[OSList] Toyota or equivalent / Leadership
Harold Shinsato
harold at shinsato.com
Sun Jul 21 12:34:29 PDT 2013
Hi Carolina,
Alas, a tardy reply. Perhaps it will be useful. The literature around
participatory leadership in Lean Manufacturing and Toyota in particular
is vast and extensive. There are many voices, and nothing is
particularly short and profound at the same time.
There is one voice teaching in the lean and agile communities that I
find willing to challenge my thinking - and this post is one of the
clearest I've seen about problems with the term leadership and inherent
dysfunctions - especially in knowledge work:
http://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/leadership-or-fellowship/
This is also one of the most profound benefits I've found in Open Space.
That it fosters fellowship dramatically by allowing people to
self-organize based on affinity. Leaders implies followers. Following
implies allowing the leader to do the thinking - which is a great waste
of our sacred gray matter.
Cheers,
Harold
On 7/17/13 4:21 AM, Anna Caroline Türk wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> this is great information and insights!
> Thank you for sharing.
>
> Yes, it is fun to co-create a session about leadership.
> Due to my background I call it genuine leadership - but I guess
> authentic leadership is the same.
>
> I like the clarification around wisdom of the whole.
> And I love how this list expresses and lives it.
>
> I pass your wisdom on...
> Maybe my friend (and guinea pig) will join this circle as a result of
> your sharing - who knows!
>
> much Love
> AC*
>
>
>
> On Jul 17, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Hege Steinsland
> <steinslandhege at gmail.com <mailto:steinslandhege at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hello Anna Carolina!
>>
>> I can recommend the work of Joseph A. Raelin. One interesting book
>> with good examples is: Creating Leaderful organizations. How to brig
>> out leadership in everyone.
>> I´ve been working a bit with Realins approach, and his word "
>> leaderful". It suggest that shared leadership bring out more
>> leadership, not less, as many will suppose ( leaderless)
>> Open Space is a key for me to understand how this can actually work.
>>
>> All the best from
>> Hege in Norway
>> 17. juli 2013 kl. 09:26 skrev gerardo de luzenberger <xge at loci.it
>> <mailto:xge at loci.it>>:
>>
>>> Thanks Harrison. Very inspiring to
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>>> 2013/7/16 Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net <mailto:hhowen at verizon.net>>
>>>
>>> Anna -- Sounds like a marvelous new adventure. Doubtless you
>>> will find some
>>> great stories and thinking in the writings of Marv Weisbord and
>>> Eric Trist.
>>> Eric was before my time, and Marv is an old friend. But I think
>>> you may have
>>> (your "guinea pig may have) two separate interests here:
>>> Participatory
>>> Leadership and Wisdom of the Whole. Of course they could be the
>>> same thing,
>>> but typically people like Trist and Weisbord understood
>>> Leadership to be
>>> more or less equated with the Formal Leadership of an
>>> organization, and the
>>> effort was to help them (The Leaders) share their task. But
>>> there was never
>>> any question as to Who the Leader(s) was.
>>>
>>> "Wisdom of the Whole," seems to me, come from a very different
>>> place.
>>> Leadership in that situation is understood to be a function or a
>>> role that
>>> may in fact be performed by anybody and (over time) everybody. And
>>> Leadership is never to be limited to, or equated with the Formal
>>> Leaders.
>>> Many people would see this as a confusing, perhaps revolutionary
>>> thought.
>>> After all things could get out of hand, confused, to say nothing
>>> of chaotic.
>>> Might we say, Out of Control!
>>>
>>> This, of course, is precisely the problem (opportunity) lots of
>>> folks have
>>> with Open Space, especially when they just hear about it. After
>>> all, nobody
>>> is in charge. Everybody is -- And that, I think is real
>>> Participatory
>>> Leadership. Leadership is not something to be shared, if only
>>> because it is
>>> the possession and birthright of everybody. No need for a share
>>> of something
>>> you already possess!
>>>
>>> To me, this takes us to the heart of the lesson from Open Space.
>>> Sure it is
>>> a nice meeting methodology, a "tool" for group work, a "process,
>>> if you
>>> will... but that is just the beginning, and a very small
>>> beginning. At the
>>> end of the day it (OS) is an experience of, and training in real
>>> leadership
>>> -- What I have called Authentic Leadership.
>>>
>>> And of course, I just happen to have written a book that
>>> explains all this:
>>> "Wave Rider: Leadership for High Performance in a Transforming
>>> World" :-)
>>>
>>> Harrison
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>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I am just experimenting with a leadership coaching program.
>>> And my guinea pig wants more information about participatory
>>> leadership -
>>> wisdom of the whole... I remember all the stories about Toyota
>>> and other car
>>> industry that changed their productivity by involving all workers.
>>>
>>> Can you link me with short and profound articles?
>>> Or links?
>>>
>>> Would be very much appreciated!
>>>
>>> much Love from Berlin,
>>> AC*
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