Enlist the Hidden Figures characters introduced this week in our discussion. Drawing upon our sources investigate how these individuals move NASA into a new consciousness. Collaboratively:
- Explore how your selected characters collectively disrupt former mental models through attending, suspending, and sensing this new consciousness; how NASA confronts uncertainty and ambiguity; how it learns to unwrap its “triggers, assumptions, and aversions”.
- How do you see NASA, an organization, sense and present a new organizational identity?
- How does it acquire a deeper collective-awareness and identity?
- What lessons are learned from this presentation?
- For the assignment, with your group, we will turn our attention from ourselves and individuals within an organization to the broader organization and eco-system. Through the same inquiry process we used during the week’s discussion, we will explore how NASA itself constructs an identity–as an organization and as a part of an eco-system. We will see how “mapping deep territories and sensing” can occur at the individual and the organizational level.
- Using Silsbee and Scharmer as guides, what can you learn about the identities and presences of individuals and organizations?
- If we are indeed an eco-system, composed of eco-structural leaders, how can we unpack this knowledge and influence the emergence of a collective and connected identity?
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