The $10,000 conversation behind Theory U - Joseph Jaworski (Part 2)
From Liberation Of Facilitation · 00:40:20
Show by Zeeger Scholten
At a meeting of the top 250 leaders of a newly merged company, someone asked the chairman how they were going to become entrepreneurial. He said he hadn’t got a clue. Joseph Jaworski, sitting in the back row, almost shouted: I know.That moment turned into a million-dollar assignment, a team with a young Otto Scharmer, and a phone call to an economist who wasn’t seeing anyone. Brian Arthur agreed to two hours. For $10,000.So I asked Joseph to make it practical: what did they actually find? His answer comes in four steps, and the first one is the same word three times.We talk about the six hours at Xerox PARC that grew into what many facilitators now know as Theory U, what Joseph means by “source”, why he sees a crisis of leadership at every level today, and why you can be very courageous and full of fear at the same time.Near the end, at the age of 91, he talks about what he believes comes after this life, and how he looks back on five careers.A conversation about going to the deeper place of knowing, and having the nerve to act on what you find there.
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