it Dakota at the park at the elm aroma
from the void and to the night and into
the world of light
the journey from takara the beginning of
time through tepid darkness and into
tell madam ER the world of light is at
the heart of great leadership in our
task as leaders with to reach into tech
hora and release that potential into the
world and create more light and we are
standing at a new threshold a 21st
century version of Tecate which is an
opportunity to help navigate from
darkness to light where people are
crying out for effective solutions in
the great leaders of the ancient
cultures of Mari and Polynesia where
wayfinders who went beyond the known and
on journeys of discovery to new horizons
and they navigated from a different
worldview in their experiences have
valuable insights for us as we navigate
an increasingly complex and changing
world
in today’s wave finders are the living
face of a philosophy of being that has
been transmitted from one generation to
the next through millennia without
magnetic compasses sextants
or maps these intrepid explorers
Traverse something like 25 million
square kilometers of ocean settling
different islands and island chains in
their double hulled sailing rocker those
sturdy vessels built to survive
ocean-going expeditions with the
inspiration for the America’s Cup racing
catamarans
and today’s modern GPS systems echo the
methods used by wayfinders to judge
position in relation to place markers
and their incredible feats have been
likened is akin to going to the moon
because they were journeying at a time
when most of Europe thought that the
world was flat and that if you just
careful to the edge of the world you
would drop off into space or you would
flip upside down and enter the inter
police I’d like to acknowledge my
co-authors John Punahou and hoturoa
Barclay Kuh together we form the
wayfinding leadership collaboration our
journey started when I was at Harvard
University and invited to write a book
on Maori leadership and that path took
me to hotel or thanks to John or to
lawyer infuse this work with the real
experiences of the wayfinders he
breathed life into it and he is the
direct descendent of hotel or the great
high priest who never gated the tiny nui
waka 2lt royal and I’d also like to
acknowledge the thousands of people who
have attended our workshops or listened
to our talks because you have really
helped this work come into being in a
powerful way the first step of
wayfinding leadership is what hauteur
describes is steeping unto your younger
terror space rangatira is a word that is
synonymous with chief leanness with
leader Lina’s and we mean look at that
word we see it comprises two parts run
or die of anger which means to wave in
terror group so a leadership our task is
to weave a group together now this isn’t
like some kind of master puppeteer who
holding all the strings and manipulating
people this is the act of weaving where
every person is a thread in the
community each person expressing
leadership at different times lending
their own specialness expertise and
effort as we weave as a movement through
time as part of something bigger than us
it also involves working with tension
and finding balance so we’re going to
have a video clip now where what is
going to describe the experience of a
young navigator who stepped into his
you
so our trainee navigator on Henry was
Wadi and this was it to be his big teeth
I was really cloudy 100% cloud cover for
three or four days and you couldn’t see
the horizon you couldn’t see the sunrise
all said he couldn’t see stars you
couldn’t see the moon the only way you
could keep the work on check was to see
how it was riding across the swells in
the direction that you needed it to go
it’s a very very difficult thing to do
what he was showing signs of anxiety
looked a little bit worried he kept
checking his books kept checking his
calculations and eventually he came up
to me and asked so what should I do and
I said to him just stop and just taken
everything that’s happening around him
and just spend that time to focus on all
the signs that were available and so he
did that he stopped he just listened to
everything with his body with his mind
with his heart and really take note of
everything that was around him and
during that time the sky opened up for a
fleeting moment he was a small gap in
the clouds and he was able to see the
crescent moon in its second quarter and
he knew that the line between the tips
of the quiz and moon gave us a
north-south direction from there he knew
that we were a little bit off course in
that he needed to make adjustments
recalibrate the direction of the worker
which he did and we sit sail
and after that experience he came and
set beside me and said that he now knew
that his ancestors would never ever let
him down and from that moment on I
called him the Navigator of our worker
the Navigator of home and he’d moved
into his own space his runner to the
space a space where he knew he would
never be lost the serenity the space is
a place of deep humility its leadership
with others and not above them it’s a
total commitment to your space your
