The end of leadership

[Funda Oral]

the searching and praying for leaders should end simultaneously for 
leadership to end.
funda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yoav Peck" <yoavpeck at netvision.net.il>
To: <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: The end of leadership


> Romy,
> Appreciate your response. Thanks much. Good to know that folks out there
> care about Israel. Yoav
>
> Yoav
>
> Thank you for your inspiration...
>
> And I guess it takes all of us to reminding ourselves (and others) that 
> all
> this is possible. Indeed I deeply believe that is is only when 'the 
> people'
> (= us too of course) genuinely feel that is their choice, their will, 
> their
> action that creates the world we (individually and collectively want)....
> that we will achieve our dream(s).
>
> Thank you for your practical and profound example from a dear land that so
> many people love.
>
> Romy
>
>> From: Yoav Peck <yoavpeck at netvision.net.il>
>> Reply-To: OSLIST <OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU>
>> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:55:07 +0200
>> To: OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
>> Subject: The end of leadership
>>
>>
>> Today the Israeli Knesset (parliament) convened for its winter session.
>> Yesterday, the police recommended indicting our president for a 
>> collection
>> of offenses, the most serious of which is the rape of two women in his
>> employ.
>> Many legislators announced their intention to protest the president's
>> appearance at today's session and he wisely bowed to the pressure and did
>> not attend.
>> Why am I sharing this with you on the OS list?
>> As I facilitated my first OS last month, I noticed a recurrent theme 
>> among
>> the different groups - the longing for "someone who will be crazy about
> our
>> issue" to appear and assume leadership in the efforts to fulfill the
> vision
>> that crystallized in response to the day's question: the formation of a
>> national council for parents and parenting professionals.
>> What did not come home to the group of 60 people, mostly professionals 
>> who
>> run parent-training programs, is that the "crazy-about-the-issue someone"
> is
>> none other than they themselves. I low-profiled as much as I could,
>> empowered, returned questioners to themselves. I left the room some. But
> the
>> group seemed to be waiting and praying for the someone who will save us,
>> during most of the course of the day. It appears that only after meeting
>> with the steering committee and then holding round two of the OS will
> people
>> be likely to get that the person sitting in their seat is "the one."
>>
>> At any rate, the profundity of OS' message came home to me during that
> first
>> day. The fantasy that one driven, inspired leader will rescue us all from
>> our helplessness is a chorus that can frequently be heard when people
>> discuss the overall situation here in Israel.
>> In my view, the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin marked the end of 
>> this
>> fantasy here. Indeed, Rabin had qualities and qualifications that enabled
> so
>> many of us to follow him. But, as in OS, the leader's "strength" was our
>> downfall, because in the shine of his leadership our own light dimmed. 
>> The
>> lion's share of peacemaking work remained even as he lived, but we 
>> deluded
>> ourselves that he would carry us through to the promised land. Since his
>> death, no comparable leader has emerged, and many here bemoan this
> reality.
>> However, now that I have caught the OS "bug" I am wondering if Rabin's
>> death, tragic as it was, may not be our cue to understanding that it is 
>> we
>> who must create whatever is to be created here. It has been nearly eleven
>> years, but with people's growing distaste for our "leaders," it appears
> that
>> we Israelis may finally be getting the hint.
>> Even Moses stayed behind, to die on Mt. Nevo while the people crossed 
>> over
>> into Israel. It remains now for us to shoulder the burden of making the
> new
>> tomorrow.
>> I am grateful to discover OS as a way of holding this leaderless future. 
>> I
>> relish the mails and look forward to the ongoing learning that is here.
>> Yoav Peck,
>> Jerusalem
>>
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