A sentient person is one who has sense perception. Unless you are in total isolation, wherever you go, sentient beings are there, and sentient beings experience things the same way you do, give or take a personal history.
Leadership implies that someone is being led. In the context of an organization, these are people--beings of sentience--who are participating. To truly lead is to relate to and respect people who are able to feel or perceive things.
Every individual within an organization is a person with consciousness and memory: favorite colors, foods and childhood smells; first loves and heartbreaks; parents and grandparents; ambitions and fears; known and unknown capabilities. If an organization wishes to get the greatest contributions from its individuals, it must not only respect their individuality but appreciate their sentience. Interwoven sentience is the path of innovation, creativity and sustainability for the organization.
EVERYTHING CONNECTS, by Faisal Hoque with Drake Baer, is a kaleidoscopic view of the way humans--by being able to think outside the box--have been able to achieve greatness for themselves, their companies and the world at large. Value creation, says Hoque, is "a continuous conversation between inside and outside. As individuals and as organizations, we need to devotedly cultivate resources in ourselves."
Leonardo da Vinci, the great Renaissance artist, engineer and scientist, is the prototype we as individuals and as entrepreneurs should emulate; a platform that he developed within himself and would continue to develop within a range of directions throughout his life. While he was profoundly fascinated with the outside world, da Vinci also dwelt deeply within the environment of his own mental life; from these ponderings sprang the deep interconnectedness that informed all his work.
"Making connections between disparate things is a key to creative thinking, so seeing these relationships is one of the keys to catalyzation," say Hoque. "And when we recognize the constellation of relationships within a group, we can begin to understand their shared alignment, a process that can be described as convergence."
Source: Faisal Hoque: Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability