Season 1: 23 – The Leader’s Barriers to Change
10/10/24 • 38 min
Leaders challenge what is now: the status quo. And that always provokes resistance from others who prefer, for whatever reason, for things to stay just as they are. As a leader, it’s not about protecting yourself from the barbs. It’s about expressing your vision of change so it becomes meaningful to them too. So meaningful that it quells their resistance, and they willingly help you ignite it. First though you have to be aware of where the resistance is right now, and why. And that’s what Jonathan confronts in this episode as he answers the next Amplify question.
01:27 Amplify Card 21: What is preventing this change right now?
04:17 We have built institutions that go against the grain of who we are.
04:44 People don’t want to be measured; they want to be appreciated.
07:56 With our idea of progress, what is the vision the technology serves?
08:36 AI-generated email as a violation of trust.
13:18 Institutions as the embodiment of ideas and assumptions.
14:07 Politics as the idea of working together to find solutions rather than a war between competing interests.
16:41 Given the human complexity of even one individual, how can we as a community only have the choice of a “blue” team or a “red” team?
18:26 Our current system of politics is preventing change because it denies who we are.
19:50 In the real world, complex organizations get things done.
22:36 My vision seeks to defeat, to undo, those institutions that deny the pluralism within each one of us.
23:07 “Today we break with the past. Because we have to.”
23:51 When the assumptions are considered to be true: “this is who we are”
24:55 Crevices within a country create deep fissures that ultimately lead to anger and resentment.
27:22 Katherine’s story of a rollerblading injury analogous to the anger seeping into those living in a fractured world.
30:46 Being on the edge of the abyss with everything at stake.
31:35 Redefining the word “humanity”.
35:25 Final Answer
Leaders challenge what is now: the status quo. And that always provokes resistance from others who prefer, for whatever reason, for things to stay just as they are. As a leader, it’s not about protecting yourself from the barbs. It’s about expressing your vision of change so it becomes meaningful to them too. So meaningful that it quells their resistance, and they willingly help you ignite it. First though you have to be aware of where the resistance is right now, and why. And that’s what Jonathan confronts in this episode as he answers the next Amplify question.
01:27 Amplify Card 21: What is preventing this change right now?
04:17 We have built institutions that go against the grain of who we are.
04:44 People don’t want to be measured; they want to be appreciated.
07:56 With our idea of progress, what is the vision the technology serves?
08:36 AI-generated email as a violation of trust.
13:18 Institutions as the embodiment of ideas and assumptions.
14:07 Politics as the idea of working together to find solutions rather than a war between competing interests.
16:41 Given the human complexity of even one individual, how can we as a community only have the choice of a “blue” team or a “red” team?
18:26 Our current system of politics is preventing change because it denies who we are.
19:50 In the real world, complex organizations get things done.
22:36 My vision seeks to defeat, to undo, those institutions that deny the pluralism within each one of us.
23:07 “Today we break with the past. Because we have to.”
23:51 When the assumptions are considered to be true: “this is who we are”
24:55 Crevices within a country create deep fissures that ultimately lead to anger and resentment.
27:22 Katherine’s story of a rollerblading injury analogous to the anger seeping into those living in a fractured world.
30:46 Being on the edge of the abyss with everything at stake.
31:35 Redefining the word “humanity”.
35:25 Final Answer
Previous Episode
Season 1: 22 – The Leader’s Vision Uplifts Us
As a leader, realizing your vision of change takes more than just you. So it also has to matter to all those who can help you. In this episode, Jonathan looks at how his vision of a shared home enleavens to change lives and restore the true value of their work.
01:00 Reflections on the previous question of what difference it will make.
07:00 This is not about certainty. There is a necessary suppleness built into the vision.
08:55 Reference Card: Definition of “Enleaven”.
09:19 Amplify Question 20: How does this enleaven the world?
10:25 Postures of surrender: worship, defeat, Truth.
12:21 Standing up together, uplifted.
17:05 Rising up individually.
18:36 A film’s depiction of recognition and integration into the community.
21:25 It’s the ground that is the vision.
24:24 Preserving what we know to be true in the house we build together.
26:25 The invisible architecture of our souls.
28:25 How our day begins alone.
35:55 We are complex, containing many different things.
41:47 We awaken into our dignity and freedom.
43:56 Living in a country where workaholism is a badge of honour.
50:52 Through work we can become our true selves.
53:36 If we work in the ways that deny who we are, we are on the wrong path.
58:58 The metaphor of a tree having to be rooted in good healthy soil.
1:02:05 Redefining work as “contribution”.
1:04:58 Rescuing the word “competition”
1:09:40 Competition as the reason turns life into comparison.
1:15:02 Craft is the idea that anything we do, we can do with love, care and attention.
1:15:47 Final Answer
Next Episode
Season 1: 24 – The Leader’s Own Resistance
Even leaders who have a vision of meaningful change can engage in self-sabotaging thoughts and actions. In answering this next Amplify question, Jonathan looks within to reveal anything he might do to impede his own ability to ignite his meaningful change.
00:58 Amplify Question 22: What could impede your ability to ignite this change?
02:59 My vision feels right and true. I can put my arms around it. But then...
04:18 The questioning voice that says, “What do you see yourself as here?”
06:13 Action is so important, as the first step and every step.
06:29 “What is really magical is that these self-sabotaging endeavours have any power over the small, constructive step.”
09:42 There’s a necessary loss of balance. I’m feeling the freedom of letting go and being off balance for a while.
13:18 Being on your path reinvigorates and refuels you. You need the courage to take that first step.
15:53 I know that there is part of me that doesn’t allow myself joy in difficult times.
17:44 That joy is fuel means it’s necessary to rediscover the joy of work.
18:51 Final answer.
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