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When you have a management problem,
the central problem is the problem of being a manager, of trying
to manage the problem. If
there is a manager there is already going to be insurmountable difficulty
because a manager as such is a stupid, unaware and calculating mind. The brain of such a human being will not
allow for a true overview, for holistic perception.
There can be no real awareness
and understanding of what is really going on where there is an effort
to manage. When you manage a person or a group
of people or some troublesome situation, you do it according to a pattern
in your brain that everyone and everything are supposed to conform
to. But real life in actual living situations
does not conform to the pattern in the stupidly clever brain of the manager. And the problem at hand, the actual difficulty,
is an aspect of real life, which is a totality without artificial boundaries. If
you do not go to where there are no boundaries, which is awareness
of the true whole, you will not see the problem in full perspective,
which means you will have to go on managing and managing, which further
means you will struggle again with the problem in various forms as
something chronic and never arrive at a full release from it.
Now, here is the real solution
to your latest management problem:
Stop trying to manage, to cope,
to handle the situation, people or person. Let go into a higher awareness. Get above the problem where it is just
an aspect of something, part of a greater system filled with unknown
dynamical causal feedback loops.
If you are truly hearing all
this, then be very observant of yourself, of your usual thinking and
processes of managing. A
fully holistic intelligence can awaken in your consciousness, but only
if you approach it with clean intentions beyond your old tendency of
manipulating, of managing. But this does not mean you are slowly
building up something, that you are only accumulating books and articles
on these themes. You must
not merely manage information
and knowledge about all this or you haven’t really understood
a thing that has been said.
One thing is for sure: any problem
or crisis that arises should be treated above all as an opportunity
to develop holistic awareness and system thinking. Whatever
your position, learn to manage without managing. Get
completely out of your usual ruts and reactions as soon as you can. You
will have less of stress and more of positive opportunities.
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