Enlist the Hidden Figures characters introduced this week in our discussion

Enlist the Hidden Figures characters introduced this week in our discussion. Drawing upon our sources investigate how these individuals move NASA into a new consciousness. Collaboratively:

• Explore how your selected characters collectively disrupt former mental models through attending, suspending, and sensing this new consciousness; how NASA confronts uncertainty and ambiguity; how it learns to unwrap its “triggers, assumptions, and aversions”.
• How do you see NASA, an organization, sense and present a new organizational identity?
• How does it acquire a deeper collective-awareness and identity?
• What lessons are learned from this presentation?
• For the assignment, with your group, we will turn our attention from ourselves and individuals within an organization to the broader organization and eco-system. Through the same inquiry process we used during the week’s discussion, we will explore how NASA itself constructs an identity--as an organization and as a part of an eco-system. We will see how “mapping deep territories and sensing” can occur at the individual and the organizational level.
  • Using Silsbee and Scharmer as guides, what can you learn about the identities and presences of individuals and organizations?
  • If we are indeed an eco-system, composed of eco-structural leaders, how can we unpack this knowledge and influence the emergence of a collective and connected identity?