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Wayfinding has valuable lessons for leaders who navigate in an increasingly complex world.

From our book: Wayfinding and Leadership: Ground-breaking wisdom for developing leaders

Commitment and active engagement is a lifelong process for the wayfinder. It is recognition that learning is a condition of existence, and at the heart of that ethos is a deep humility.

From our book: Wayfinding and Leadership: Ground-breaking wisdom for developing leaders

Wayfinders are 'present' and recognise what is happening in the now moment while holding a clear intention of the destination to which they are heading. Wayfinding rests on being in the present moment, staying still, and becoming calibrated to signs.

From our book: Wayfinding and Leadership: Ground-breaking wisdom for developing leaders

A wayfinder leader is motivated by curiosity and is steeped in wonder.

From our book: Wayfinding and Leadership: Ground-breaking wisdom for developing leaders

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

W. B. Yeats (1865–1939)

Indigenous communities honour service to the group and are less impressed with rugged individualism. Indigenous leadership tends to be holistic and look at all elements, not allowing the rational and logical to exclude other ways of knowing.

From our book: Wayfinding and Leadership: Ground-breaking wisdom for developing leaders

Wayfinders seek to 'recognise the invisible' - to reveal what might remain hidden - by being in a state of readiness and response-ability, being able to respond with wisdom and discernment and not merely being reactive.

From our book: Wayfinding and Leadership: Ground-breaking wisdom for developing leaders

Wayfinders refer to the wisdom of ancestors and consider future generations; they see the future destination in the present moment. They move from stillness and do not retreat from the world to achieve it.

From our book: Wayfinding and Leadership: Ground-breaking wisdom for developing leaders

We may be on target with the strategic plan, but off course from what is really important. More maps and abstractions are not the answer.

From our book: Wayfinding and Leadership: Ground-breaking wisdom for developing leaders

While two-dimensional 'square intelligence' dominates much of conventional leadership, wayfinding offers an expanded sphere intelligence approach that transforms the conventional approach. Inhabitants in the sphere's world have a far greater ability to see the whole and obtain a well-rounded perspective.

From our book: Wayfinding and Leadership: Ground-breaking wisdom for developing leaders

Wayfinders go beyond the known, and journey on voyages of discovery to new horizons.

From our book: Wayfinding and Leadership: Ground-breaking wisdom for developing leaders

A leader with humility is more likely to speak of the contributions of others and deflect attention from their own.

From our book: Wayfinding and Leadership: Ground-breaking wisdom for developing leaders

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