Muddling Through

[BJ Peters]

Jack-- I would only add what to me is so significant - leadership is an
inner journey that is able to let go of ego first, and then outer
directed in addition to the inner focus. Be Peace --BJ

BJ Peters
bjp1 at cox.net
602.279.4805

"The path of violence moves - sharp, sharper, sharpest, while the path
of nonviolence moves - gently, gentlier, gentliest."
-- Dwarko Sundrani, last active disciple of Mahatma Gandhi

On Friday, November 5, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Jack Ricchiuto wrote:

> Love the discussion on management. These are from a recent publication.
>
> The intent of leadership is to inspire passion, identify
> opportunities, and engage strengths for change, creativity, and
> innovation. Leadership is key to any community's ability to use its
> capabilities adaptively in new ways. Leadership unleashes new dreams,
> dreams that go beyond what we've so far imagined possible. Leadership
> inspires people to dream beyond what they’ve ever thought possible.
>
> The role of leader is to dream the impossible and inspire the
> improbable.
>
> Management is the opposite intention - to maintain predictability
> through the administration of compliance.Management is the
> administration of compliance to policies and procedures. It is focused
> on making the trains run on time. When we want the consistency of no
> negative surprises, management is a tool to make that happen. It is
> the tool of the formal organization to maintain predictability.
>
> Leadership is about inspiring and engaging adaptive variation, change,
> and creativity beyond what has already been accomplished through
> managed compliance. Leadership is the domain of everything in the
> organization that cannot be predicted or controlled. It's designed to
> handle things that happen unplanned. Leadership's prime value is in
> situations outside the box of prescribed behaviors in the organization
> - in the white spaces on the organization chart where things happen
> unplanned.
>
> The prime tools of management are instructions; the prime tools of
> leadership are conversations. The purpose of leadership is to create
> conversations with an intention to create new ways of combining
> capabilities for new levels of performance.
>
> peace...
>
> jack
>
> _/\_
> jack ricchiuto
> www.designinglife.com
> two.one.six.three.seven.three.seven.four.seven.five

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