Plan And Execute Vs Search And Amplify
Last Saturday I had an interesting conversation with an old friend, who asked me the difference between plan-and-execute versus search-and-amplify. It felt like a great question to deep-dive into and landed up on a few interesting insights.
On the surface, those approaches look similar. But, in practice, search-and-amplify (SA) lens offers us something subtle -- intelligence of the whole. The fundamental difference is that the plan-and-execute (PE) approach is driven by the human mind, whereas the SA approach requires us to transcend the mind and be in the field of the unknown for goodness to emerge.
PE strategy is an outcome-oriented approach, where we are fixated on the desired end goal. It is implicitly biased towards a hierarchy of people, ideology or a belief system and that has a momentum of its own.
In PE modality, you do X to reach Y, but in SA mode, you do X to do X. The means and the ends are the same, or in other words, means are the end. Because there is no desire for any outcome nor a preference for a particular direction, it roots the whole process in emergence. That affords us intelligence of the whole.
Vimala Thakar speaks of 2 kinds of movements. One is a travel from point A to point B, and another is vibrational shift, without a predetermined direction. Both are movements but have vastly different implications.
I would love to hear different perspectives and uncover any blind spots I might have. Any thoughts? Am I missing something?
Posted by Parag Shah on Feb 27, 2017
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5 Past Reflections
On Feb 28, 2017 Meghna Banker wrote:
"when you are in an Impact mode, you are constantly in the manufacture mindset. But when you do gardening, there is an emergence.
When you create a field of 'network' then emerges 'reliability' which brings 'responsibility'. The change that we then seek is truly inner driven an long lasting :)"
@Nipun Bhai: This question "how do we prepare ourselves to head towards an unknown destination?" could totally have a longer blog through your reflections.
On Mar 1, 2017 Sheetal Sanghvi wrote:
On Apr 16, 2018 Rajalakshmi wrote:
On Apr 19, 2018 Nikita wrote:
Some of the sharing during our call also had me thinking about how as ignorant beings, we do often have a desire for a specific outcome or some direction of travel, but how open we are to gladly accept the outcomes if they are not the one's we desire, is probably a reflection of how open we are to emergence.
What is seemingly 'emergence', is just a larger plan playing out, right? But it is perhaps our mode and the quality of our holding that allows us to accept/embrace at a personal level.
From the perspective of a collective, I loved the elaboration that - 'PE approach is driven by the human mind, whereas the SA approach requires us to transcend the mind and be in the field of the unknown for goodness to emerge.'
On Feb 28, 2017 Nipun Mehta wrote:
Additionally, when pace of change is furiously fast, PE doesn't work. All tech companies born in the last decade or so, like Google, understand this (at the level of phenomena). That's why they give employees 20% time to do "whatever". Mystics and saints also choose SA approach, because they would say that pace of change (within us) has always been so rapid that's foolish to attempt to plan and execute in that context.[Hide Full Comment]
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