Hi Folks... Fascinated discussion regarding power...
My experience is a bit different. I see power as manifested from fear, insecurity, and a supreme lack of imagination. Fear and insecurity requires an element of control. Control strips away passion and undermines imagination. When we lack passion we relinguish responsibility. Dave. >From: Funda Oral <[email protected]> >Reply-To: OSLIST <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Leadership and Power >Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:21:36 +0300 > >I couldn't read the other messages but I wanted to share what came to my >mind when I read this > >Leadership and Power is a stupid dream created collaborately by those > >* who are too lazy to think to create a life for themselves or who are not >given enough space or opportunity to do so >and >* who are so blind or so fascinated by power and by the need to be >appreciated and applauded that they believe they must create a life >a destiny for others. > >or in another way of saying; > >* those who think they know better and are more powerfull >and >* the others who think they don't know, they aren't good enough, powerfull >enough etc. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Harrison Owen" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 8:35 PM >Subject: Re: Leadership and Power > > > > John asked: > > > > what do you see as the relationship between Leadership and Power? > > > > I suppose that depends on what you mean by "leadership" and "power." One >of > > things that I have learned in Open Space is that Leadership appears at the > > crossroads of passion and responsibility. Or putting it another way, the > > leader is one who claims his passion with responsibility. By doing so, he >or > > she opens some space for something new to appear. There is no guarantee >that > > the new will make an appearance, or that if it does, it will be useful, >but > > the potential is there. When the space is open and the new (plan, action, > > program, idea) stikes a resonant chord with those who share the passion in >a > > responsible way -- things begin to move. Or -- we might say, power begins >to > > flow. Power, from where I sit, is quite simply the motive force which > > energizes life. I guess that is a tautology, but it is as good as I can >do. > > Point is nobody owns it, and for sure nobody can really control it. Under > > the best of circumstances, we can only open some space in which power may > > flow. We might even channel it a bit, but that is about all. > > > > A major point is that the Leader certainly doesn't own it (power). For >power > > is always the collective juices entering an an attractive open space to >get > > some job done, thought thought, plan made. Looking at power and leadership > > in the terms I have suggested makes it crystal clear that Leadership is >not > > (nor has it ever been) position, titual, a matter of confered status. > > Leadership is an action which all of us can, do, and must take. So to >speak > > of The Leadership, or The Leader as a predetermined reality is idiocy. For > > sure, those designated (falsely I think) as Leaders can lead, and >hopefully > > they do. But they have no corner on the market, and waiting for them to >lead > > (or blaming them when they don't) is a simple abdication of our right and > > responsibility -- to lead. > > > > Harrison > > > > > > Harrison Owen > > 7808 River Falls Drive > > Potomac, Maryland 20845 > > Phone 301-365-2093 > > > > Open Space Training www.openspaceworld.com > > Open Space Institute www.openspaceworld.org > > Personal website http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hhowen/index.htm > > [email protected] > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: OSLIST [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of john >engle > > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:59 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Leadership and Power > > > > hi friends. > > > > my colleagues and i are working on our next newsletter for beyond borders, > > an organization i'm affiliated with. the theme is going to be Leadership >and > > Power and i've just posted on my blog a half a dozen great quotes that my > > haitian colleagues put on our OS list serve in haitian creole. > > > > if you want to take a look, go to http://johnengle.blogspot.com (same as > > below). > > > > if you want to receive Beyond Borders' ezines, sign up on home page at: > > http://beyondborders.net. > > > > what do you see as the relationship between Leadership and Power? > > > > peace, > > > > john > > > > http://JohnEngle.blogspot.com - Reflections about Haiti, life, and our >work. > > http://JohnEngle.info > > http://TheExperiment.info > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > MSN Search, le moteur de recherche qui pense comme vous ! > > http://search.msn.fr/worldwide.asp > > > > * > > * > > ========================================================== > > [email protected] > > ------------------------------ > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > > view the archives of [email protected]: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > > > * > > * > > ========================================================== > > [email protected] > > ------------------------------ > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > > view the archives of [email protected]: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > > > > >* >* >========================================================== >[email protected] >------------------------------ >To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, >view the archives of [email protected]: >http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > >To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: >http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
