Fusion Leadership

"The power of fusion is that it can release a set of subtle forces from within individuals"

"Subtle forces seem delicate and fragile, but they provide extraordinarily strong motivation and influence when unlocked."

"The challenge is for leaders to see that traditional organizational structure, with its enforced separation and boundaries, is artificial and designed for an earlier world of mass production."

"The transformational leader empowers others and keeps them focused."

"Leaders cannot simply decree new thinking about the unconscious forces that underlie teamwork, cooperation, involvement, and personal fusion. _Leaders first have to change themselves_."

"Fusion leaders appreciate the potential subtle forces in other people and create fusion processes to help people develop and act on their gifts and potentials."

"Managers conditioned to a programmed hierarchy have to learn to forget, to jettison ideas and habits that are no longer needed."

"There is no easy path to fusion leadership, but one place to start is the practice of being fully present in each moment."

"A vision can create a future so compelling that it lifts people from their preoccupation with minor difficulties and refocuses them on the path ahead."

"In an out-of-kilter world, leaders must focus on relationships, not things. Influence comes from relationships, which are based on the heart qualities of caring and compassion."

"Leaders communicate to manage mindsets, imprinting people with the big picture and the basic ideas that will stimulate high performance."

"Leaders create the future by moving forward in the face of uncertainty, by taking chances, by behaving with courage."

"Trust is the lifeblood of leader relationships. Trust enhances every relationship, permitting a free flow of information, caring, and shared activity."

"The whole thrust of organizational fusion is to unleash the natural ingenuity and inherent capability that have been suppressed in the traditional hierarchy."

"The power of future search lies in its ability to achieve collaboration and fusion among diverse parts of the system."

"The fusion event changes mindsets that shape corporate culture."

"Both personal fusion and organizational fusion are about turning inward to manage outward."