Muddling Through

[Funda Oral]

As I think....

Muddling Through is the art of " adapting oneself to and getting alone with
the life"

This also includes responding the needs of management  ::)) your mother or
your father  etc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "BJ Peters" <bjp1 at cox.net>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 12:51 AM
Subject: Re: Muddling Through


> 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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