1. Irony
   1. Those on the fringe trying to create community often don't believe in leadership
   2. functional communities are good and leaders are not inherently bad
2. Decision making
   1. caring for people
      1. "well-discharged people are much better able to keep thinking in stress conditions than people who are carrying emotional loads"
3. Dynamic Governance
   1. sociocracy is how groups of people make decisions --> back to Comte and John Stuart Mill (shift since industrial revolution as how to organize communities so that we can advocate for the people by the people
      1. Golf
   2. flocks of birds, swarms of bees --> informing how humans collectively make decisions
4. Chakras & Spiral Dynamics
   1. Blue = Blue Throat Vishuddha Chakra = clarity/order
   2. orange with some red = Solar Plexus Manipura Chakra = personal autonomy
   3. Green = Green Heart Anahata Chakra = compassion/community/heart
   4. Beige = Root Chakra -- Muladhara
   5. Red and Purple as Second Svadisthana chakrta
   6. Second Tier of Yellow and Turquoise move toward the higher chakras of 3rd eye and crown/ ajna + sahsrara
5. 6 hats
   1. thinking about thinking == design
   2. creativity = brainstorming
   3. information/judegements/benefits and feelings all seem to be the discriminatory process following brainstorming
6. Shock Doctrine
   1. I enjoy having a phrase for this mentatily of capitalizing on extreme events. (9/11 and Before)
7. Psychopathy
   1. I enjoy the contextualizing a psychopath in his element (pirate, power politician) makes him seem almost normal (when you rewrite the rules/worldview).
   2. The film 'The Corporation' makes a great case that corporations are very similar to psychopaths
8. Successful Meetings
   1. Think & Listen
   2. Go Round = Check In / Attunement
   3. Open Agenda
9. Ten Faces of Innovation
   1. Archetypes -- Articulating different roles that synthesize into a productive model
   2. 3 Learners -- Anthropologist (worldview), Cross-pollinator (multi-faceted), Experimenter
   3. 3 Organizer -- Hurdler, Collaborator (true team player), Director (good at big picture)
   4. 4 Builders -- Experience Architect (set the stage), Set Designer, Storyteller (weaves narrative), Caregiver