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Open Leadership: from Material to Mental Growth
The present-day world seeks economic growth, which is, broadly seen, ‘material’ ― either in the sense of being touchable or, at least, transposable, thereby tradeable. Mental growth is different and needs Open Leadership. Growth is a natural urge. Everything in nature continually grows intra- and intergenerationally. AURELIS itself is based on a natural growth philosophy. Read the full article…
Why Open Leadership is the Future
The future: soon enough, and from then, forever. Open Leadership is about getting real, which is increasingly necessary to thrive as an individual, an organization, and a species. Increasingly necessary It’s 2023. The past few years have seen global turmoil as never before in my lifetime. We see crisis on top of crisis: a viral Read the full article…
Why is there so Little Open Leadership?
The advantages are huge, yet too little attention goes to it in practice. Causes go from little theoretical thinking about it to a lack of Openness in the whole of society. Please read: Open Leadership is Bigger than You A leader is ‘only a person.’ One cannot expect him to be an Ubermensch. A leader Read the full article…
Open Leadership: Compassion
Open Leadership is fully Compassionate, not in the sense of ‘pity,’ but in the Eastern (and, profoundly, also Western) meaning of empathy-beyond-the-conceptual. Please read Compassion, Basically; Compassion = Empathy-Beyond Compassion is the top level and the goal of the AURELIS project. All other AURELIS levels are subordinate to this. Compassion is on top at the Read the full article…
Open Leadership: Listening to Putin
April 2022. The present situation in Ukraine results from a total lack of Open Leadership. Money, power, status Of course, it’s about big money, including recent discoveries of even more oil in the Black Sea and the Donbass, taxes on the use of pipelines and the economic future of Russia versus Ukraine. Of course, it’s Read the full article…
Confucian Open Leadership
In my view, Confucian Leadership is about Open Leadership after transcending some inconsistency. Allow me at first to transcend. Then – some patience needed – I will come back to Confucianism itself. Heavenly Any theorizing about ‘heaven’ as if it is conceptually graspable is not Aurelian. It denotes a direction toward the ungraspable, a direction Read the full article…
Open Leadership (Animated Video)
Without further delay, in this animated video, I bring you an introduction to Read&Do Open Leadership. If you want to cooperate, please contact us. If you have feedback, please let us know. Here is the full written text. Hi, my name is Jean-Luc Mommaerts. I am a physician and master in cognitive science and Artificial Read the full article…
Open Leadership: from Chaotic to Open
Opening chaos may reveal a meaningful core. Leadership grows when this is done to the benefit of many. The world is getting more and more complex. This may appear chaotic, or at least in danger to descend into chaos. A reaction may be an endeavor to avoid chaos by imposing order. Black or white. Or Read the full article…
Open Leadership – Read&Do
Part of the foreword to my book about Open Leadership (see Amazon Books in the menu). This is not one more kind of leadership. Any kind can be more or less ‘Open.’ I write this with a capital because it denotes the ‘universe inside’ from where one can more openly relate to the environment from Read the full article…
Open Leadership is Bigger than You
This is an invitation for any leader to grow. One needs to continuously grow to be an Open Leader. ‘Open’ means open to all sides, especially the insides. “A big error for a leader is to put his self-interest above the group.” One hears this frequently. The solution looks simple: put the interest of the Read the full article…
Female-Friendly in Open Leadership
A woman should feel free to show she is a woman, not only in her appearance but also in her way of doing. She shouldn’t feel urged to take up a male way of doing things. Why is it more difficult for a woman to get to the top? In principle, this can have many Read the full article…
Open Leadership Diminishes Alienation
Karl Marx found in capitalism a huge source of workers’ alienation. It’s still a huge issue at present, if not more than ever. Open Leadership de-alienates. Alienation, briefly: not being in deep contact. Since any true contact with anything / anyone starts from deep and goes to deep, one may say that this is primarily Read the full article…
Transforming a Group into a Team through Open Leadership
There is much more positive energy in a team than in a mere group of people. Building a team may be your biggest key to success. It’s hard to pinpoint when a group becomes a team. Yet it’s important for any organization, even at a big scale. Is Europe a group of countries or a Read the full article…
Open Leadership: not I, not I and also not we as you and me.
People call for less egoism in world politics, world economics etc. The alternative is supposed to be ‘more we’ but this ‘we’ being ‘you and me’ eventually becomes ‘me and me’. You see? What is called a paradigm shift can be more of the same in another disguise. This is apparent in politics as it Read the full article…
Opening Leadership with Lisa
This is the introduction to a Lisa File (40 p.). If you want the whole file, please contact lisa@aurelis.org, stating who you are and why you want the file. For more about the Lisa Files, click here. In the ever-evolving landscape of modern leadership, where rapid technological advancements and changing workforce dynamics continuously reshape organizational Read the full article…
Ethical Leadership is Open
Openness to the full human being is the one characteristic that makes leadership transcend management or bossiness. It is ethical to the core. Full human being At any time, an individual is consciously aware of a tiny part of what meaningfully goes on in his mind/brain at the mental-neuronal pattern level. Meanwhile, the other – immensely Read the full article…
Open Letter to Leadership in Second Wave of Corona
A second wave in the US and Europe is almost inevitable. Of course, let’s not forget the rest of the world, especially the countries with much fewer resources. Much can be done to alleviate it if not only the virus is looked at, but also the human being. We urgently need to dare to question Read the full article…