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Atlas Shrugged

Posted on Sep 17th, 2008 by Christine : Positive Deviant, Director Syzergy Christine

 These are trying times and likely to get more so from a financial market sense. While I do not claim to be an expert on what is going on, I have spent the last 6 months studying the whole system and its demise for several hours  every day. This plus my every day ongoing reading from Buckminster Fuller, who talked about money/banking/business structure and its flaws 70 years ago until his death in the 80's. I always thought in regards to Bucky's financial work, he was a bit of a crack pot conspiracy theorist, but, no, in his usual quite genius, he studied the history, systems and structures with his usual rigor, and he is pretty much been ~on the money~:)

 
 I can feel confident in saying that at core, this is an INTEGRITY issue. To date, unless you are God, something does not come from nothing. (The Haldon Collider in Switzerland is attempting to explore what happened at the BIg Bang-but even then, they start with an energetic something). And yet this is exactly how our economic system seems to be built. We have created enormous something from nothing. People who knew how to play this game, have become ~rich~ from this strategy. (I put rich in brackets with purpose-for how real is this wealth?) It has had nothing to do with work, or legitimate exchange of energy. Just the opposite, it has had to do with non energy-or non stuff- big black holes of non stuff. Monopoly money.  The shadow side of real capital, (something that has intrinsic VALUE). While it is possible to argue that the players have had every right to play this game, and they have because it has been the prevailing game, like the mess we have made with the environment, the game has been very short term focused, very narcissistic, and built on greed and fear, with complete disregard to consequences, and long term affects, or truth.
 
I have been floored to discover just how the system works. I feel pretty sure most people don't know. We assume that the deposits we make go towards other people's loans etc..and on it goes. But no. That is not how it works. My deposit enables up to 30 times the deposited amount to be CREATED. From where you might well ask? From thin air. Something from nothing. Please check out the link below to the video clip that explains this.  And send it on...people need to know this. How come I have spent a lifetime on ongoing education, and in my mid forties, didn't know this? I feel like a fool.
 
While the current situation goes well and truly beyond this level of complexity, and is a fascinating study in greed, plus what I call ~little atrocities~ saying yes to small seemingly innocuous actions that are borderline in integrity, that pave the way for another little atrocity, that in its accumulative affects takes the perpetrator into full blown criminal activity (the cooked frog syndrome-place a frog into a pot of cold water and gradually turn up the heat and the frog goes to sleep as he gets cooked), its essence is built on a lack of Integrity. Lack of personal integrity, lack of systems integrity, lack of perspective integrity. As Bucky said, we either make money or we make sense, and I have struggled to understand just what he meant, and in what context he was speaking. Now it seems clear. For those of you who want to really get Bucky's perspective of this, check out his book,  Critical Path, especially Part 1.
 
If we add Integral Theory on top of Bucky's work, with the Western World centred at Orange-which is all about keeping score, the achiever self, stuff accumulation, better than the Jones's etc, we really begin to see the game at play. Orange is breaking down to green. (which has its own unique problems)
 
The good news is- and in truth I am excited about the events, even though I don't expect to come out unscathed financially- that in order for there to be change of any note, we need to see the old structure disintegrate. We need Atlas to shrug and for it to be a decent shrug. For most of the somethings out of nothings to go back to nothings, which is in truth where they always where.
 
In the mean time..what can we do? What can I do? What can you do?
 
1. Get educated if you are not already. The world has shifted and we all need to be awake and alert.
 
2. Get your own house in order- and I mean really in order. To this purpose I have attached a Personal Inventory-a little check list of things to clean up. Some of these things may seem a long way from the bigger topic at hand. How can cleaning out your garage help? We are talking about foundational work. Integrity means wholeness, and wholeness doesn't exclude anything. The more in Integrity you are, the better able to weather the storms, emotionally, financially, spiritually, and in relationship. This is our work right now. To go into all the dark places, in your own life, in your environment, in your work, and clean up and out, and get back into the highest form of Integrity you can summon. 
 
3. Recognise that this process is the pulling of the shadow out of the closet, and that once the shadow is out, and in the light, it does go away. What we do not want though is for the shadow to jump back into another closet, but for it to be dealt with squarely. RIP and move on. Therefore, this is a great time, with incredible opportunities.
Out of EMERGEncy, we EMERGE. Humans become incredibly creative when the chips are down. New opportunities are everywhere. Focus on this after your house is in order.
 
