#🌱 #🟠 # Community of truth is an example of quantam view ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>Nov 05, 2022</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Jan 02, 2023</small> 🏷️ [[Leadership MOC]] As I read Wheatley's _Leadership and the New Science_ (2006) I am reminded of Palmer's (2017) community of truth. Both recognize that the power of analysis and binary logic granted to us by Newtonian science ". . . has also given us a fragmented sense of reality that destroys the wholeness and wonder of life" (Palmer, 2017, p. 64). Both argue that we need to "stop drawing line of opposition" (Wheatley, 2006, p.46) and embrace the both-and to "think the world together" (Palmer, 2017, p. 65). Palmer (2017) advocates for the model of a community of truth, which recognizes that "reality is a web of communal relationships, and we can know reality only by being in community with it" (p. 97) and where truth is the process of discovery and dialogue, not the outcome. Wheatley (2006) suggests that this process should focus less on planning and analysis and more on creating conditions for people to set clear intent, agree on how to work together, and practice becoming better observers, learners and colleagues. But what does that actually look like inside of organizations? I am especially interested because I work in healthcare, an industry steeped in Newtonian thinking, and while I recognize myself as a leader I do not have a formal leadership role. It is hard to imagine my organization embracing a quantam view, and at the very best it would be a long, slow journey. What actions can I take in my position to start steering us in this direction? ## Sources [[The Courage to Teach - Palmer 2017]] [[Leadership and the New Science - Wheatley 2006]]