More Attention
Thanks to George Nemeth for his comment on yesterday’s posting…
Michael – That’s a great case for what “The Most Valuable Asset” is. Reflecting on that, it think it’s safe to say that there isn’t one single MVA, but the intersection of people, knowledge, time, and attention. Thanks for spurring those thoughts!Yes, I think you’re right about not one most valuable, George. And still, something not quite right for me about lumping them all together at same Level of importance… or maybe not right about our holding them out as separate at all. Somehow, our simply mixing them up in a meeting bowl lacks the Depth I’m fishing for — and the Depth I’ve experienced in some meetings and not others.
As I roll around with this a bit, I find myself mapping these things back to the frame I laid out in InvitingOrganizationEmerges. That article connects Native Peoples’ wisdom, Fast Company Magazine, OpenSpaceTech and other stories on a set of nested frames translated from the work of Ken Wilber.
Seems to me that in our story (if not yet in our actions) we have moved from valuing People to Time to Knowledge. With luck, we might just refine our working story further to focus on Attention, the Level beyond Knowledge. With each Level, we drill deeper into who we are and what we need from each other, the work gets physically easier, but also more potent and harder to manage and control. Not one more valuable, because all of them always and already present… but each a little deeper and more challenging and powerful to work with.