Leaders for Humanity

Leaders for Humanity with Bill Torbert: The Powerful Art of Action Inquiry

Apr 3, 2022
Bill Torbert, a Professor emeritus known for his frameworks on Action Inquiry, explores profound themes of leadership and transformation. He emphasizes the art of self-reflection and interdependence as vital for growth. Torbert discusses the rarity of advanced action logics, the importance of play in development, and the value of communities in fostering principled action. He challenges conventional practices like performance reviews and advocates for continual feedback and ethical action, highlighting how finite life heightens our sense of purpose.
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ANECDOTE

Upward Bound Began His Inquiry

  • At 22 Bill directed Upward Bound, creating an early organizational challenge that shaped his theory.
  • That experience catalyzed his work on organizational transformation.
INSIGHT

Fourfold Ontology Of Effective Action

  • Bill Torbert proposes a fourfold ontology: empirical world, thought, embodied experience, and external results.
  • Growth requires aligning purpose, strategy, embodiment, and outcomes through development of awareness.
INSIGHT

Loops: Action, Strategy, Purpose

  • Single, double and triple-loop feedback map to action, strategy, and purpose respectively.
  • Triple-loop questions your deepest commitments and whether actions match purpose.
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