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while watching the movie, "The Neverending Story" with 12.See Amazon.ca for details, ibid.
my youngest daughter, Julianna. The theme and presence 13.Any Fleming, The Key to Adaptable Companies Is
of The Nothing was ever present. Website: https://www. Relentlessly Developing People, Harvard Business Review,
youtube.com/watch?v=_-5QTdC7hOo for part of the movie. October 12, 2016. Website: https://hbr.org/2016/10/the-
2.Sherisse Pham, Samsung Chief Gets 5-year Prison Term key-to-adaptable-companies-is-relentlessly-developing-peo-
for Corruption, CNN, August 25, 2017. Website: http:// ple.
money.cnn.com/2017/08/25/technology/samsung-verdict- 14.Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Andy Fleming, Matthew
jay-y-lee/index.html. Miller, and Inna Markus, The Deliberately Developmental
3.Clintons deplorables pull together in Hurricane Harvey Organization, Extended Whitepaper, Way to Grow INC.,
aftermath, Website: http://nationalpost.com/opinion/ March 2014, p. 14. Website: http://www.vizenllc.com/wp-
christie-blatchford-clintons-deplorables-pull-together-in- content/uploads/2015/07/TheDeliberatelyDevelopmenta-
hurricane-harvey-aftermath. lOrganization.pdf. To learn more, please go to www.wayto-
4.Sren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), philosopher and scholar. growinc.com.
5.ROIR: Return-on-Integrity/Investment-in-Relationships. 15.Jean-Paul Sartres full quote is: Lenfer cest les autres!
6.I do not mean to be absolute here: there are some very OR : Hell is others [my translation].
good organizations, of course. Yet, the tremendous inter- 16.Robert Frost, Mending Walls. Website: https://www.
est in the human relations movement in the first half of poetryfoundation.org/poems/44266/mending-wall.
the 20th century and the enormous attention paid to the 17.Ken Wilber. Trump and a Post-Trump World. Boulder:
knowledge and practice of emotional intelligence in busi- Shambhala, 2017, 149 pages.
ness affairs over the past 30 years shows that there are 18.Social media has let loose all kinds of dark instincts
significant shifts going on now to include heart in the daily that were lurking. When you thought it was just your own
affairs of business. Having said that, business will still de- dark thoughts, and there was nobody who shared them,
mand an instrumentalist focus to any heart practices: that maybe you wouldnt have been so loud about them. But
is, can heart make us money? A new book from some noted when you find there are a whole bunch of people who
Harvard University developmental psychologists shows that agree, it does give you volume, quoting Ms. Tina Brown,
some companies take the ethic of human dignity as Job #1. the former editor of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair and
Read Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey. An Everyone Cul- founder of The Daily Beast - Elizabeth Renzetti, The Globe
ture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization. and Mail, Saturday, August 9, 2017, p. A2.
Cambridge, Mass: A Harvard Business Review Press, 2016, 19.Ken Wilber, op. cit., p. 25.
336 pages. 20.Ken Wilber, ibid., p. 37.
7.C.S. Lewis. An Experiment in Criticism, quoted in Charles 21.Website: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/po-
Chu, Passing Over: How Reading Lets Us Live a Thousand ems/47311/the-waste-land-56d227a99ddeb.
Lives, Better Humans. Website: https://betterhumans. 22.Ken Wilber, op. cit., p. 7.
coach.me/passing-over-how-reading-lets-us-live-a-thou- 23.For those interested in reading about Ken Wilbers
sand-lives-b51225dbff55. notion of the Integral approach, see Sue L.T. McGregor PhD
8.Ibid (above). Italics in original. Professor, Docent in Home Economics, University of Hel-
9.Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey, Matthew L Miller (Con- sinki; Doctoral Program Coordinator, Faculty of Education,
tributor), Andy Fleming (Contributor) and Deborah Helsing Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax NS B3M 2J6 Canada
(Contributor). An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately and her article, The Wilberian Integral Approach, Human
Developmental Organization. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Sciences Working Papers Archive: A Project of the Kappa
Business Press, 2016, 336 pages. Omicron Nu Leadership Academy. Website: https://www.
10.Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, An Everyone Culture: Be- kon.org/hswp/archive/mcgregor_2.htm.
coming a Deliberately Developmental Organization, Stan- 24.See The Message Bible, website: https://www.bible-
ford SOCIAL INNOVATION Review, 6 pages. Website: https:// gateway.com/passage/?search=ps+46%3A10&version=MSG.
ssir.org/articles/entry/an_everyone_culture_becoming_a_ The usual translation for Ps. 46:10 is: Be still and know that
deliberately_developmental_organization. I am God.
11.See Amazon.ca for details: https://www.amazon.ca/ 25.Ken Wilber, op. cit., p. 123.
