Career Creative Curriculum 1.0

It is not the critic who counts; not the one who pointsout how the strong one stumbles, or where the doer ofdeeds could have done them better. The credit belongsto the one who is actually in the arena, whose face ismarred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives val-iantly; who errs and comes short again and again; be-cause there is not effort without error and shortcomings;but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knowsthe great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spendsherself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in theend the triumph of high achievement and who at theworst, if she fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Sothat her place shall never be with those cold and timidsouls who know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt (pronouns adjusted by SD)Our nature as human beings is to exercise our enormouspower in the service of life, to enrich life in ourselves andothers. - Marshall RosenbergEveryone has been made for some particular work, andthe desire for that work has been put in every heart. - Jalaluddin Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing thereis a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down inthat grass the world is too full to talk about. - Jalaluddin RumiThere is an invisible strength within us; when it recogniz-es two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger. - Jalaluddin RumiLooking up gives light, although at first it makes youdizzy. - Jalaluddin RumiRabbi Tarfon taught: “It is not your responsibility to finishthe work [of perfecting the world], but you are not freeto desist from it either.” - Courtesy of John Rowe, in conversa- tion with Jerry DoyleIn thinking about religion and society in the 21st centu-ry, we should broaden the conversation about faith fromdoctrinal debates to the larger question of how it mightinspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging thatredeem us from our solitude, helping us to constructtogether a gracious and generous social order. - Jonathan SacksLeadership is about making others better as a result ofyour presence and making sure that impact lasts in yourabsence. - Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook

If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together tocollect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, butrather teach them to long for the endless immensity ofthe sea. - Antoine de Saint-ExuperyEvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision forthe limits of the world. - Arthur SchopenhauerTo the person who does not know where he wants to gothere is no favorable wind. - SenecaIt’s not what the vision is, it’s what the vision does. - Peter SengeThis is the true joy in life, the being used for a purposerecognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a forceof nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailmentsand grievances complaining that the world will not de-vote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion thatmy life belongs to the whole community and as long as Ilive it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want tobe thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work,the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no‘brief candle’ to me. It is sort of a splendid torch whichI have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make itburn as brightly as possible before handing it over tofuture generations. - George Bernard Shaw

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creatingyourself. - George Bernard ShawTo be in hell is to drift. To be in heaven is to steer. - George Bernard ShawYou have to know what you want. And if it seems to takeyou off the track, don’t hold back, because perhaps thatis instinctively where you want to be. And if you holdback and try to be always where you have been before,you will go dry. - Gertrude SteinVision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan SwiftMost people lead lives of quiet desperation and go tothe grave with the song still in them. - Henry David ThoreauIt’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The questionis, what are we busy about? - Henry David ThoreauIf one advances confidently in the direction of herdreams, and endeavors to live the life which she hasimagined, she will meet with success unexpected incommon hours.- Henry David Thoreau (pronouns adjusted by SD)

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimateconcern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns aspreliminary and which itself contains the answer to thequestion of a meaning of our life. - Paul TillichYou’ve got to think about big things while you’re doingsmall things, so that all the small things go in the rightdirection. - Alvin TofflerDo your little bit of good where you are; it’s those littlebits of good put together that overwhelm the world. - Desmond TutuHow could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeep-ers? How would it be an orchestra if all were Frenchhorns? - Desmond TutuIf you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talkto your enemies. - Desmond TutuMy humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only behuman together. -Desmond TutuYou cannot depend on your eyes when your imaginationis out of focus. - Mark Twain

