, translation Ames & Hall, 2003
What enables the rivers and seas to be king of the valleys
Is that they are good at standing lower than them.
It is this that enables them to be king of the valleys.
This is the reason that the sages in wanting to stand above the common people
Must put themselves below them in what they have to say.
Dialogue/Discussion/Feedback
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Thank you
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