Clarity Words
Collaboration versus Competition
Collaboration is the light side of competition. Collaboration uses the energy of contribution to move a system to wholeness. It signifies a team approach. Competition uses the energy of self importance and signifies an individual approach. Within organizations and...
Contribution versus Passivity
Contribution is the light side of passivity. Contribution is participating with ideas, actions, and solutions. Passivity is a form of resistance and withholding. Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as...
Vitality versus Entropy
Vitality is the light side of entropy. Vitality means aliveness. It is lights-on systems with a focus on reorganization, expansion and growth for personal, family and business systems. Entropy means loss of aliveness, lights-off systems with a focus on...
Creativity versus Motivation
Creativity is the light side of motivation. Creativity is the first step towards transformation in systems. It is internally generated and is a spontaneous response to a natural desire to grow. It is adaptive. Motivation is externally generated and is a fearful...
Alignment versus Anarchy
Alignment is the light side of anarchy. In alignment, all parties see the vision, and in their own unique way, are able to contribute creatively to the bigger picture, creating flow. Alignment is constructive. Anarchy is destructive. Anarchy in a team creates lack of...
Innovation versus Imitation
Innovation is the light side of imitation. Innovation means taking a look at a possibility with a fresh perspective and seeing a way that it can be improved upon. Imitation is repetition of old patterns. It results in a lack of creativity. An innovation is one of...
Feedback versus Gossip
Feedback is the light side of gossip. Intra-personal feedback is a natural phenomenon. It is the human system responding to information from the environment, for example if you get cold you shiver. Likewise, inter-personal feedback works best when it mimics a natural...
Participate Fully versus Compromise
Participate fully is the light side of compromise. Participate fully means just what it says; all team members are clear about doing what they enjoy and enjoying what they are doing. They are getting the joy that they want from their work through willingly...
Willingness versus Withdrawl
Willingness is the light side of withdrawal. If you are willing, you will check into your energy and choose a clear yes or a clear no. Then direction and movement become possible. People who simply withdraw do not give a clear yes or no, a stalemate position,...
Recreation versus Spoil The Game
Recreation is the light side of Spoiling the Game. Recreation and having fun creates a desire to participate with fluidity. Spoiling the game comes from a sense of inadequacy and fear. It creates resistance and stifles team performance. Leave all the afternoon for...
