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"Is leadership only for heroes?", by Zoe van Zwanenberg</a><br>
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"The work of leadership<br>
In our drive to provide simple answers with clear deliverable
outcomes for complex problems we have latched on to the notion that
strong, effective leaders are what will make the difference.<br>
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Current belief is that the work of leadership is to define not just
what needs to be done but how it will be done and by whom in a
defined linear format. In this model the work of leadership is to be
all knowing and to take the blame when things do not work out in
accordance with the master plan.<br>
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The certainty that this type of leadership provides should then
enable us to see our way out of the complex mix of dilemmas and
relationships that face us. This seems to presume a straight line of
cause and effect and also a simplicity of relationships between
problems and solutions that our everyday experience of the world
would deny.<br>
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It is also based on a very simple and value laden model of
leadership – that of the leader/hero who provides direction, goals,
standards and behaviors that all can follow.<br>
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If the work of leadership is to provide answers, then we are
resigning ourselves to being a dependent community of followers yet
reserving the right to sacrifice the leader when the answers do not
address the real problem or prove unacceptable."<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/10/2016 9:21 AM, Birgitt Williams
via OSList wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Dear Friends
and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Facilitators,
change agents, consultants, coaches, moderators and
trainers, in my experience, struggle with their role and
power as leaders. Years ago, I learned a lot from the late
Angeles Arrien about the power of leadership: the power of
position, the power of influence, the power of
communication. In our roles especially as outsiders to an
organization and to the lives of the people involved, we
have all three of these powers. I have been active in my
pursuit of understanding leadership since I was fifteen and
catapulted into leadership positions that I may or may not
have been ready for, despite what the adults around me might
have believed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">In recent
years, one of the leadership competencies that has grown and
expanded in me is the ability to embrace paradox, to
simultaneously hold two seemingly opposing views or
emotions, with both being valid for me. For example, I can
recognize in myself to be in extreme gratitude for something
simultaneous to feeling extreme anger…containing both
emotions simultaneously, not sequentially. I have come to
understand how important this is as a leadership competency,
and I write about it on this list as I feel it is a most
valuable competency for facilitators of OST. I remember way
back when Harrison teaching about OST assisting the people
in a system working with both chaos and order. I was
fascinated by this topic. And yet, today, I admit that as I
learned about chaos and order, I seemed to have an internal
picture of one, then the other, then the other, kind of like
a teeter totter with possibly some kind of balance point at
the fulcrum. As I expanded my capacity to handle paradox, I
was able to genuinely grasp chaos and order both existing
simultaneously.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">In
understanding and working with OST, I think it is important
to embrace paradox and to expand our personal capacity to
handle paradox in even very stress filled situations. For
example, a paradox that we end up contending with is that
everything is open space, and Open Space Technology is a
tool. What is the benefit of grasping this paradox, you
might ask? If I approach OST as a tool from the simultaneous
perspective of ‘everything is open space’, I am going to
influence different outcomes than if I approach working with
OST only as a tool. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">I wrote
about embracing paradox recently, so you can see I am
feeling deep interest in this topic at the moment <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.dalarinternational.com/the-power-of-limits"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dalarinternational.com/the-power-of-limits">http://www.dalarinternational.com/the-power-of-limits</a></a>.
What are your thoughts about ourselves as leaders? What are
your thoughts about the importance of expanding personal
leadership competency with embracing paradox? Or maybe, in
working with OST you are currently developing other
leadership competencies? I am interested to see if anyone
has interest in showing up to this topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">With
blessings,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Birgitt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Birgitt
Williams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">President
& Senior Consultant of Dalar International Consultancy,
Inc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.dalarinternational.com/"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt">http://www.dalarinternational.com</span></a><span
style="font-size:10.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Co-founder
of the Extraordinary Leadership Network </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.extraordinaryleadershipnetwork.com/"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.extraordinaryleadershipnetwork.com">http://www.extraordinaryleadershipnetwork.com</a></span></a><span
style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Co-founder
of the Genuine Contact™program and author of The Genuine
Contact Way: Nourishing a Culture of Leadership </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.genuinecontactway.com/"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.genuinecontactway.com">http://www.genuinecontactway.com</a></span></a><span
style="font-size:10.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Co-owner of
the Genuine Contact Co-owners Group Ltd. </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.genuinecontact.net/"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.genuinecontact.net">http://www.genuinecontact.net</a></span></a><span
style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Supporting
leadership development for leading in a culture
requiring agility and flexibility in a performance
environment of constant change.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Leadership
development at your own pace? Become a member of the
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style="font-size:10.0pt"> to participate in an online
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