Top Highlights

• It is important for the core team to reflect the diversity of the key stakeholder groups, to bring the talents and competencies needed, and to make the project their number-one priority over the duration of the journey (e.g., four, six, or nine months).
• “The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener.”
• Theory U identifies four different ways (or sources from) that action and attention come into the world. They arise from a quality of awareness that is (1) habitual, (2) ego-systemic, (3) empathic-relational, or (4) generative eco-systemic.
• The moment we see the quality of attention shifting from ego to eco, from me to we, that is when the deeper conditions of the field open up, when the generative social field is being activated.
• The quality of results achieved by any system is a function of the quality of awareness that people in these systems operate from. In three words: Form follows consciousness.