When we work with leaders who truly lead from the Generative Edge, the first thing that strikes us is just how different they really are. Their uniqueness often appears to observers to be beyond description, an enigmatic state of beingness with a remarkable effect. They seem to take in more complexity, and see the interconnections. They are able to perceive trends outside their industry that affect the positioning of their businesses and create new growth opportunities. Generative Edge leaders have Strategic Awareness and Prosperity Consciousness that supports them to operate across borders and through boundaries. Generative Edge provides leaders with the energy, space and consciousness to perceive the whole system of which they are a part as well as taking responsibility for their roles within it.
When leaders choose to embody and be Generative Edge, they will face a personal challenge that requires transformational change – a radical shift in mind-set, attitude and behaviour that combines both Strategic Awareness and Prosperity Consciousness. What sets Generative Edge leaders apart is their ability to integrate and nurture both Strategic Awareness and Prosperity Consciousness. Most efforts at becoming Generative Edge falter because leaders often develop Strategic Awareness without having Prosperity Consciousness. Some leaders find it difficult to let go of the idea of the step-by-step linear construct of this reality that is based on the scarcity paradigm. This attachment to the scarcity paradigm blinds them from seeing what else is possible. They become stuck in their own realities, unable to change the lens through which they view the world. People who don’t have Prosperity Consciousness have a chronic sense of insufficiency about life. This is the fundamental mode from which they think, act, and function in the world.
What would it take for us let go of the step-by-step linear construct of this reality, and function from the Generative Edge?
……Steven and Chutisa Bowman