environment your people which is what we
want for our worker crimp mo always said
that to be a master navigator you needed
to train people to be better than
yourself
success is succession and Mao said to be
so wayfinding leader stands with others
from a place of deep humility they help
others step into their own rangatira
space and they have a fierce commitment
to their people into their purpose this
view of leadership is markedly different
from the kinds of leadership we often
hear about especially in the corporate
world with some leaders cultivate their
positions like a lofty mast that they
alone can see the horizon and see things
that others can’t see that they have to
be that person around which everyone and
everything ought to cohere however
research shows that this kind of
leadership can seriously weaken an
organization and diminish relationships
and create dependency the problem with
this form of leadership is that the
power of one has the potential to
eclipse the power of the collective and
it means that people can’t express their
own rangatira space some people
slipstream and behind such leaders or to
think that to get ahead they have to
topple the leader in order to be able to
step into their own rangatira space a
word that is closely associated with the
rangatira is mana professor charles
royal describes mother is an energy a
consciousness in the world in a leader
who leads in a mother enhancing way
really seeks to awaken and release the
deeper potential in others they see the
whole person and all that they bring and
that to lead in a mother enhancing way
is to really pay attention to
relationships and that comes forward
through a process of reciprocity and
mutual recognition it points to the
collective effort in our way finding
leadership workshops we talk about two
forms of mana now in the Maori world
there are many forms of mana but for the
purposes of our exercise
we look at assumed malla now assumed
manga often occurs when we assume a
position of authority its associated
with words like gravitas charisma
Authority in my own experience when I’ve
picked up leadership roles it does feel
like some kind of manner got attached to
me took a while for me to realize
actually it wasn’t about me but it was
about the position I held it’s a very
inward focused type of thing or when
I’ve published an 8-year journal article
and sometimes it feels like the heavens
have opened up and some manner glitter
falls down and settles on my shoulders
and I Sparkle for a little while that’s
not the kind of manner that we’re
talking about in our workshops we ask
people to think about a great leader
someone of manner and they explore the
different qualities that come forward
you know these are some of the words
that people find and that discussion
about these great leaders it’s about
humbleness generosity strength and
wisdom it’s often very quiet and good
listening and what we see is not so much
what people accomplished in many cases
these great leaders have accomplished
great things rather what’s really
important is how they did it for what
purpose and in service of whom because
it’s more than simply accumulating
accomplishments as hottes said success
is succession the master navigator Papa
mopey I look used to say that success is
when you don’t have to intervene so when
he took these people on voyages his idea
of success on the voyage was when he
didn’t have to speak when he didn’t have
to intervene because he knew that if he
didn’t have to step in that he had
trained a crew that could survive and
thrive without him he understood that
it’s
not about being a know-it-all true power
comes from being an all know it the
other part of wayfinding leadership
alongside step into your longer tether
space is called the island to you the
navigation of oceanic navigation
involves reading different signs in our
environments such as the flight path of
homing boots the star path the
frequencies that ply the ocean cloud law
and these navigators see themselves in
the Walker as one and the idea is to
stay as still as possible while the
world flies past you in holding the
vision of their Island and calling it to
you it’s been described it’s like being
on a train yes sometimes when you’re on
a train it feels like you’re sitting
still in it’s the world flying past you
out and out the window it’s a similar
way of looking at things so by holding
that island clearly in their minds eye
and really staying still in with mastery
and discipline adjusting to these
different signs they call the island to
them this is a journey of becoming not
but going however many leaders today
really try and use old myths
regurgitated strategies and outdated
plans using kpi’s and indicators to plot
these really narrow corridors to hit
their objective and the most linear
efficient indirect route possible does
it seem familiar to you that we really
have a subjective and the idea is when I
get there as quick as we can it’s very
exhausting the problem of this method is
that sometimes we can be completely out
of sync with reality that we are not
adjusting dynamically to the environment
in fact we could be on a fast route to
