We’ve all had those perfect moments when events that could never be predicted, let alone controlled, remarkably seem to guide us along our path. Carl Jung called this phenomena “synchronicity” – “a collaboration between persons and events that seems to enlist the cooperation of fate.” In this book, Joseph Jaworski argues that the right state of mind will make you the kind of person who can enlist the cooperation of fate and take advantage of synchronicity, creating the conditions for “predictable miracles.” If you are tired of being the victim of circumstances, this book will teach you to be the kind of person who creates your own circumstances. Jaworski shares the story of his own escape from an inauthentic life and his journey into a world filled with possibility. He maps out the inner path of leadership for those who feel the call to achieve their full potential, using his own life story to teach readers a greater truth. He examines the fundamental shifts of mind that free us to seek out the power of synchronicity. After reading this book, you will discover your own power to help those realities unfold. You will learn to “listen” to realities that want to emerge in this world and acquire the courage to help them be born. "Synchronicity illustrates that leadership is about the release of human possibilities, about enabling others to break free of limits – created organizationally or self-imposed. Although this book describes the author's personal journey, it contains profound messages about organizational learning and effectiveness." – Scientific American
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Joseph Jaworski. Synchronicity. The Inner Path of Leadership
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION. by Peter Senge
PART ONE. PREPARING TO JOURNEY
1. WATERGATE
2. MAKING A MARK
3. THE JOURNEY BEGINS
4. FREEDOM
5. GRAND PRIX TEST RUN
6. THE ART OF LOVING
7. ONENESS
8. THE DREAM
9. CAIRO
10. COLLAPSING BOUNDARIES
PART TWO. CROSSING THE THRESHOLD
11. THE MYSTERY OF COMMITMENT
12. THE GUIDE
13. SYNCHRONICITY: THE CUBIC CENTIMETER OF CHANCE
PART THREE. THE HERO’S JOURNEY
14. THE MOMENT OF SWING
15. THE WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE: A GATEWAY TO DIALOGUE
16. DIALOGUE: THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE THINKING
17. LESSONS: ENCOUNTERING THE TRAPS
18. THE POWER OF COMMITMENT
PART FOUR. THE GIFT
19. THE RETURN – AND VENTURING FORTH AGAIN
20. SETTING THE FIELD
21. BARRICADES
22. NEW FRONTIERS
23. A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES
24. CREATING THE FUTURE
25. BRETTON WOODS AND HADAMAR
PART FIVE. THE JOURNEY CONTINUES
26. EXCERPTS FROM LETTERS ABOUT SYNCHRONICITY
27. SHIFTING THE PREVAILING BELIEF SYSTEM
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GENERON INTERNATIONAL
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Since the publication of the first edition of Synchronicity, I’ve been searching for the principles that lie at the heart of the phenomenon I described there – the capacity we have to sense and actualize emerging futures and to shape the future instead of simply responding to the forces at large. What is the source of our capacity to access the wisdom for action we need in the moment? How can we learn to enable that capacity, individually and collectively?
The answers to these questions were slowly revealed to me over a fifteen-year period. Because I feel adequate now to be explicit about what I’ve learned, I’ve added important material to this second edition, including four principles that lie at the heart of participating in the unfolding of the universe.
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I hope that this second edition will serve your own path toward higher stages of growth and development – and that it will also serve the leadership of your institution and of society as a whole.
Peter Senge’s introduction is designed to be a sort of road map for the reader. Senge is the author of the pathbreaking book, The Fifth Discipline, which caused a worldwide groundswell of interest in learning organizations. For the past fifteen years, Senge and a number of his colleagues at MIT have been working to understand how to move organizations along the path of learning. They believe that the essence of a learning organization involves not only the development of new capacities, but also fundamental shifts of mind, individually and collectively – the very shifts that are the subject of this book. Nothing of real substance happens, they say, without this kind of transformation. Given this interest in transformation and how it can be most effectively led, it seemed appropriate to ask Peter to write the introduction. I also had a more personal reason for requesting this of him. As Peter explains in the introduction, he was deeply involved in helping me to write the book, and he was present with me almost the entire time as I made the journey toward wholeness that I describe within these pages.