Everyone-Culture-Deliberately-Developmental-Organiza-
tion/dp/1625278624/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=150540321
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that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony Anonymous program is that the alcoholic first acknowl-
rubbish? edges a higher power. In a narcissistic age, we are all
alcoholics and addicted to our own truth. Can we
Such Trump-like energy and elasticity with truth are ever acknowledge this reality across the board?
very destructive to our culture, our spirituality, our
hearts and values, and anything pertaining to the My own remedy for the spiritual chaos that is amongst
dimension of living a life worth going and growing us is to make ourselves available to go on retreat, to
to. We now see only too well the resurgence of the pull back, to take time to waste time, as I call it. We
Primitive Person in people across the globe. People need, both individually and as leaders, to step out of
are now on edge as never before. Since spirituality is the traffic, a translation of Psalm 46:10 that I dearly
essentially a perspective, Trumps perspective we know love.24 We must make a relationship to those parts
now is very destructive. According to Wilber a level of of ourselves which we dont value, are afraid of, but
consciousness over the past centuries that brought us which create havoc as a result when projected on to
a more inclusive vision has now morphed into a ram- others. What I am suggesting is that today we need to
pant and runaway relativism; nihilism becomes the embrace our poverty or dependence so that we can
air we breathe and all truth becomes contextualized, begin to reclaim our wholeness because right now in
nay, even the critical discernment principle in decision- North America and globally we are flatlined, that is,
making. People wonder: Who do we trust? Where is we have made everything equal. The end result is a
our standpoint? Is there a fixed point of reference? Is huge insanity, a Madness that has no perspective. No
all truth simply socially constructed with no privileged wonder we are lost. Its critical that we as a society, as
perspectives? Do cultural fashions now reign supreme? a world, realize that developmental levels are essen-
Has narcissism captured the day? It seems so when tial to move with and beyond, not to stay stuck. The
universally valid perspectives are not accepted as le- leading-edge cannot lead if it despises those whom
gitimate or tolerable, often even downright and force- it is supposed to lead and sees them as the deplora-
fully rejected. There seems no such thing as a universal bles or when facts tend to be alternative at best. St
moral framework. Wilber calls such a reality aperspec- Paul wrote: We are really not fighting flesh and blood
tival madness.22 I have always called it The Great but rather principalities and powers (Eph. 6:12). The
Insanity; it is now upon us. We have regressed mor- silliness of a no-map sense of leadership is precisely
ally and truthfully to an earlier, more primeval level of that silliness25 because it means that no truth
consciousness where it is everyone out for themselves. is possible or available. Somehow we need to find a
Wilbers contribution on the evolution and spiral stages listening heart once again (1 Kings 3:9). Its important
of consciousness now becomes an incredible gift for us to first hug people then trees! Perhaps in this way we
all to ponder especially at this time in our history.23 can tilt the needle a little. The work by the Harvard de-
velopmental psychologists is spot on: in the workplace,
Because our collective narcissistic truth is now indi- we do need an everyone culture; hiring stars will
vidually what each person claims it to be, individualism only make problems worse. There is a dream dreaming
has gone mad. Any in-depth spiritual truth or map for us, say the Kalahari Bush people, so the dynamic for
living well has gone underground or unconscious; we wholeness and unity and peace already resides within
tend to lack any solid leadership today, or a spiritually every person in the world. Let us begin to acknowl-
healthy perspective which could allow us to see our- edge and live it.
selves as we truly are, to see others as they truly are, ................
but most especially, to be able to see beyond ourselves About the author:
and value the common good by treasuring a shared For presentations and executive retreats, Dr. Rock can
higher value or values that can hold us all together. We be reached at worthplace@gmail.com or 1 613 898
truly are living through a time of spiritual crises. Key 7733.
values from the worlds great religions dont seem to
matter. We need a revolution of the imagination, of the References
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the rest is shadow! I think many of us are shocked to nies profiled are in the ROI billions and are very suc-
realize that this Primitive inside each of us is often so cessful. Culture, therefore, is the strategy of a DDO.13
close to the surface of society. Trumps energy appeals Employee developmental principles do work. Organi-
to such a base level in people. Someone recently said zational design becomes a process design because
that Americans are now experiencing their own coun- the quest for business excellence and the search for
try the way others around the world have seen the personal realization need not be in tension.14 De-
U.S. for years. How many of us often wore a Canadian veloping everyone must become the new normal for
flag on our clothes and suitcases when we travelled organizational design. Human flourishing must become
abroad! the main organizational design strategy and goal.
