☄️🌍 The Evolutionary Leader – in LOCKSTEP with Humanity🌍☄️
What if Leadership is an expression of Human Consciousness as it Evolves?
Peter Merry is a futures thinker, systems innovator and author of Evolutionary Leadership. Human development he says is not random but rather an unfolding journey of consciousness and awareness through different stages.
From:
🔆 egocentric – focused primarily on self
🔆️ to ethnocentric – identifying with “our group” over “others”
🔆️ to world centric – recognising our shared humanity and interdependence
🔆 and perhaps ultimately toward a more cosmic sense of participation in life itself.
In a leadership and business context this points to our direction of travel.
Much of Western organisational culture was built during a phase of development that prioritised competition, extraction, control and short-term gain. Yet the challenges we now face are ecological, social, technological and psychological … which are systemic and interconnected.
These challenges invite us as leaders to act from higher conscious awareness.
Leadership is thus neither separate nor static … it is an expression of and evolving in lockstep with human development itself.
And that perhaps is the opportunity now before us: to evolve our organisations from purely self-interested systems into living systems that recognise relationship, responsibility, meaning and the wider web of life.
This shift often begins with a deeper personal understanding of leadership that is then reflected in the organisation.
A world centric approach to leadership invites each of us into our own developmental journey:
🌄 to identify beyond ego,
🌄 to cultivate greater awareness, empathy and perspective,
🌄 and to lead beyond mere ambition, from purpose, contribution and interconnectedness.
For businesses, the opportunity is equally significant.
Organisations that embrace a more world centric orientation are better equipped to navigate, survive and even thrive through complexity by building deep trust; fostering innovation; and creating long-term value – not only for shareholders, but for employees, communities, society and the planet itself.
As leaders, we are not separate from this evolutionary process.
We are participants within it … and … STEWARDS of what comes next.