Peak evolution science offers a breakthrough new approach to achieving the most evolved states known to mankind. It is a means to have right now the advanced functionality of the future human which will not be prevalent for generations. Peak Evolution serves as an explanation and beacon for people who have spontaneously begun to evolve ahead of the general population, and a roadmap for those who wish to proactively speed evolution.
Peak Evolution is a how-to book for evolving beyond your current potential by harnessing natural evolutionary forces attempting to ensure the survival and peak performance of all systems. The multitude of systems inside of our bodies or outside of us in a biological ecosystem, for example, are both kept in balance by these natural evolutionary forces. It is therefore only logical to deduce that those same evolutionary forces are also acting upon us directly. Our cultures have simply interfered with our ability to comply with and capitalize on these forces.
Peak Evolution identifies ten signals of those powerful evolutionary forces operating in your life so you can harness that flow to function and achieve goals beyond your potential. Your capabilities are extended by the knowledge, intelligence, mechanisms, processes, and creativity of nature. When you align your internal drives with nature's drives, you cannot help but shift into overdrive. You are perpetually pulled beyond your previous potential into a state of accelerating evolution or 'peak evolution'. This is how ordinary people have been capable of extraordinary achievements.
Only about 5-10% of the world population have begun to evolve to the advanced functionality predicted in Peak Evolution. They are undoubtedly a subset of the new, growing 'market' identified by Ray and Anderson in their book, The Cultural Creatives (Harmony, 2000). Peak Evolution has become the means for individuals evolving the new functionality to find each other and gather as a growing global community at Naturality.Net where they can support each other through co-evolution.
Lauren Holmes is a career and corporate strategist who generates competitive advantage and peak performance by synergistically aligning career and company co-evolution. She does this for individuals, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, executive teams, CEOs, and companies. Lauren heads Co-Evolve.com , Frontiering.com and Naturality.Net
Lauren Holmes - Leadering's creator, developer, and proponent THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LEADERING PARADIGM SHIFT PROGRAM
A Childhood Vision Leadering™ began as a vision for the future of humanity which Lauren Holmes formulated for a high school project.
Experimenting with Leadership Lauren developed her expertise for organizational and industry change leadership as a top-rated employee in some of the world's largest multinationals (IBM and global financial institutions).
Mid-1980s to Early 1990s: Learning from Top Global Change Leaders To broaden her knowledge of leadership and industry and organizational change, Lauren headed an executive search firm dedicated exclusively to the recruitment of change leaders at the board, CEO, and senior executive levels. Lauren interviewed hundreds of top leaders from major global companies, both for requisitioned searches and in partnership with the large relocation counseling firms dealing with the massive release of executives during the recession of the early 90s.
1990-1993: Formulating the first iteration of Leadering™ Back-to-back interviews with so many executives enabled Lauren to realize that leaders are not operating the way most leadership development theories have specified. As an evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist trained in objective observation, Lauren came to understand leadership differently. She then found science to confirm her observations in such fields as quantum physics, chaos theory, catastrophe theory, the biological sciences, systems biology, systems theory, emergence theory, and evolutionary theory. These are the scientific foundations underpinning Leadering which are transparent to practitioners. No scientific discoveries to date disprove Leadering. In fact, Leadering identifies plausible directions in which many scientific fields will eventually advance and how to speed that advance.
With the dearth of jobs due to fear-driven downsizing rather than smart frontiering™ and creation, so much excellent talent was discarded by society. Sadly, the leaders and change facilitators who could have rescued so many were the first to go. Both societal and individual systems were traumatized. Leadering's mission was born. With new ways of operating, new functionality, and especially with frontiering™ capability, individual and societal systems could adapt, advance, co-create, synergize, and co-evolve more quickly to avoid damage and suffering. If successful, a maximized individual working within his/her field of fascination to achieve peak legacy - one's greatest contribution to society - could become an achievable new human right. It would also be the smartest strategy for maximizing global human resources in the service of the world we all share.
1990-2006: Advancing the Leadering™ technology, toolkit, products, services: Many different corporate identities were required to test out every element of the integrated Leadering paradigm as it stands today at Leadering.com (education) and Frontiering.com (legacy implementation). Action-learning experimentation conforming to scientific method was used.
1990-1991: First Action-Learning Experimentation: Frontiering™ The first test of the foundational multi-system elements of Leadering™ related to its methodology for enabling the penetration of new territory safely and expeditiously - the underpinning system of meta-competencies and drives shared by adept leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, or high achievers. This test was achieved by establishing an unprecedented global recycled plastics distribution company for which Lauren Holmes had no credentials or background. Frontiering™ would therefore be required. As the company became successful and globally known within that community, the frontiering™ experiment was terminated. Leadering had passed its first test.