Only when power is widely distributed, and only whenpeople work together to create the world they wantto live in -- only then can transformation be deep andholistic. While also being liberating, compassionate, andinclusive. - Sarah van GelderMissing from the life of modern man is the deepestconnection with the changes of the seasons, sunrise andsunset, the phases of the moon, the dark forest, the soulof brother animal and the soil. Man’s soul is starving fromthis separation, lack and poverty. - Marie-Louise von Franz, quoted by Lewis LafontaineThere is a world of difference between an inference anda feeling. You can reason that the universe is a unitywithout feeling it to be so. You can establish the theorythat your body is a movement in an unbroken processwhich includes all suns and stars, and yet continue tofeel separate and lonely. For the feeling will not corre-spond to the theory until you have also discovered theunity of inner experience. Despite all theories, you willfeel that you are isolated from life so long as you aredivided within.But you will cease to feel isolated when you recognize,for example, that you do not have a sensation of the sky:you are that sensation. For all purposes of feeling, yoursensation of the sky is the sky, and there is no “you” apartfrom what you sense, feel, and know. -Alan Watts, quoted by Maria Popova

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotised by theillusion of time, In which the so-called present momentis felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline betweenbetween an all-powerfully causative past and an ab-sorbingly important future. We have no present. Ourconsciousness is almost completely preoccupied withmemory and expectation. We do not realise that therenever was, is, or will been any other experience thanpresent experience. We are therefore out of touch withreality. We confuse the world as talked about, describedand measured with the world as it actually is. We are sickwith a fascination for the useful tools of names and num-bers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. - Alan Watts, quoted by Johnny TennGood business leaders create a vision, articulate thevision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly driveit to completion. - Jack WelchQuestions that have no right to go away are those thathave to do with the person we are about to become;they are conversations that will happen with or withoutour conscious participation. - David WhyteThe marvelous thing about a good question is that itshapes our identity as much by the asking as it does bythe answering. - David Whyte

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas-ure.It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented and fabulous.Actually, who are you not to be?You are a child of the Universe.Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so thatotherpeople won’t feel insecure around you.We were born to make manifest the universal glory thatis within us.It’s not just in some of us — it’s in everyone.And as we let our own light shine,we unconsciously give other peoplepermission to do the same.As we are liberated from our own fear,our presence automatically liberates others- Marianne WilliamsonIf someone tells you that there is a rule, break it - that’sthe only thing that moves things forward.- Hans Zimmer, composer



Sources and readingsAbram, The Spell of the SensuousBarry, Shadow Work http://www.shadowwork.com/Beck et al, Manifesto for Agile Software Development, http://agilemanifesto.org/Bohm, On DialogueBrown, Change by DesignBurnett and Evans, Designing Your Life: Build a Life That Works for YouCampbell, The Hero with a Thousand FacesCapra and Luisi, The Systems View of LifeChristensen, How Will You Measure Your Life?Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective PeopleGodin, What To Do When It’s Your TurnGoleman, Emotional IntelligenceHill, Collective GeniusIsaacs, Dialogue and The Art of Thinking TogetherKegan and Lahey, Immunity to ChangeKofman, Conscious BusinessLaloux, Reinventing OrganizationsLewitz and Neidhardt, Showing UpLipmanowicz and McCandless, The Surprising Power of Liberating StructuresMartin, Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive AdvantageMayer, The Peoples’ ScrumMcLaren, The Language of Emotions

Moore and Gillette, King, Warrior, Magician, LoverPeck, A Different DrumPearl, Will There Be Donuts?Ray, The Highest GoalRoth, The Achievement HabitSenge, The Fifth DisciplineScharmer, Theory UScharmer and Kaufer, Leading from the Emerging FutureSchwaber and Sutherland, The Scrum Guide http://www.scrumguides.org/Seelig, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20Sirajuddin and Willeke, Temenos, A Reliable Vehicle for Organizational TransformationStrozzi-Heckler, The Leadership DojoStrozzi-Heckler, The Art of Somatic CoachingTurner and Udall, The Way of nowhereTorbert, Action InquiryUdall, Riding the Creative RollercoasterVision quests: e.g. http://sacredpassage.com/, http://northerndrum.com/Whittington, Systemic Coaching and ConstellationsWilliams, The Work You Were Born To Do