DIRECTION • INFLECTION • FUEL
We are alive at an incredible moment in human history. Despite our innate human wiring toward deficit thinking and an attraction to the dramatic, we’re also drawn to the good, the true, the better, and the possible. We are increasingly coming to value our diversity. The body of knowledge within the human and social sciences is more energizing today than ever before — systems science, positive psychology, appreciative inquiry, positive organizational development, and the neuroscience behind the conditions of true flourishing — alone and together, they provide lessons to us in business and civil society that we are compelled to embrace. One of the 20th century’s most noted management thinkers, Peter Drucker, said “the task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths … making a system’s weaknesses irrelevant.”