disaster by simply staying in these
narrow corridors
rational logic that where we are heading
might not be where we need to be because
as any one of us know on any given day
for all our planning and our logic life
generally shapes up like this
some wildcard variable will just pop out
and we need to be able to respond well
this is a capability for a walker or for
any organization that we have people who
can respond well to a changing
environment
Charles neither a pioneer of positive
psychology said of setting objectives
that we don’t just need the willpower to
achieve our objective but we also need
the way power to find a way we need this
dynamic response ability so long sigh
calling the island to us we need to be
able to read the signs and to make
interconnections its systems thinking of
the highest order to create the space to
really look around and to to learn to
what is important and we need to be able
to move from stillness something I’ve
really learned about working alongside
wayfinders for a number of years now
there’s this quality of stillness that
they have that when the going gets tough
the tough get relaxed they come from
this place that’s really calm and
grounded so they can better and more
incisively see what’s going on even in
the midst of a great storm that they can
choose earn the rangatira space is often
forged amidst great tests and adversity
and in those times we really need to be
able to see their vision of their island
and have great courage
and that was my experience about 15
years ago I was diagnosed with breast
cancer and I was plunged into tear poor
a long dark night a place of stillness
where I really had to search for the
opportunity and adversity and to hold
the vision of their Island deep within
me even when I was an unknowing waters
and I saw a new Island the island of
recovery and during this period people
started to appear my farno who always
there for me
elders and mentors who came forward and
had a deep belief they could see their
Island they were on my Walker with me
and these elders called me to become a
ruler Henare ruler meaning to in the
woman a woman who traverses worlds
someone who works where the wayfinder
works and the place between what is
known and what is yet to be someone who
is serving a calling so can you see it
more fully into your donut eater space
and help others dip into the earth and
what island are you calling to you and
I’ll leave you with one final thought
that the true gift of wayfinding is not
arriving at the destination but it’s who we become along the way kyouda thank you
from the void and to the night and into
the world of light
the journey from takara the beginning of
time through tepid darkness and into
tell madam ER the world of light is at
the heart of great leadership in our
task as leaders with to reach into tech
hora and release that potential into the
world and create more light and we are
standing at a new threshold a 21st
century version of Tecate which is an
opportunity to help navigate from
darkness to light where people are
crying out for effective solutions in
the great leaders of the ancient
cultures of Mari and Polynesia where
wayfinders who went beyond the known and
on journeys of discovery to new horizons
and they navigated from a different
worldview in their experiences have
valuable insights for us as we navigate
an increasingly complex and changing
world
in today’s wave finders are the living
face of a philosophy of being that has
been transmitted from one generation to
the next through millennia without
magnetic compasses sextants
or maps these intrepid explorers
Traverse something like 25 million
square kilometers of ocean settling
different islands and island chains in
their double hulled sailing rocker those
sturdy vessels built to survive
ocean-going expeditions with the
inspiration for the America’s Cup racing
catamarans
and today’s modern GPS systems echo the
methods used by wayfinders to judge
position in relation to place markers
and their incredible feats have been
likened is akin to going to the moon
because they were journeying at a time
when most of Europe thought that the
world was flat and that if you just
careful to the edge of the world you
would drop off into space or you would
flip upside down and enter the inter
police I’d like to acknowledge my
co-authors John Punahou and hoturoa
Barclay Kuh together we form the
wayfinding leadership collaboration our
journey started when I was at Harvard
University and invited to write a book
on Maori leadership and that path took
me to hotel or thanks to John or to
lawyer infuse this work with the real
experiences of the wayfinders he
breathed life into it and he is the
direct descendent of hotel or the great
high priest who never gated the tiny nui
waka 2lt royal and I’d also like to
acknowledge the thousands of people who
have attended our workshops or listened
to our talks because you have really
helped this work come into being in a
powerful way the first step of
wayfinding leadership is what hauteur
describes is steeping unto your younger
terror space rangatira is a word that is
synonymous with chief leanness with