But there are still good people out there who coura- So, here we have these two very different designs and
geously move forward to honour and build the worth- maps: (1) one whose vision is that of human flour-
place.9 However, besides peoples hesitancy often to ishing, (2) the other whose vision creates walls and
build and grow a worthplace, I think its fair to say that protectionism. The consequences are predictable: (1)
we also have an additional major negative factor to creating a future worth going to OR walling oneself
deal with that is part of this darkness: the post-truth off from people where the other is, or in the words of
world that is all around us; it is global. Let me explain. French philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre, the other being
The question the Harvard authors ask themselves is lenfer or hell.15 The late poet, Robert Frost, in his
this: What is the alternative [to not developing every- poem, Mending Wall, wrote:
one]? Imagine so valuing the importance of develop- Something there is that doesnt love a wall,
Why do they make good neighbours? Isnt it
ing peoples capabilities that you design a culture that
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
itself immersively sweeps every member of the organi-
Before I built a wall Id ask to know
zation into an ongoing developmental journey in the
What I was walling in or walling out 16
course of working every day. Imagine recapturing
the full-time energies of your employees now joined to
Today we have very strong but different and dynamic
the mission of the enterprise. 10
options at work in society: a binary either-or option
about how to live and, for some, a both-and vision.
The Harvard authors rightly claim the following:
DDO organizations have chosen a worthplace culture:
In most organizations nearly everyone is doing a sec-
a both-and vision.
ond job no one is paying them fornamely, cover-
ing their weaknesses, trying to look their best, and
managing other peoples impressions of them. There One author who can
may be no greater waste of a companys resources. help us tremendously
The ultimate cost: neither the organization nor its
in seeing more clearly
people are able to realize their full potential. What
what this binary
if a company did everything in its power to create a
post-truth vision
culture in which everyonenot just select high po-
tentialscould overcome their own internal barriers
means is philosopher
to change and use errors and vulnerabilities as prime Ken Wilber in his new book: Trump and a Post-Trump
opportunities for personal and company growth? 11 World.17 Social media has made Trumps either-or
binary option spread like wildfire.18 I have always
What a Deliberately Developmental Organization (or argued for a both-and vision. One major way the
DDO) creates in its design is an urgency for everyone either-or option has increased has been through what
to grow as a person. This means going beyond entrust- is now known as alternative facts. In short, reality
ing people development to high-potential programs, becomes what you want it to be; facts are flexible.
executive coaching, or once-a-year off-sites. It means According to Wilbur, President Trump doesnt even try
fashioning an organizational culture in which support to hide this; he lies factually with gleeful abandon.19
of peoples development is woven into the daily fabric With no truth, no lies! Instead, we now have an egali-
of working life and the companys regular operations, tarian flatland.20 T.S. Eliots poem The Waste Land
daily routines, and conversations.12 The DDO compa- comes to mind.21 The poet asks, What are the roots
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did tip the election in favour of Trump. The deplora- ers and doting on that child. We all know what that will
bles expression, plus Trumps sleaziness, also opened bring in terms of family dynamics. An Everyone Culture
up the now-real possibility for what I call The Great is a deliberately developmental organization or DDO. Its
Insanity to take over officially. I have been arguing it organizational design is to develop everyone on an daily
seems forever for each of us to treat one another basis. Whats interesting is that the four companies pro-
with dignity. Dignity is the baseline for being human. filed in the book are also very successful financially.
Our most fundamental human responsibility is found
in attending to and minding spirit, in other words, C.S. Lewis, in commenting on reading great literature,
attending to human dignity for self and for others. in his book An Experiment in Criticism, writes that read-
Simple but yet the most challenging of all endeavours. ing allows us to enter another persons world: My own
This is true for every person and for every business. eyes are not enough for me. in reading great litera-
ture I become a thousand men and yet remain myself.
When I would ask my MBA students over the years, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than
What is the purpose of business? they would always when I do.7 Dr. Maryanne Wolf, a cognitive neurosci-
say, To make money! I then replied, Wrong an- entist, in her book Proust and the Squid, writes:
swer! When the stunned looks on their faces became While reading, we can leave our own consciousness,
more calm, I then said: The fundamental purpose of and pass over into the consciousness of another
business is in attending to and minding spirit, that is, person, another age, another culture. Passing over,
attending to the human dignity of every employee, to a term used by the theologian John Dunne, describes
be excellent in what theyre all about for the business the process through which reading enables us to try
(e.g., product, service, including the common good, on, identify with, and ultimately enter for a brief time
and the environment) and in so doing, to help make a the wholly different perspective of another persons
profit that benefits everyone. Today I would remind consciousness. When we pass over into how a knight
them of Kierkegaards words as a follow-up: There thinks, how a slave feels, how a heroine behaves,
are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isnt and how an evildoer can regret or deny wrongdo-
true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.4 ing, we never come back quite the same; sometimes
Business students have been fooled as to what the were inspired, sometimes saddened, but we are
purpose of business is; making a profit is only a by- always enriched. Through this exposure we learn
both the commonality and the uniqueness of our own
product.
