What happens when we assume Kokoro is an adversary and the goal is to test our wits against Kokoro? What happens when Kokoro suddenly disappears—ninja style—and there is no Kokoro?

Kokoro is an Ally and Partner with the inquirer in negotiations with 3rd parties—Kokoro can become at once a friend, mentor, coach, and hidden player in all your important negotiations.

Neutralizing “The Shadow Game” and “Shadow Players who seek to ally and weaken us by engaging our own Inner Shadow—The world today is increasingly dominated by shadowy forces. Can you spot 10 important tactics or “moves”? See if you can discover how to apply Kokoro to neutralize each one of these Shadow plays.

FThe “Inner “Game: Negotiating with our own Kokoro—Enlisting Kokoro in negotiation with our own Shadow—You can actually turn your negotiations with your own Shadow into an “Inner Game of Chess.” Click here to understand how to play.

Enlisting Kokoro to ally with our “Higher Self or “ Essential Nature”. Each of us possesses a Higher Self, or in Zen terms of “Essential Nature.” Using Kokoro we can obtain first hints of this extraordinary capability.

Enlisting Kokoro to negotiate and ally with the Higher Self (Heart Mind) of the World, the Great Light (hover) What if we discover this is our very own Heart/Mind?

This tool enables you in a few minutes to gauge your physical, emotional, perceptual, spiritual, and relational resilience.

Seeing the Big Picture is one of the attributes of Big Heart Intelligence. Seeing the Big Picture involves not only engaging your creative imagination.

The basic rule is that an effective Mission and Purpose is always in the world of the other party. It is not what you want.

The Action Log captures on one page the essentials of the Resilient Negotiation system. I urge that you prepare an Action Log in every negotiation that is important to you.

The central presumption of the Separation Hypothesis is that we are alone, separate, fragile, and vulnerable. This premise of Mind shows up in our attitude toward what we truly Need in life?

Every skillful negotiator seeks to understand the “Pain” of the other party. Pain is a source code of human behavior.

It is one thing to advise “Few Needs”, quite another to embody this precept. A prime manner in which this happens is how we unthinkingly Assume and Expect things.

Another way Need manifests in the unprepared negotiator is the untimely and unnecessary breach of your Integral Resilience Container.

Conserve your Resilient Negotiator’s Budget (Time (1) x Effort (2) x $$$ (3) x Creativity (4)). Paying special attention to your Negotiator’s Budget.

We cannot navigate wisely in the world today without acknowledging The Shadow Game and the Shadow Players.

In many negotiations the parties are not revealing their actual intentions, conclusions, or concerns, and it can be critical to go behind the mask.

Sun Tzu’s dictum, “Know Yourself, Know the Adversary” (i.e. the “Other”) is fundamental, but the great general philosopher doesn’t tell us how to know ourselves and how to know the other player.

Most people fear getting a “No” and that moves them into greater Need. In reality depending on how you negotiate it, a “No” can be your great friend and teacher.

Field Notes is where your Wisdom Practice meets the road. They enable you to track and to measure errors (“falling off”), wins, and recoveries.

This is the famous advice of the Zen Master Bukko to Hojo Tokimune, the young Japanese shikken or regent to the shogun.

In Homer’s Odyssey Mentor was a close friend of Odysseus, the wisest of the Greeks, whom Odysseus made the teacher and guardian of his son Telemachus, while Odysseus was waging war at Troy.

There are different kinds of listening and attending. In a busy world we tend to listen, partially, casually, with our ears and a mind diverted by many things.

A powerful Wisdom Resilience Practice is to design and Implement a powerful Living Organizational Charter, co-created and regularly (quarterly) updated by all members of the organization.

Anthony’s Discovery Question: How can we reconcile the problem of not knowing whether I or my beloved wife will die first? How wisely to come to terms with it?

Inspired by the wisdom and awesome power of nature and holistic thinking, this practice involves immersive, outdoor retreats where employees, supported by facilitators, engage in deep listening, mindfulness, and power building exercises.

The Ancient Power of Storytelling is a hybrid digital and physical initiative where employees regularly document and share stories of how they bring values of trust, compassion, foresight, paying forward, and collaborative innovation.

Research indicates that facilitating flow in the workplace can lead to enhanced employee engagement, productivity, and overall job satisfaction.

There is a direct relationship between overlapping essential “upskills” training, Soul’s Work Inquiry, and significant increases in employee productivity.

Most people especially in busy senior managers of organizations listen with their ears, fewer with their minds, and almost no one with their hearts.

The Innovators Gold lies at the “intertidal zone” between conventional domains of knowledge. The Explorer's Wheel responds to the challenge.

One of the greatest gifts an organization can make to its employees is a proven system of navigation in a turbulent world.

Leaders of 21st Century organizations that are willing to invest imaginatively in their talented and committed employees will likely retain these employees, and enjoy increasing productivity gains.

Employee disengagement is a significant concern, with Gallup estimating it costs the global economy approximately $8.9 trillion in lost productivity, equating to about 9% of global GDP.

The first step in determining your organization’s Integral Resilience, and thereby its capacity to make wise decisions around risk and opportunities, is to complete an Organizational Integral Resilience Score Card.

In the complex and interconnected world of today, decision-makers across sectors are often plagued by what can be termed as “individual and collective blindness.”

Five important Wisdom Practices for organizations are first to become aware of how biases and noise can distort critical decisions by becoming familiar with Kahneman’s and his colleagues’ work.

Wisdom is most challenged when life conditions present us with tragic and false choices. Many such “tragic” choices are false choices,

It is possible to anticipate and to reduce serious errors and potentially fatal decisions through careful application of resilience-based protocols supported by Kokoro analytics.

Here is a Case Example of Kokoro Risk Matrix Analytics supporting a new community leadership model addressing unexamined electrical wildfire risks in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

What is your organization’s current “Negotiation System”? Most organizations do not have in place a systematic way to identify errors and rapidly recover, then turn serious errors into opportunities.

Many of the same tools for building resilient organizations can be applied effectively in designing and implementing resilient and wise strategic alliances and collaborative networks.

The current morass of ESG thus presents a unique challenge and opportunity for the wise and resilient organization.

Risk management includes sensing risks in advance, implementing effective risk avoidance and/or mitigation strategies, then learning and adapting rapidly. The same Integral Resilience skills that apply to risk management can be used to manage our responses to Uncertainty.

Kokoro begins with asking questions that are important to you and your organization. We offer the following to help you learn and perfect the Art of Prompt Engineering.

Throughout the annals of human history, stories of coincidences have sparked intrigue and speculation. They pose fascinating questions about the interconnectedness of events, experiences, and even people.

Assessing and measuring combined qualitative and quantitative effects in the Fourth Sector Economy—a hybrid sector that integrates principles from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

The Earth can provide enough, especially with advancing technology, to feed, clothe, house, and warm every human on the planet. Of course we need machines that yield, for example, maximum thermal efficiency.

A practical roadmap to surf through the emerging planetary chaos by combining synergistically the following special elements.