1991-1995: Business Professionals: ONE-ON-ONE After the first experiment, Lauren determined it would be faster to support others in their application of Leadering to their own goals than for her to continue to set up her own experiments. Rather than risk her connections and standing in the corporate world, Lauren found safe testing grounds managing the careers of business professionals. She used Leadering™ techniques to identify the right client at the right time for each aspect of Leadering™ to be tested.
1995-2003: Corporate Executives: ONE-ON-ONE Leadering services were applied to the careers of corporate executives locally and then internationally through the corporate identities of Teamlink Canada and TeamLink International.
Experimentation was predominantly with executives of multinationals because they usually had well-developed cognitive skills and other capabilities allowing Lauren to experiment at the upper end of the meta-competencies that Leadering is designed to instill in practitioners. Multi-national clients included: Royal Bank, AT&T, IBM, RIM, Bell, BBDO, Young & Rubicam, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Bank of Montreal. Experimentation also included creating concentrations of individuals using Leadering in order to learn about the Leadering culture of an organization operating in the Leadering paradigm.
2001 to 2005: Non-Corporate Individuals en masse: ONE-ON-MANY Lauren needed a safe territory outside of corporations to test out a number of aspects of Leadering and Leadering distribution. Accordingly, she wrote a book entitled Peak Evolution, Beyond Peak Performance and Peak Experience (2001) around which a global community could form. Peak Evolution presents the 1992 iteration of Leadering in non-corporate terms that would not be intimidating to the general public. Naturality.Net, LLC was the corporate identity used to create this community and it was advertised in the book. There were 4000 people on the global mailing list within the first 4 months and it was an Amazon.com bestseller.
Areas examined through the Naturality.Net community included: * to develop/test the means to impact more people more quickly with Leadering methodologies and technologies. * to develop/test one-to-many techniques where, unlike in corporations, participants were strangers * to develop/test ways in which Leadering could impact larger groups of individuals to enable it to be used as a tool for leaders and achievers to maximize and advance organizations to achieve goals. * to test Leadering-based group processes on many fronts * to determine how to press natural levers to trigger group change in the way done to this point for individuals * to experiment with community tools such as chat rooms, discussion and bulletin boards, and other group communication and work tools. * to experiment with using Leadering for community-building inside and outside of corporations * to market-test Leadering * to determine what the competing technologies, theories, and cultural norms were in the market place and how they caused confusion for understanding Leadering, * to find ways to circumvent market-related issues: competing technologies, theories, modes of operation, cultural norms, and existing infrastructures. The goal was to ensure that Leadering did not conflict with culture, religion, science, and society so that everyone could operate in the Leadering paradigm. * to test new mass delivery mechanisms: teleclinics, telecalls, weekly and periodic programs, audios, videos, support systems and the best structures for achieving and operationalizing the Leadering paradigm shift. These were international to * determine the effects of cultural differences * to develop Lauren's own expertise in a number of areas: the speed and magnitude of group or community transformation, working with non-executives to complement her career-long focus on executives, creating and sustaining a global community, the application of Leadering technology to group programs and processes, and the ability to transform groups en masse with Leadering without the opportunity to use the personal goals and events of each individual's life she had had access to in her Leadering work to this point. * to develop the exercises and techniques that could personalize the Leadering paradigm and paradigm shift to each person to empower the generic paradigm shift offered in the audio program (re last item in previous point) * to test whether the Leadering paradigm shift could better be accomplished through audios and visuals. Lauren experimented with audio recordings as the means to raise people's frequencies and thus the breadth of information and the amount of interconnectedness they are able to perceive and assimilate. Expanded consciousness is key to Leadering's ability to raise functionality * to create/develop various programs to experiment with how each of the meta-competencies shared by leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, and top performers could best be instilled. * to experiment with harnessing the co-evolution of human systems for peak legacy, a key function of leaders and achievers who want to extend their capabilities with those of other systems to achieve beyond their potential.
2002-2007 Corporate Individuals and Groups ONE-ON-ONE and ONE-ON-MANY programs Organizational Development Services What was learned about Leadering at Naturality.net, LLC was taken back to the corporate world through Lauren's next corporate identities: Frontiering Leadership Group and ReCareering™. This corporate-based experimentation identified the need for the Leadering paradigm shift audio program now offered. Natural leaders feel that the Leadering paradigm perfectly defines how they operate. Therefore, many of them requested a tool which allows them to quickly upgrade their organizations to operate as they do. Putting all key people through the Leadering paradigm shift program accomplished this.
2005-2007 Leadering audio program development
2007 Leadering audio program release to individual executive clients In 2007, the audio-based Leadering™ Paradigm Shift Program replaced Peak Evolution. The initial target market was individual corporate executives.
2008-2009 6-week subscriptions to Leadering sold to the public and corporations through Leadering.com Peak Evolution was temporarily taken out of print to facilitate the transition and minimize confusion since Leadering has no overlap with the approach used in Peak Evolution even though their paradigms are consistent. However, a second edition and eBook version will be re-released in 2010. The experimentation with Leadering™ continued, especially with an eye to what kind of support people, services and products would be required for a public rollout globally.
