4.0 Stage of Development (Pluralist) Up-shift from 2.0 Rule Oriented.

Leaders experiencing this stage tend to have these gifts

• It's about a subtle "we".
• Experience subtle both/and mindset so encourages reciprocity.
• Foreground collective collaboration and inclusiveness, yet allows independence.
• Learns from others, and develops self, and others
• Engage those they lead non-hierarchically: Not a "boss"
• See others potential, so they challenge and motivate those they work with
• Visionary, and can see many perspectives, but doesn't prioritize them
• Sees how self and others are shaped by their contexts, and thus all ideas and knowledge is relative.
• Can give feedback and empower others.
• Tend to support emotional development
• Experience a time frame that includes parent and children's lifetime; 10+ years forward and back, yet oriented to the "now."
• Embraces all sentient life. Context awareness may lead you to protect environment.
• Aware of assumptions, interpretations, ambiguity, paradoxes, judgments, intuitions, internal voices, subtle energies, which may take on a life of their own.
• Work with complex adaptive systems non-hierarchically
• Values diversity of viewpoint.
• Welcome feedback as necessary for self-knowledge and to uncover aspects of their subtle self which others can see and share.
• Seek to discover and be their authentic self: challenge assumptions, expectations, and societal conventions.
• Aware

Leaders experiencing this stage tend to have these challenges

• Can't easily prioritize contexts
• Process is foregrounded over goal orientation
• Gets mired down in decision making. Everyone gets a voice
• Excessive meetings
• Everyone is equal so may have trouble with assessing accountability.
• Overly permissive

Pluralist Tools: Non-Violent Communication; Appreciative Inquiry; Dialogue; collaboration.