Timely and Transforming Leadership Inquiry and Action: Toward Triple-loop Awareness

• Main Author: Bill Torbert
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: ARINA, Inc. 2005-05-01
• Series: Integral Review
• Subjects: transformation; leadership; action-logic; awareness; inquiry; learning; re-visioning; timely action; theory of time; triple-loop; Anne Starr; Bill Torbert
• Online Access: http://integral-review.org/pdf-template-issue.php?pdfName=issue_1_starr_and_torbert_timely_and_transforming_leadership_inquiry_and_action.pdf

Drawing from situations in business, art, leadership education, and home life, this essay experiments with diverse ways to communicate the experience of triple-loop awareness. Contrasting it with single- and double-loop feedback in a person’s awareness, the triple-loop supposedly affords the capacity to be fully present and exercise re-visioning, frame-changing timely leadership. The essay presents an encompassing theory of time and of its relationship with our own capacity for awareness. The experiment concludes with the reminder to readers that a first reading is like walking around the base of a mountain. The authors invite readers to try out one of the uphill paths of being with these experiments with a different kind of attention.