leader Lina’s and we mean look at that
word we see it comprises two parts run
or die of anger which means to wave in
terror group so a leadership our task is
to weave a group together now this isn’t
like some kind of master puppeteer who
holding all the strings and manipulating
people this is the act of weaving where
every person is a thread in the
community each person expressing
leadership at different times lending
their own specialness expertise and
effort as we weave as a movement through
time as part of something bigger than us
it also involves working with tension
and finding balance so we’re going to
have a video clip now where what is
going to describe the experience of a
young navigator who stepped into his
you
so our trainee navigator on Henry was
Wadi and this was it to be his big teeth
I was really cloudy 100% cloud cover for
three or four days and you couldn’t see
the horizon you couldn’t see the sunrise
all said he couldn’t see stars you
couldn’t see the moon the only way you
could keep the work on check was to see
how it was riding across the swells in
the direction that you needed it to go
it’s a very very difficult thing to do
what he was showing signs of anxiety
looked a little bit worried he kept
checking his books kept checking his
calculations and eventually he came up
to me and asked so what should I do and
I said to him just stop and just taken
everything that’s happening around him
and just spend that time to focus on all
the signs that were available and so he
did that he stopped he just listened to
everything with his body with his mind
with his heart and really take note of
everything that was around him and
during that time the sky opened up for a
fleeting moment he was a small gap in
the clouds and he was able to see the
crescent moon in its second quarter and
he knew that the line between the tips
of the quiz and moon gave us a
north-south direction from there he knew
that we were a little bit off course in
that he needed to make adjustments
recalibrate the direction of the worker
which he did and we sit sail
and after that experience he came and
set beside me and said that he now knew
that his ancestors would never ever let
him down and from that moment on I
called him the Navigator of our worker
the Navigator of home and he’d moved
into his own space his runner to the
space a space where he knew he would
never be lost the serenity the space is
a place of deep humility its leadership
with others and not above them it’s a
total commitment to your space your
environment your people which is what we
want for our worker crimp mo always said
that to be a master navigator you needed
to train people to be better than
yourself
success is succession and Mao said to be
so wayfinding leader stands with others
from a place of deep humility they help
others step into their own rangatira
space and they have a fierce commitment
to their people into their purpose this
view of leadership is markedly different
from the kinds of leadership we often
hear about especially in the corporate
world with some leaders cultivate their
positions like a lofty mast that they
alone can see the horizon and see things
that others can’t see that they have to
be that person around which everyone and
everything ought to cohere however
research shows that this kind of
leadership can seriously weaken an
organization and diminish relationships
and create dependency the problem with
this form of leadership is that the
power of one has the potential to
eclipse the power of the collective and
it means that people can’t express their
own rangatira space some people
slipstream and behind such leaders or to
think that to get ahead they have to
topple the leader in order to be able to
step into their own rangatira space a
word that is closely associated with the
rangatira is mana professor charles
royal describes mother is an energy a
consciousness in the world in a leader
who leads in a mother enhancing way
really seeks to awaken and release the
deeper potential in others they see the
whole person and all that they bring and
that to lead in a mother enhancing way
is to really pay attention to
relationships and that comes forward
through a process of reciprocity and
mutual recognition it points to the
collective effort in our way finding
leadership workshops we talk about two
forms of mana now in the Maori world
there are many forms of mana but for the
purposes of our exercise
we look at assumed malla now assumed
manga often occurs when we assume a
position of authority its associated
with words like gravitas charisma
Authority in my own experience when I’ve
picked up leadership roles it does feel
like some kind of manner got attached to
me took a while for me to realize
actually it wasn’t about me but it was
about the position I held it’s a very
inward focused type of thing or when
I’ve published an 8-year journal article
and sometimes it feels like the heavens
have opened up and some manner glitter
falls down and settles on my shoulders
and I Sparkle for a little while that’s
not the kind of manner that we’re
talking about in our workshops we ask
people to think about a great leader
