Latest Blog Posts for Duart Maclean

• Acting Independently yet Interdependently within Networks
  on Apr 8, 2011 in Transformational Leadership
  The self-leader does not work in isolation.  He may be completely independent or have a few direct associates, yet he will tap into other networks as sources of both business and support.  He will also provide business and support for his n...
• Working from Vision, Purpose, Goals and Intentions
  on Apr 8, 2011 in Transformational Leadership
  Vision is not a product of rationality, logic or common sense.  It arises from a place within us that is deeper than the intellect.  The Hebrew prophet Isaiah wrote: ‘Without vision the people perish’.  A life without vis...
• Cultivating an 'Organic' Relationship with our Environment
  on Apr 8, 2011 in Transformational Leadership
  The term ‘environment’ includes but is not limited to the natural world upon which we ultimately depend for our survival.  Our environment includes our family, friends, colleagues, customers and competitors.  It includes...
• Relating to Breakdowns as Opportunities rather than Disasters
  on Apr 8, 2011 in Transformational Leadership
  Although yoga posits one supreme Iswara (God) as the source of Creation, Iswara is given three ‘faces’ known respectively as, Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the maintainer) and Shiva (the destroyer).  These three great deities are facets of t...
• Thinking Globally while Acting Locally
  on Apr 8, 2011 in Transformational Leadership
  Ignorance of the bigger picture is not a virtue for self-leaders.  Our projects may be local, but they are subject to the influence of global forces and events.  Technologies, stock markets, currency values, trade laws, environmental realit...
• Self-Generating Action from Within
  on Apr 8, 2011 in Transformational Leadership
  Action is unavoidable.  Ordinary action is largely deterministic and routine, making the bulk of our ‘doingness’.  However, there is another order of action that is motivated from within by an evolutionary impulse, which is produced nei...
• Responding rather than Reacting to the Unexpected
  on Apr 8, 2011 in Transformational Leadership
  Human beings are comfortable with the predictable and disturbed by the unexpected, because the mind itself operates very much like a sophisticated machine.   Machines function smoothly within certain predetermined lines of action and with a...
• Creating Participation
  on Apr 8, 2011 in Transformational Leadership
  As long as we feel disconnected from our Source, we will feel isolated and alone in the universe.  All apparent differences in the phenomenal world are finally resolved in the unified field of Being from which they arose in the first place. ...
• Adapting to Rapid Social, Economic and Technological Change
  on Apr 8, 2011 in Transformational Leadership
  In the twenty-first century we can expect more of the unexpected, not less.  The relatively clear lines of demarcation that traditionally separated different cultures, religions and world-views are blurring rapidly. Technological change is advan...
• Communicating for Action and Results
  on Apr 6, 2011 in Transformational Leadership
  Most of what is called ‘communication’ is little more than verbal and written descriptions of objects and events, story-telling and gossip, projecting an image of ourselves that we want to create, and camouflaging our actual feelings, intentions...

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