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I'm a huge proponent of ensuring Integrative Intelligence expands globally! Below, I share my experiences with you and contribute my thoughts on this very instrumental perspective shift.
I am a rock climber. There are different types of climbing. In adventure climbing, we look at a mountain and determine, "let's go there." What sets adventure climbing apart from other forms of climbing? There is not yet an established route. You follow a calling.
In adventure climbing, there is something called a "false summit." A false summit happens when it looks as if the peak of a climb is right in front of you. You climb to the top. Then, upon arrival, you realize the true summit is still in the distance. You couldn't see it from the ground.
I realized, we, all of humanity, are at a false summit together. We are not at the top of our potential.
Why not? Our technology is growing faster than our EQ. We can fly to the moon, land on Mars, and I can text someone in Japan from Tucson, AZ. We have self-driven vacuum cleaners and cars that park themselves.
So, why have we not reached our potential yet? We haven’t reached our human potential yet because of our previous linear focus. We haven’t yet viewed success integratively.
Let’s explore this further...
Since the Industrial Age and on, we have been operating off of primarily linear approaches to success.
Let’s say you and I are best friends. We are talking one afternoon, and I tell you that I have a dream. My dream is to make ONE million dollars over the next year.
You supportively say to me, “Great Laurel!” Then I set off to make my millions.
What if a year later I come back to you and say, “Hey guess what?! My company made the million-dollar mark last year! I did it!”
You say, “WOW, congrats! You succeeded” We celebrate. Life goes on.
BUT! What I didn’t share with you was that my employees were miserable, I had high turn- over, and my company approach was harming the environment.
If you found out the full picture, would you say I was truly successful? If you view success as a linear thinker, then yes, by all means, you could classify me as a success.
What if the conversation was integratively tuned in? What if I was integratively intelligent and operated as an integrated leader? What would that conversation look like?
It could go something like this: I come to you and say, “Guess what?! My company made the million-dollar mark last year.” You say, “WOW, congrats! What a success!”
If I’m a leader developed in my Integrative Intelligence®, here is where the conversation could pivot. My response may look more like this: “Well, thank you. I do appreciate the sentiment. However, we haven’t quite succeeded. My employees are miserable. We have atrocious turn-over costing us a lot of what we are making. We also created a back log of pollution which I’m not comfortable with. So, I would say, yes, we succeeded but only in one area. We have impact in 3 areas! Two of which are failing.”
Most leaders don’t talk like this... Especially not to their stakeholders.
Yet, their hearts are dying to do better and would really love to reach success in all areas! They just don’t believe it is possible, and so they quite naturally settle for the false summit.
The other day I attended a Conscious Capitalism meeting. Their credo is “Elevating Humanity Through Business”. At this meeting, we discussed the impact Covid has had on businesses.
Listening to the rich discussions and variety of experiences, it dawned on me. Covid has taught us how amazingly agile we really are!
Our full capacity to pivot has, for the first time in centuries, been completely uncloaked. Leaders who previously believed, “We can’t”, woke up to the reality that “We can”.
We can pivot. We did pivot. It wasn’t easy, but it was accomplished.
This leaves a door open. The door of “why not?” If we are capable of pivoting, why not pivot to include better corporate practices that include success in all areas? Well, because it can feel and seem impossible and daunting.
However, a false summit is a limit of perspective only.
If my message resonates with you, I can imagine you also see how acting in integrally intelligent ways will positively elevate humanity. I invite you to download the white paper on the powerful approaches and high-impact frameworks that Integrative Intelligence offers.
Learn the art and science behind this exciting approach:
I am a rock climber. There are different types of climbing. In adventure climbing, we look at a mountain and determine, "let's go there." What sets adventure climbing apart from other forms of climbing? There is not yet an established route. You follow a calling.
In adventure climbing, there is something called a "false summit." A false summit happens when it looks as if the peak of a climb is right in front of you. You climb to the top. Then, upon arrival, you realize the true summit is still in the distance. You couldn't see it from the ground.
I realized, we, all of humanity, are at a false summit together. We are not at the top of our potential.
Why not? Our technology is growing faster than our EQ. We can fly to the moon, land on Mars, and I can text someone in Japan from Tucson, AZ. We have self-driven vacuum cleaners and cars that park themselves.
