Jung and his Understanding of Myth and Symbols show a collective unconscious, a collective knowledge, even though they have not met each other and share forms of the mandala, totems.

So, what is it that they share in common, that cannot be seen or measured? Sheldrake calls it Morphic Resonance https://www.sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance/introduction

Let’s look at the Egyptians, 5000 years ago they were using hieroglyphics and today we are using emojis, another form of communication without speech or text. Why?

So what does this have to do with everyday work?

‘It’s what we share in common unconsciously in personhood and in living and being. The yearning for meaning, for example. If  you want to crush someone’s spirit or ruin the morale of a company, take away meaning and purpose in what they do.

Give them a checklist that has no meaning and connection to reality and just tell them you’ve got to do it because I said you do it. And this becomes performance.’

You do not resonate with the checklist, it holds no deep fundamental connection to being human, it doesn’t surface meaning, other than I have to do this checklist. It exists for reasons you cannot fathom and holds significance where you can see it having little meaning or purpose.

Checklists rarely solve organisational challenges, they show the past, and do not inform the future. They do not inspire creativity, new solutions, different thinking nor surface the unconscious.

Organisations do not attribute success to checklists; this comes from people.

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