OPEN LEADERSHIP (Jeff Balin)

Find the intersection or the healthy tension between idealism and practicality. Examples in history of people who had mastered this: Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, JFK and the Moon, Buckminster Fuller. (drawing of intersection from set theory).

Definition of Terms:
-Practicality: Of relating to or manifested in practice or action.  Not theoretical or ideal.
-Idealism: Existing as a mental image in fantasy or imagination only, Broadly: lacking in practicality

Quotes:
-Imagination is far more important than knowledge (Einstein)
-Don't count your chickens before they hatch (anon)

Purpose-Driven Decision Funnel (drawing)

Guided Visualization: Imagine you are in Times Square where hundreds of people walk by and there is a billboard that they can't avoid seeing.  See a man who comes by and tells you that the billboard is *yours* and you can put whatever message you want on it and all those hundreds of people will see it and be affected.  What message would you put on the billboard?  See it.  See people stopping to look at it.  See them affected by the message.  What kind of people are they?  See them taking the message with them in their lives and through years.  See the impact of that message spreading out around the country.

Spectragraph of where we land in an axis of Idealism vs. Practicality

Small group exercise to brainstorm strategies for incorporating idealism in work.