The Worldview Paradox
Leading at Light Speed is a powerful leadership book for businesses, public agencies, and nonprofits revealing the 10 specific ways an organization must act and behave to build trust, spark innovation, and create a high-performing organization.
The Worldview Paradox is a concept in Leading at Light Speed described in Chapter 9 along with three other Leadership Paradoxes. The other three are available upon purchase of the book.
In this time of globalization and increasing diversity, a true leader must open their eyes to the philosophy of different worldviews. Each worldview carries with it a specific and definable mental model of how the world works – and how it should be. The Western worldview schools us to look at everything rationally. Our initial instinct when facing an issue is to examine the specifics and find a way to solve it. Taking for granted the inherent order and logic of the world, this isn’t such a bad idea.
The Western worldview, which teaches rationality, is only one of many~The Western worldview of rationality is but one of many~The Western worldview, which teaches rationality, is only one of many}. Philosophers and sociologists have identified at least four different worldviews: the Western, the Eastern, the Existentialist, and the Religious.
The Western Worldview favors the rational and the power of free will. Initiative, action and the tackling of challenges are stressed. Uncertainty and Irrationality are not welcome in this worldview. Perhaps that’s why Westerners enjoy neat plot lines that play so well on television. It’s comforting to see sixty-minute solutions, easy outs, and resolvable dilemmas. This worldview unfortunately does not encourage us to open our eyes too wide, and does nothing to prepare us for the complex chaos of reality.
The Eastern worldview, in contrast, focuses on the unknown. It holds that intuition and insight can help us tap into deeper areas of spiritual meaning. It assumes that the unconscious mind has access to deeper and more meaningful insights than those available through rational thinking, and that this non-conscious awareness can be improved through training. In the Eastern worldview, people act under the influence of unseen spiritual forces, and their lives are suffused with this unseen spiritual world. People with this worldview have a deep psychological need for meditation, for quieting the rational mind, for a personal experience of the unknowable. Simple solutions to complex problems are distrusted.
A third worldview is the Existentialist which teaches that all human experiences are unexplainable and that the only true way to exist to learn to make the most of these experiences, as regards both the family and the world in which we live. This worldview teaches that to succeed in life is to recognize one’s own beliefs, the hold true to them, to act according to them and to live a life built upon them. Existentialist thinkers such as Soren Kierkegaard or Jean-Paul Sartre view human beings as forced to deal with circumstances way outside their control – and having no choice but to find meaning by discovering what’s truly important to each individual. A corollary to this worldview is that what’s important to you has no bearing on what’s important to me. Each must find their path to individual truth.
The fourth worldview, the Religious, holds that knowledge is conferred through faith, and that a kind of mystical power is vested in God or a system of gods. People living according to this philosophy allow their decisions to be influenced by beliefs and religious traditions, and are drawn to prayer and religious experience~People who follow this philosophy are drawn to prayer and religious experience, and use their beliefs and religious traditions to influence their decisions~People living according to this philosophy allow their decisions to be influenced by beliefs and religious traditions, and are drawn to prayer and religious experience}. Religious leaders are powerful within this worldview – any world event is seen as the work of God and they must work to interpret these events through religious teaching and training.
All four of these worldviews mingle together in today’s organizations. At one of our client companies, for example, teams of software developers from the U.S., Europe and Asia routinely work together on projects. Team members have all four worldviews. Communication is the team leader’s forte, but even he falls victim to frustration as the deadlines approach and people start to react differently. “One guy was praying, another was cursing our sub-contractors, and a third was laughing at the absurdity of it all,” he said.
An effective leader is able to navigate the contradictions of these worldviews. A broad sense of humor goes a long way. But it’s also important to establish a framework of core values that can provide people a focus and serve as a bridge between different worldviews. A true leader must head discussions of the difference between individual values and those of the organization (the first quantum leap). They must be prepared to teach others how deeply, frustratingly complex the world is. How you decide to navigate and lead through this disparity of convictions is a test of how capable you are of engagement, communication and the building of a high-performing organization.
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