Leadership and Power

[Funda Oral]

I couldn't read the other messages but I wanted to share what came to my
mind when I read this

Leadership and Power is a stupid dream created collaborately by those

* who are too lazy to think to create a life for themselves or who are not
given enough space or opportunity to do so
and
* who are so blind or so fascinated by power and by the need to be
appreciated and applauded that they believe they must create a life
a destiny for others.

or in another way of saying;

* those who think they know better and are more powerfull
and
* the others who think they don't know, they aren't good enough, powerfull
enough etc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harrison Owen" <hhowen at comcast.net>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: Leadership and Power


> John asked:
>
> what do you see as the relationship between Leadership and Power?
>
> I suppose that depends on what you mean by "leadership" and "power." One
of
> things that I have learned in Open Space is that Leadership appears at the
> crossroads of passion and responsibility. Or putting it another way, the
> leader is one who claims his passion with responsibility. By doing so, he
or
> she opens some space for something new to appear. There is no guarantee
that
> the new will make an appearance, or that if it does, it will be useful,
but
> the potential is there. When the space is open and the new (plan, action,
> program, idea) stikes a resonant chord with those who share the passion in
a
> responsible way -- things begin to move. Or -- we might say, power begins
to
> flow. Power, from where I sit, is quite simply the motive force which
> energizes life. I guess that is a tautology, but it is as good as I can
do.
> Point is nobody owns it, and for sure nobody can really control it. Under
> the best of circumstances, we can only open some space in which power may
> flow. We might even channel it a bit, but that is about all.
>
> A major point is that the Leader certainly doesn't own it (power). For
power
> is always the collective juices entering an an attractive open space to
get
> some job done, thought thought, plan made. Looking at power and leadership
> in the terms I have suggested makes it crystal clear that Leadership is
not
> (nor has it ever been) position, titual, a matter of confered status.
> Leadership is an action which all of us can, do, and must take. So to
speak
> of The Leadership, or The Leader as a predetermined reality is idiocy. For
> sure, those designated (falsely I think) as Leaders can lead, and
hopefully
> they do. But they have no corner on the market, and waiting for them to
lead
> (or blaming them when they don't) is a simple abdication of our right and
> responsibility -- to lead.
>
> Harrison
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of john
engle
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:59 AM
> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
> Subject: Leadership and Power
>
> hi friends.
>
> my colleagues and i are working on our next newsletter for beyond borders,
> an organization i'm affiliated with. the theme is going to be Leadership
and
> Power and i've just posted on my blog a half a dozen great quotes that my
> haitian colleagues put on our OS list serve in haitian creole.
>
> if you want to take a look, go to http://johnengle.blogspot.com (same as
> below).
>
> if you want to receive Beyond Borders' ezines, sign up on home page at:
> http://beyondborders.net.
>
> what do you see as the relationship between Leadership and Power?
>
> peace,
>
> john
>
> http://JohnEngle.blogspot.com - Reflections about Haiti, life, and our
work.
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