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"People programmed to be in
unilateral control and to maximize winning tend to have
difficulties in dealing with paradoxes [multiple
perspectives]. Paradoxes contain contradictions, and holding
contradictory views makes the actor vulnerable to criticisms
of being vague or self-contradictory." -
Chris Argyris, ―The Executive Mind and Double-loop Learning‖,
Org Dynamics, Autumn 1982
*Thanks to Bob
Rosen for his reminder that we had a COACH2
Module (18) on Perspective Taking in Coaching, in our
Coach2Integral Training Program, the "cue" helped me run
across this quote from Argyris and it speaks well to the jist
of why I just want this TPOV to be about perspective, rather
than perspective taking, which is only one idea in this
important dimensional process.
Perspective, as
I use it relates to: how things emerge in our perception and
judgment, related to how we make meaning.
Perspective is essential, as it
provides "context for data" in the ladder of
inference and to some extent
verifiable data, both Argyris innovations. We
know from the e5, that
perspective is critical, as we get 6
perspectives either sought, taken or emergent from those
orientations, as well as perspective being a position one
takes in relation to themselves or some other/thing.
In a complex world, perspective may
be all we get and from there, we'll have to go about
fashioning not only meaning making, but the sensemaking that
emerges... And most of this is almost always going to be driven
by perspective, or the lack of perspective.
I do want to point out that
perspective can be cued, and scaffolded,
but you have to be careful about thinking it's going to be
there, if it is not scaffolded. By that, I mean that a lot of
the time, perspective is directly related to the
maturation trajectory and
Subject/Object Relations, which are all
intertwined into Ego Complexity,
Social Perspective,
Hierarchical Task Performance,
Complexity of Information Processing,
Moral Reasoning, and likely
anything related to problem solving, and it's success and
failure, and if that is not complex enough, or a big enough
power node (Power Law Distribution)
for you, then imagine how perspective is emergent from
Personality Dynamics!
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