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<DIV>Love the discussion on management. These are from a recent
publication.</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt">The
intent of leadership is to inspire passion, identify opportunities, and engage
strengths for change, creativity, and innovation</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt">.
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.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt">The
role of leader is to dream the impossible and inspire the
improbable.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt">Management
is the opposite intention - to maintain predictability through the
administration of compliance.</SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt">
Management is the administration of compliance to policies and procedures<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">. </I>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.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt"><o:p>peace...</o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Microsoft Sans Serif'; mso-font-kerning: 8.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P></DIV>
<DIV>jack</DIV>
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<DIV>_/\_</DIV>
<DIV>jack ricchiuto</DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.designinglife.com">www.designinglife.com</A></DIV>
<DIV>two.one.six.three.seven.three.seven.four.seven.five</DIV>
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<DIV>------------Original Message------------</DIV>
<DIV>From: EVERETT813@aol.com</DIV>
<DIV>To: OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU</DIV>
<DIV>Date: Fri, Nov-5-2004 12:26 PM</DIV>
<DIV>Subject: Re: Muddling Through</DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT
face=Geneva color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>In a message dated
11/5/04 4:29:38 AM, hhowen@comcast.net writes:<BR><BR><BR>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Chris wrote: Why is management that says it wants to
innovate so afraid of<BR>mess?<BR><BR>I guess that is pretty simple. Most
managers are trained and paid to avoid<BR>messes. Not too long ago (and
maybe still) the shorthand answer to the<BR>question: What is good
management? -- was "Make the plan, manage to the<BR>plan, and meet the
plan." In short -- always be in control and never make a<BR>mess. Your
Mother wouldn't like it and neither will your
Boss.<BR><BR>Harrison<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><FONT face=Geneva color=#000000
size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Chris, Harrison, et. al.,<BR><BR>Just a quick
comment on "mess". In the Creative Problem Solving Institute's paradigm
of CPS, there is an initial state called "sorting out the Fuzzy Mess" wherein
all the issues, anxieties, problems, etc., that are exercising the
organization are sorted out and some chosen to continue on into the CPS
sequence (Fact-Finding, Problem Finding, Idea Finding, Solution Finding,
Acceptance Finding, then on to Implementation). It's a little linear to
speak of a CPS process because it is really more like a helix but it serves
for learning purposes. <BR><BR>At any rate, when I'm working with an
organization I often will introduce the idea of "Messiness" as a positive
good, an excellent beginning state, one which allows us "not to know".
(Imagine that, "I don't know" becomes OK). Which state relieves
considerable pressure and reassures the participants, especially top
management, that there is a way to sort through the difficulties they are
facing or experiencing without have the burden of omniscience to deal with,
too. It's just a little device to say that chaos is natural, always
present, and actually needed in order for change to occur. I'm often
surprised at how "new" this fundamental idea is and how much it relaxes the
situation.<BR><BR>Paul Everett<BR><BR>jpeseeker@aol.com </FONT><FONT
face=Geneva color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></FONT>* *
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