Learning Stories
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Mario deSantis

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I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960

The whole judicial system is at issue, it's worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown Prosecutor, 1991

The system is not more worth than one person's rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002


Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign

 


In this book Joe Jaworski describes his life's journey to the meaning of leadership and eventually he finds it in the greater meaning of life when synchronicity takes hold of the unfolding of his life.

For Jaworski, Synchronicity is the natural process of life of serving one another for a higher purpose, and this is what leadership is, the natural happening of unrelated events which bring little miracles, one at a time, to our lives.

I found this book touching and especially relevant today when we are surrendering to a decadent leadership. What I found most interesting is Jaworski's reference to our world, a world not composed of things but composed of relatedness.

Synchronicity is Maturana's Languaging(1), Senge's Learning Organization(2), Forrester's System Dynamics(3), Douglas McGregor's Y-Theory(4), Greenleaf's Servant Leadership(5), Bohm's Dialogue(6)...

This book is a must read for all of us.

Endnotes

1. The biological origin of cognition and implications for Education, by Mario deSantis, September 24, 1998

2. NEED OF TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGES IN SASKATCHEWAN: The Learning Organization, and Knowledge Economy, by Mario deSantis, September 20, 1998

3. MIT System Dynamics Group, The System Dynamics Group was founded in the early 1960s by Professor Jay W. Forrester at MIT

4. The Genius of Douglas McGregor, by Mario deSantis, December 31, 2000

5. On Becoming a Servant Leader, Robert K. Greenleaf, edited by Don M. Frick and Larry C. Spears

6. Bohm Dialogue http://www.muc.de/~heuvel/dialogue/ 

Review of book by Michael Pellecchia  http://moneyblows.com/synch.html

Fast Company magazine writer Alan Webber's article that deals with Jaworski and his book, this is an excellent article http://www.fastcompany.com/online/03/jaworski.html  

Another smaller review of Jaworski's book by Christine Word http://www.perceptionsonline.com/reading.html