[OSList] Toyota or equivalent / Leadership

Mon Jul 22 01:08:22 PDT 2013

Thank you Harold for this amazing post. Profound and sobering at the same
time. We have work to do, in fellowship....opening space!
Suzanne
On Jul 21, 2013 3:56 PM, "Harold Shinsato" <harold at shinsato.com> wrote:

>  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>
> 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>:
>
> Thanks Harrison. Very inspiring to
> read this while preparing a future search
>  on the future of environmental education
> in Sardinia (Italy)
> Have a nice day
> ge
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> 2013/7/16 Harrison Owen <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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>> [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Anna
>> Caroline
>> Türk
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 9:22 AM
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>> Subject: [OSList] Toyota or equivalent
>>
>> 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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