Dr. Joseph Riggio, PH.D. - Blognostra

I understand how this can happen - how an individual can be acting counter to themselves and not even truly realize it - but from the point of view of the observers these individuals are perceived to be hypocritical, lacking credibility, and out of integrity. What seems to be missing are the direct links between what they say they want, there expectations about that and the actual outcomes they produce.

Yet, this is the essence of high performance - aligning the intended outcome with the desire and expectation present in regard to it, that create the perceptual filters about what to be attending to and the behaviors that follow from attending in that way ... intended to produce the outcome.

Inside of operating in this way you'll find a "trick" of all exquisite performers - they operate at another place in time SIMULTANTEOUSLY to where they find themselves in the moment that directs their perceptions and behaviors in the moment. This ability to act in simultaneity with regard to two distinct points in time marks an almost universal trait of exquisite performers based on virtually all my research. I personally call this, "Acting With Intentionality".

Exquisite performers have learned how to consider the present moment in terms of where it will lead based on a filter they've organized at another point in time - the position they hold when their outcome has already been fulfilled.

One of the books I mentioned in yesterday's posting, "Making Waves - Irving Darkik and His Superwave Principal", addresses the idea of time in a very unique way as far as I'm concerned - and potentially offers a powerful means to improve performance, both individually and in groups/teams.

Without going into detail now, what Irving Dardik's observations and subsequent research have begun to demonstrate seems to suggest that, the natural patterns of the Universe occur in waves - and specifically in a wave form called, "superwaves" by Dr. Dardik. What I've observed matches this as well.

Back in the early 1990's I apprenticed with Roye Fraser, the creator of the Generative Imprint(tm) Model. One aspect of Roye's work that I learned from him was in relation to the idea of ontological oscillation and the impact on perception and cognition. This has to do with an ontological principal Roye has worked with for many years now - the position you hold regarding "who you are", or the ontological position ... you way of BEING ... creates the fundamental experience you have. This would be a very simplified explanation, and in part the explanation relies on the idea that the position you hold determines first your perceptions and then the behaviors that follow.

I have continued to develop this idea of working with "ontological oscillation" in my own work. I have taken this idea an applied it to the social consideration - i.e.: creating exquisite performances in relation to and with others - and I have found that these performances occur in waves very much like those described by Dr. Dardik.

The highest performances are generated when the pattern used to produce them occurs in waves that match Irving Dardik's "superwave" description ... however, few if any businesses or leaders elsewhere realize this and insist on a constant wave form in the organizations - eventually leading to an uncontrollable entropic condition (the system collapses in on itself).

What I further found has to do with the significant drivers of exquisite performance in human systems ... they are all somatically held. The most critical thing you can learn to do when you want to increase performance in human systems would be to learn how to both observe and then direct the somatic experience of the individuals that comprise the system, as well as how to generate a singularity in the somatic system at large. Applying the superwave principal to the action of driving the somatic experience vastly increases the effect in the system.

This observation has significant evidential correlation with observations made in other biological and social systems as well.

In my opinion what we'd be well advised to be doing more of would include noticing for what we are aiming at producting beyond how we intend to get there, establishing and holding the teleological consideration at all times - letting the outcome lead, not from behind, but rather from in front of the system as we know it to be.

If more leaders did things this way we'd see much, much less hypocrisy in the system. Instead of thinking, "How will this make me look?" and/or "How will this help me to get more of what I want?" - (the "Sin of King Midas) - they will approach their reign as leaders in relation to what the outcome for the system will be and only secondarily how do they want to be positioned within that newly emerging system.

In this way leaders can both get what they want for the system and for themselves. By expanding the scope of consideration they are operating within they will have moved beyond self-interest to a position of social-interest, which includes themselves ... and so much more.

Joseph Riggio, Ph.D.
Tiburon, CA

PS - Hey Al, sign-up for the green energy program, it'll only cost you a few bucks a year and you'll be able to live with yourself - AND we may also be able to begin believing you again - then think what you might actually accomplish.

Finally ... I've gotten the production of the EPC(tm) Series One Audio CD Set finished!!! This is a four CD and one Video CD set, with the full workshop manual included as well, about the EPC2 - Exquisite Performance Coaching Process. I'm making this last offer to purchase at the discounted price until 31 August 2006 ... after that the price will increase without exceptions!

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