 
As always, I welcome any feedback, response, etc. Please note that this is actually my blog, which can be reached at http://syzergy.biz/wp/ 
 
 
The link is below, plus the attachment, and  a little quote pulled from todays News Dissector, www.mediachannel.org (made me laugh)
 

 

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279&q=money+is+debt&total=1856&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

 

In other economic news, President Bush announced another massive bailout today, saying that he had completed a deal for China to buy the United States in its entirety.

"This was a difficult deal to pull off," Mr. Bush acknowledged. "The hard part was identifying the parts of the U.S. that China didn't already own."

 
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Positive Deviants

Posted on Sep 22nd, 2008 by Christine : Positive Deviant, Director Syzergy Christine

After years of working in the world of coaching and personal/team development I have finally clarified who I really add value to. There is even a new category for these people. They are called Positive Deviants. Check this out and see if you are a Positive Deviant. (This is my interpretation of who a Positive Deviant is)

 

Who are Positive Deviants?

 

A deviant is someone who departs from the norm. They don’t do things the usual way. A positive deviant is someone who departs from the norm in a way that adds value versus creates pain.

 

Characteristics of a Positive Deviant.

 

Very open, curious and willing to explore ideas. A positive deviant knows that staying in the question will, with time, provide an answer. They are always looking for better, faster, less costly in time, energy and money- ways, to do things. Their minds are like eternal antenna’s, tuned frequencies that most people miss. They surrender their own way/idea/process in a heart beat if offered something that will work better, faster, cheaper and for the greater advantage to all.

 

Daring, courageous, motivated by adventure, what’s next? A positive deviant is bold enough to initiate new idea’s. They don’t need the idea to be perfect first. They will continue to work with the prototype until they get the major kinks out. Their motivation is about giving it a go, versus being afraid of failure.

 

Receptive to feedback. Positive deviants want feedback, from others and from the environment. Feedback is their altimeter, allowing for subtle or overt corrections as they move forwards. If the feedback is delivered in an ego attacking way, they move through their ego issues far more quickly than most, and take the personal out of it, asking if the feedback has use and/or truth.

 

Intrinsically motivated to do extrinsic “value to society” activities. The positive deviant has a very strong intrinsic motivator that is about service to others, the environment, community. They no longer work for a living. They work for the love of their work and the value it adds to others. They have a comprehensive perspective of their place and part in the world. They are plugged into a far greater game than the game of work for money, status and stuff. They have their egoic self on a tight leash because of their highly developed self awareness.

 

Passionate, energetic, vibrant, enthusiastic, dynamic. Positive deviants seems to have a well of energy that explodes into everything they do. Their view is about what is possible, how can we do this, what can I do, what do I need to see that I am not? Speed bumps and road blocks are perceived as opportunities to make course corrections and  keep going.

 

High cognitive development. Most positive deviants have a quick and agile mind, and can see the META meta perspective. Because perspective is relative, positive deviants are able to go to the highest altitude perspective with ease. They grasp complex issues, integrating them and staying within the issue until they have found the simplicity on the other side. They like to be challenged in their thinking, and to practice daily, mind expanding activities, such as dialogue, learning and practical experimentation.

 

High morals and ethics. By nature of the word positive in the positive deviant title, positive deviants have a very sharply tuned integrous compass. They have an awareness of the affect of their actions, thoughts, and words, and seek to only contribute in a positive way. Integrity is their code. They are constantly practicing Integrity, on an ever increasing basis.

 

A Sixth Sense. Positive deviants have a high degree of self esteem, universal trust, and intuitive respect. Therefore, they seem to be tuned in to a extra sensory compass. This shows up in different ways for different people. For some it is a highly tuned ability to read people, for others it is a very agile grasp of structure, form and systems. Others have a very highly evolved sense of time and space. Whatever the skill, it is based on an ability to tune into the intuitive and have the courage and grace to act from this, with humility, not righteousness.

 

You will know from reading the above list if you are either a positive deviant or moving towards being a positive deviant. Positive Deviants can  be found in all walks of live. Generally they tend to keep a fairly low profile. They want their actions to do the talking. In Integral Theory, you could describe positive deviance as being second tier, integral thinkers and operators.

 

 

There is also such a thing as a company or team within a company who chooses to operate as a Positive Deviant organisation.  For example- Google, Apple, Virgin all demonstrate signs of positive deviant behaviour.

 

My work is to teach/coach/facilitate positive deviants in support of their comprehensive Integrity.


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