thoughtsthat we are individuals, but not alone. 8
I would then assign them their first research essay:
Charles Chu, the author of the article from which these
how capitalism started over 200 years ago, its trajec-
quotes are taken, writes: Although the stacks of novels
tory since then, and its faithfulness to its original birth-
I read in my youth served no purpose (I simply could
right and intuition. If they did their homework well,
not stop reading them), they had a certain effect. I
they would discover that capitalism went off the rails
learned to see things not just as I saw them, but as
at the point when ROIR5 was seduced and made into
others saw them too. ... Unknowingly, I had learned to
ROI only. Head and heart got separated and today
empathize.
business is head only for the most part.6 Head-
only materialism won the day in many fields in the
Now you may be asking what all this has to do with the
20th century. But in a new Harvard book, An Everyone
title of this article? Like Chu, you and I too can learn
Culture, organizational design becomes a whole new
to see things as others see them. And what a lot of
way of being at work [and] suggests that the culture
others are seeing today is not very pleasant politi-
we create is our strategy; the key to success is devel-
cally, ethically, spiritually, organizationally, globally. It
oping everyone. Hiring only star performers is not
would seem that the President of the United States
only wrong since research shows they tend to flame
has opened up a very dark space that many possibly
out after two years but especially because such star
thought was gone forever. Not so. One of the wisest
hiring is a recipe for resentment no matter how much
things Dr. Carl Jung ever wrote is that inside each of us
money they generate in the short-term. It would be
lies what he called the Primitive Person. Such a per-
like singling out one child in the family over the oth-
son never goes away; in Jungs words, After two drinks
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ness all around us is a spiritual darkness that is global
in nature and which, for me, is a darkness of perspec-
tive or inner goodness that recognizes not only oneself
and others but allows and honours a higher vision of
LEADING IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD: purpose and meaning to life.
Time of the Great Insanity 1
In the past our personal myopia has often got the bet-
ter of us with the dark forces of war, consumerism,
bigotry, racism, power despotism, authoritarianism
and, yes, outright lying at the highest levels of gov-
Michael Rock, Ed.D., D.Th., Ph.D.
ernment and business. As Im writing this article, Lee
Jae-yong, the de facto chief of the sprawling Samsung
business empire, is guilty of bribery and other corrup-
tion charges.2 Such unethical behaviour is not new
but what seems new is that this kind of darkness is,
as many would say, all around us. And yet, in spite of
being convicted, according to David Kang, director of
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is people for the University of Southern Californias Korean Studies
whom the distinction Institute, before the verdict was announced, serving
between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experi- time in jail would be like a rite of passage for Jae-
ence) and yong, The question Kang wonders about: the length of
the distinction between true and false (i.e., the time Jae-yong will have to serve.
standards of thought) no longer exist.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), The Origins of To- The example of Lee Jae-yong is but one example of
talitarianism what is so spiritually dark and pernicious about the
times. Many are concerned that we live in the grips of a
me-generation a kind of selfishness that looks out for
Youve disgraced your masters house! oneself and lets the rest of the world take care of itself
Youre fired and good riddance!
on its own. Hurricane Harvey, however, showed that it
Prophet Isaiah (8th BCE), Jewish scriptures 22:19
was the deplorables,3 as Hilary Clinton called those
who didnt have her money and finesse, who helped
Nuance is anathema to his thinking [Trump], neighbours cope with the flooding. Christie Blatchford,
which is why he can maintain such fidelity to his writing in the National Post, gives Clintons full quote:
ideas To just be grossly generalistic, you can put half of
in a-hundred-and-forty-character [Twitter] bursts. Trumps supporters into what I call the basket of de-
Jelani Cobb (1969- ), The New Yorker plorables. Right? Racist, sexist, homophobic, xenopho-
bic, Islamophobic, you name it. some of the deplora-
bles were irredeemable and not America. However,
Blatchford goes on to say, Some Trump supporters
While we are all responsible for our words and actions, are also smart, remarkably self-sufficient and quick to
there seems to be a very real presence of darkness in help their fellow man, which counts for something.
our world that has seeped into our global cultures and Blatchfords point is that even some Trump supporters
thinking. This doesnt mean that darkness will out, but do have a sense of empathy; not everyone on the other
we need huge amounts of self-and-other awareness side politically, is a deplorable.
as a countermeasure. Yet we are in a very dark place
and space right now in North America and in the world. Perhaps no two words did as much damage to Clinton
Some will say we have always had such dark spaces as the deplorables because while one may or may
before. What I think is different now is that the dark- not like Donald Trump some claim Clintons comment
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