CHAPTER 51

Awake at the Wheel

Moving Beyond Change Management to Conscious Leadership

Linda Ackerman Anderson and Dean Anderson

IMAGINE DRIVING the Los Angeles freeways at rush hour with blinders on, or shutting your eyes to the traffic altogether, determined to plow through to your destination. You couldn’t possibly expect to get there safely, and would likely create havoc along the way. Not being able to see all of the signals and forces at play in your chaotic environment would make the journey impossible. How would you navigate? Maybe, if you were on a straight highway with no cars or obstacles, you might drive some distance with only minor mishaps. But driving freeways is a constantly changing experience—fast-paced, unpredictable and uncontrollable, ...

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