2010 Leadering program sold to the public through Amazon.com Educational support for those trying to master Leadering will still be offered through Leadering.com. Support services include * identifying client strategies for peak legacy and peak growth * promoting the re-centering of the individual to the strength of their natural core * facilitating the paradigm shift and providing support for the Leadering exercises * integrating the paradigm shift into the life of the organization or individual * empowering sustained operation and accelerated growth within the paradigm, and * promoting action-learning experimentation associated with the paradigm shift and ongoing operation.
At Frontiering.com, a diversity of Leadering service providers supports those wanting to apply Leadering. Leadering™ is used to design, launch, and accelerate companies, philanthropic organizations, fields of study or invention, and careers customized to an individual's or company's peak legacy, their peak contribution to advancing the world. The foundations are provided for clients to use Leadering to break through new frontiers in precisely the territory that fascinates them and to be rewarded for it. Alternatively, we can support you in launching your own structure(s) through which to achieve your peak legacy.
Leadering is now positioned to address its mission for creating value, meaning, and progress - maximizing the lives of individuals while maximizing their contribution to advancing our world.
This review is from: Peak Evolution: Beyond Peak Performance and Peak Experience (Paperback)
Great Book! Themes: Growth and change place us in the Unknown. And in the "Unknown" we must 'pathfind'. How do we 'pathfind'? We use our inner-guidance system; as energetic, vibrational beings we have a resonance or frequency. Lauren Holmes teaches us to use it as a guiding force. Seek work or a career at your frequency and you may find yourself in "flow state"; a state of altered consciousness where we can have 'spontaneous knowledge', 'quantum leaps' in change. I love this book! Throw out the detailed plans! Lauren Holmes suggests plans are okay, they have their place, but think about it, how many plans do go awry? Nature moves in non-linear ways; and since we are part of nature we also can access this intelligence which is within us and outside of us. Then watch out for the cluster of coincidences and synchronistic events that come your way, as we are "pulled" along by forces that support and lead us toward our highest fulfillment. An intricate exploration of "follow your bliss" (Joseph Campbell). It's a little complex at first, because it is well done. She even gives free teleclasses each week, so readers can discuss and ask questions. Great stuff! Gotta go...I am feeling a tug to do something else at this moment, and I trust it!
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A 'scientific theory' is a conceptual framework which explains existing observations and predicts new ones. Peak Evolution theorizes a new conceptual framework which explains and makes predictable and 'harnessable' the natural evolutionary and optimizing forces which act on each of us and indeed all systems.
A 'hypothesis' is a working assumption. Peak Evolution provides readers with a series of hypotheses to experiment with in their own lives to (1) understand and prove to themselves how natural evolutionary forces are acting on their personal system, (2) predict how these forces will behave in their lives in the future, and (3) suggest ways in which they can harness that predictability.
Learning to comply with, capitalize on, and 'drive' natural evolutionary forces is similar to learning to drive a car. Where it differs is that driving evolutionary forces actually advances the base-line functionality of one's personal system so that it doesn't just 'grow' with new knowledge and skills as in learning to drive but actually 'evolves' beyond its previous potential.
No one is going to change your mind about how you and your reality operate except by proving it in your own life. Peak Evolution gives you the means to get that proof. It is a how-to book after the introductory 3 chapters. Every hypothesis of the peak evolution theory is testable and self-provable.
When a theory is said to be 'true', it means that it agrees with all known experimental evidence. Peak evolution theory explains and predicts a lot of phenomena. However, this book is only the first pass at what might ultimately become a new science. New experiments or more precise ones probing the workings and practical application of natural evolutionary forces will refine it over time.
At Frontiering.com, we have been using the peak evolution 'science' for a number of years to take executives and their companies to peak performance. This is a tough, intelligent, audience which would never risk using anything less than a provable, predictable, replicable, conceptual framework. So far, no one has been able to disprove Peak Evolution.
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This book contains some interesting information, but is mostly a hodgepodge of insight nuggets from new age philosophy, popular quantum physics and as another reviewer mentioned, Joseph Campbell.
"Peak Evolution" is highly repetitive and could have been edited to half the length. The logical connections to reference material are loose, and the rational foundation even moreso. Droning references to author-coined phrases hammer down the concepts, but get tiresome.
Despite the annoyances, there was something to like about this book. Maybe it was the brazen style of the author, with shoot-from-the-hip references to "The Holographic Universe," that give you a prescription for maximizing your potential as a human being.
If you are ready to open your mind WAY up and take a magic carpet ride through your omnipotence as a reality creator, go for it, but be prepared to wade through 300 pages of wordiness and some unscholarly conjecture. This author has some creative ideas and brings together some interesting scientific and philosophical principles, but she just doesn't make it gel: pretty much a pseudo-scientific new age guru for agnostic fat-cats in search of a soul. At least that's my take.
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