Scene 2 From Process Blindness to Process Sight

39 Territorial Tops: Stuck on Differentiation

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Put us together in a Top Space— a space of complexity and accountability; a space in which together we have designated responsibility for the system or subsystem— the organization, the family, the classroom, the plant, the team; a space in which there are many complex, difficult, and changing issues for us to deal with.

We differentiate in order to cope with that responsibility and complexity: “You handle this, I’ll handle that, she’ll handle those, and he’ll handle the other.”

Differentiation is imperative for us; without ...

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