Otto Scharmer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.
-- Otto Scharmer

#Leader #Today #Connections
How to use and leverage the presence and power of certain places for accessing the authentic dimension of self in individuals and in communities, is one of the most interesting research questions for the years to come.
-- Otto Scharmer

#Years #Self #Interesting
The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That's why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.
-- Otto Scharmer

#Data #Keys #Our Society
I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advancedÂ social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformationÂ (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework ofÂ consciousness-based action research
-- Otto Scharmer

#Thinking #Self #Views
What happens at the beginning of any creative process? Nothing! Creativity requires that we create space and wait for something to emerge.
-- Otto Scharmer

#Creativity #Space #Creative
Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.
-- Otto Scharmer

#Moving #Ego #Our Society
We live in an era of organized irresponsibility.
-- Otto Scharmer

#Eras #Organized #Irresponsibility

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
I must follow them. I am their leader.
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).
One People, one Reign, one Leader.
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
The leading rule for a man of every calling is diligence; never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? â€” why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections â€” an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places â€” which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

Otto Scharmer famous quotes

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