someone of manner and they explore the
different qualities that come forward
you know these are some of the words
that people find and that discussion
about these great leaders it’s about
humbleness generosity strength and
wisdom it’s often very quiet and good
listening and what we see is not so much
what people accomplished in many cases
these great leaders have accomplished
great things rather what’s really
important is how they did it for what
purpose and in service of whom because
it’s more than simply accumulating
accomplishments as hottes said success
is succession the master navigator Papa
mopey I look used to say that success is
when you don’t have to intervene so when
he took these people on voyages his idea
of success on the voyage was when he
didn’t have to speak when he didn’t have
to intervene because he knew that if he
didn’t have to step in that he had
trained a crew that could survive and
thrive without him he understood that
it’s
not about being a know-it-all true power
comes from being an all know it the
other part of wayfinding leadership
alongside step into your longer tether
space is called the island to you the
navigation of oceanic navigation
involves reading different signs in our
environments such as the flight path of
homing boots the star path the
frequencies that ply the ocean cloud law
and these navigators see themselves in
the Walker as one and the idea is to
stay as still as possible while the
world flies past you in holding the
vision of their Island and calling it to
you it’s been described it’s like being
on a train yes sometimes when you’re on
a train it feels like you’re sitting
still in it’s the world flying past you
out and out the window it’s a similar
way of looking at things so by holding
that island clearly in their minds eye
and really staying still in with mastery
and discipline adjusting to these
different signs they call the island to
them this is a journey of becoming not
but going however many leaders today
really try and use old myths
regurgitated strategies and outdated
plans using kpi’s and indicators to plot
these really narrow corridors to hit
their objective and the most linear
efficient indirect route possible does
it seem familiar to you that we really
have a subjective and the idea is when I
get there as quick as we can it’s very
exhausting the problem of this method is
that sometimes we can be completely out
of sync with reality that we are not
adjusting dynamically to the environment
in fact we could be on a fast route to
disaster by simply staying in these
narrow corridors
rational logic that where we are heading
might not be where we need to be because
as any one of us know on any given day
for all our planning and our logic life
generally shapes up like this
some wildcard variable will just pop out
and we need to be able to respond well
this is a capability for a walker or for
any organization that we have people who
can respond well to a changing
environment
Charles neither a pioneer of positive
psychology said of setting objectives
that we don’t just need the willpower to
achieve our objective but we also need
the way power to find a way we need this
dynamic response ability so long sigh
calling the island to us we need to be
able to read the signs and to make
interconnections its systems thinking of
the highest order to create the space to
really look around and to to learn to
what is important and we need to be able
to move from stillness something I’ve
really learned about working alongside
wayfinders for a number of years now
there’s this quality of stillness that
they have that when the going gets tough
the tough get relaxed they come from
this place that’s really calm and
grounded so they can better and more
incisively see what’s going on even in
the midst of a great storm that they can
choose earn the rangatira space is often
forged amidst great tests and adversity
and in those times we really need to be
able to see their vision of their island
and have great courage
and that was my experience about 15
years ago I was diagnosed with breast
cancer and I was plunged into tear poor
a long dark night a place of stillness
where I really had to search for the
opportunity and adversity and to hold
the vision of their Island deep within
me even when I was an unknowing waters
and I saw a new Island the island of
recovery and during this period people
started to appear my farno who always
there for me
elders and mentors who came forward and
had a deep belief they could see their
Island they were on my Walker with me
and these elders called me to become a
ruler Henare ruler meaning to in the
woman a woman who traverses worlds
someone who works where the wayfinder
works and the place between what is
known and what is yet to be someone who
is serving a calling so can you see it
more fully into your donut eater space
and help others dip into the earth and
what island are you calling to you and
I’ll leave you with one final thought
that the true gift of wayfinding is not
arriving at the destination but it’s who we become along the way kyouda thank you
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