So, why have we not reached our potential yet? We haven’t reached our human potential yet because of our previous linear focus. We haven’t yet viewed success integratively.
Let’s explore this further...
Since the Industrial Age and on, we have been operating off of primarily linear approaches to success.
Let’s say you and I are best friends. We are talking one afternoon, and I tell you that I have a dream. My dream is to make ONE million dollars over the next year.
You supportively say to me, “Great Laurel!” Then I set off to make my millions.
What if a year later I come back to you and say, “Hey guess what?! My company made the million-dollar mark last year! I did it!”
You say, “WOW, congrats! You succeeded” We celebrate. Life goes on.
BUT! What I didn’t share with you was that my employees were miserable, I had high turn- over, and my company approach was harming the environment.
If you found out the full picture, would you say I was truly successful? If you view success as a linear thinker, then yes, by all means, you could classify me as a success.
What if the conversation was integratively tuned in? What if I was integratively intelligent and operated as an integrated leader? What would that conversation look like?
It could go something like this: I come to you and say, “Guess what?! My company made the million-dollar mark last year.” You say, “WOW, congrats! What a success!”
If I’m a leader developed in my Integrative Intelligence®, here is where the conversation could pivot. My response may look more like this: “Well, thank you. I do appreciate the sentiment. However, we haven’t quite succeeded. My employees are miserable. We have atrocious turn-over costing us a lot of what we are making. We also created a back log of pollution which I’m not comfortable with. So, I would say, yes, we succeeded but only in one area. We have impact in 3 areas! Two of which are failing.”
Most leaders don’t talk like this... Especially not to their stakeholders.
Yet, their hearts are dying to do better and would really love to reach success in all areas! They just don’t believe it is possible, and so they quite naturally settle for the false summit.
The other day I attended a Conscious Capitalism meeting. Their credo is “Elevating Humanity Through Business”. At this meeting, we discussed the impact Covid has had on businesses.
Listening to the rich discussions and variety of experiences, it dawned on me. Covid has taught us how amazingly agile we really are!
Our full capacity to pivot has, for the first time in centuries, been completely uncloaked. Leaders who previously believed, “We can’t”, woke up to the reality that “We can”.
We can pivot. We did pivot. It wasn’t easy, but it was accomplished.
This leaves a door open. The door of “why not?” If we are capable of pivoting, why not pivot to include better corporate practices that include success in all areas? Well, because it can feel and seem impossible and daunting.
However, a false summit is a limit of perspective only.
If my message resonates with you, I can imagine you also see how acting in integrally intelligent ways will positively elevate humanity. I invite you to download the white paper on the powerful approaches and high-impact frameworks that Integrative Intelligence offers.
Learn the art and science behind this exciting approach:
Integrative Intelligence® in Coaching
We train you in the frameworks that elevate your coaching so that your clients reach their goals, develop their fullest capacities, engage gifts they didn't even know they had and walk away with a lifetime of benefit from hiring you as their coach of choice.
As a coach you learn:
1) The Eight Domains of Integration.
2) How to masterfully combine multiple intelligence centers.
3) The art of discerning timing and honoring client capacity.
4) Masterful coaching approaches and integrative skillsets.
5) How to distinguish what pacing will work best for different clients.
So that your clients can:
1) Access latent potentials hidden within them.
2) Engage virtues that are missing for them in life.
3) Step into their personal power.
4) Expand their relational agility.
5) Leave a coaching engagement grateful they found you.
We train you in the frameworks that elevate your coaching so that your clients reach their goals, develop their fullest capacities, engage gifts they didn't even know they had and walk away with a lifetime of benefit from hiring you as their coach of choice.
As a coach you learn:
1) The Eight Domains of Integration.
2) How to masterfully combine multiple intelligence centers.
3) The art of discerning timing and honoring client capacity.
4) Masterful coaching approaches and integrative skillsets.
5) How to distinguish what pacing will work best for different clients.
So that your clients can:
1) Access latent potentials hidden within them.
2) Engage virtues that are missing for them in life.
3) Step into their personal power.
4) Expand their relational agility.
5) Leave a coaching engagement grateful they found you.
If you are interested in coaching through these powerful principles I invite you to explore becoming a Certified Professional Integration Coach (CPIC).
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