friends, i'm really enjoying this conversation about leadership. i like to think of influence as an important aspect of leadership. money has power that can be used to influence. throughout history we see examples of people who had influence but who chose to not have much money.
yesterday i was looking at the peter drucker foundation newsletter. here's and excerpt from an article about dee hock, ("the founder and chief executive officer emeritus of visa usa and visa international, and founder and coordinating director of the chaordic alliance.") "Mr. Hock defined chaord as [an autocatalytic, self-governing, adaptive, non-linear, complex, organism, organization or system exhibiting patterns and behavior characteristic of both order and chaos.] He explained that society needs to move from using the old machine metaphors influenced by the industrial revolution because it causes us to try to structure society and organizations in accordance with this clock-like mechanism. He encourages instead comparison to more complex biological organizing systems that have the capacity to receive, utilize, store, transform, and transmit." "He also encouraged a different way of looking at leadership in organizations. Rather than traditional management of authority--hiring, motivating, training, organizing, and directing subordinates, a leader should first manage oneself. Without proper management of self, no one is fit for authority, he said. After managing the self, a leader should manage those who have authority over us, our peers, and lastly, those over whom we have authority. Management of peers and superiors is done by such things as understanding them, persuading them, and motivating them--by leading them. Induced behavior, he said (Dee Hock), is the essence of leadership, compelled behavior is the essence of tyranny. You can only lead them if you can properly lead yourself. It is true leadership, leadership by everyone, chaordic leadership in, up, around, and down this world so badly needs, and mechanistic, dominator, industrial age management it so sadly gets." ... a perspective to throw into the discussion. john port au prince, Haiti _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html =========================================================== osl...@egroups.com To subscribe, 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign up -- provide an email address, and choose a login ID and password 3. Click on "Subscribe" and follow the instructions To unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@egroups.com: 1. Visit: http://www.egroups.com/group/oslist 2. Sign in and Proceed