“How can CEOs learn from Kodak’s failure?”. Fabulous article for our meditating Fairfield communal purposes. From the last two paragraphs it could be said we are ‘in Kodak’ mode still.
“..Of course strategy sessions with the BIG CEO went nowhere. Of course all the people buried in the hierarchy who saw the oncoming problems and had ideas for solutions made no progress. Their bosses and peers ignored them.” Yes we just accomplished a strategic removal of an unable/disabling old leadership for the university community yet in what touches the Fairfield meditating community there are no tools or skillsets to use yet inside there that would help facilitate a communal transition. Being available to listen and share is not where the Rajas have been with this. The work that got done to remove Bevan was done ad hoc by the community and forced on them. Yes things are being done now at the level of Hagelin but it is autocratic and not apparent because it still does not sit with, listen or engage with the meditating community outside the university and movement bubble. Same old problem. A desire is there for transition but no method/practiced skillsets to facilitate innovation. These are school teachers and ‘administrators’ by experience, not leaders in the sense of effective CEO’s. Effective leadership of this would require training old dogs in new methods of listening circles, non-violent communication listening skills, intergenerational work, and restorative justice work that might actually acknowledge the past in going forward. Because of a leadership character of where a past leadership has for so long taken us we are starting a communal climb out from way down in a hole. The last paragraphs of the Kodak article are useful to read as to a way out.. Kodak article: “How can CEOs learn from Kodak’s failure? Historically, Kodak was built on a culture of innovation and change. It’s the type of culture that’s full of passionate innovators, already naturally in tune to the urgency surrounding changes in the market and technology. It’s these people – those excited about new ideas within your own organization – who keep your company moving ahead instead of falling behind. One key to avoiding complacency is to ensure these innovators have a voice with enough volume to be heard (and listened to) at the top. It’s these voices that can continue to keep a sense of urgency in your organization. If they are given the power to lead, they will continue to innovate, help keep a culture of urgency and affect change. ... The organization overflowed with complacency http://www.kotterinternational.com/kotterprinciples/urgency/complacency. I saw it, maybe in the late 1980s. Kodak was failing to keep up even before the digital revolution when Fuji started doing a better job with the old technology, the roll-film business. With the complacency so rock-solid, and no one at the top even devoting their priorities toward turning that problem into a huge urgency around a huge opportunity, of course they went nowhere. Of course strategy sessions with the BIG CEO went nowhere. Of course all the people buried in the hierarchy who saw the oncoming problems and had ideas for solutions made no progress. Their bosses and peers ignored them.” Barriers to Change: The Real Reason Behind the Kodak Downfall http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#5011be473698 http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#5011be473698 Barriers to Change: The Real Reason Behind the Kodak... http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#5011be473698 Dr. John Kotter discusses the real reason behind the Kodak downfall: complacency. Read on to find out how Kodak let complacency take over, and how to avo... View on www.forbes.com http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#5011be473698 Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emily.ma...@yahoo.com> wrote : "Restorative justice." Nice term. So is this happening in Fairfield? Awareness without action, or in other words, "complacency" is not a good strategy. Reenvision! Barriers to Change: The Real Reason Behind the Kodak Downfall http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#b02a9e136985 http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#b02a9e136985 Barriers to Change: The Real Reason Behind the Kodak... http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#b02a9e136985 Dr. John Kotter discusses the real reason behind the Kodak downfall: complacency. Read on to find out how Kodak let complacency take over, and how to avo... View on www.forbes.com http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkotter/2012/05/02/barriers-to-change-the-real-reason-behind-the-kodak-downfall/#b02a9e136985 Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : For a small place, Fairfield, Iowa has a number of open performance venues and open space parks that are actively used. ..That is all fine. However, it is evident in history that where spiritual practice groups like ours diffuse into other things, absorbed in business, social or political cause and they get away from their formative spiritual practice it is not long before their communal assets get sold off. Bankruptcy got headed off last year for the university with a timely change of leadership. An evident challenge now for survival of the Domes is that the previous administration spent 37 years separating meditators from the collective practice. There is some deep hurt here to remediate. Turning the Domes in to open space for mundane performance or sports would really signal the end. No, there is work to do at reconciliation now. It likely is going to take some brave leadership to pull it off. See: Engaging Restorative Justice in Reclamation of Community https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/433528 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/433528 ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Maharishi explains that pure consciousness has a field-like character and is a universal field at the basis of everyone’s thought and behavior. When a sufficient number of individuals are experiencing pure consciousness during group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program, the field of pure consciousness is enlivened in the entire population. This field effect positively influences the quality of consciousness in the individuals in society in much the same direction as that experienced by those practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique, ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : * December 2016 Domes Attendance Report December this year shows: Yellow highlight = Higher Months YOY (year over year) Colder weather stops women's 7-month higher attendance streak Men's reduction much less than before Oct. Surprise (minus 7 compared to minus 30-something average), so Oct. Surprise effect continued into December. Weather effects women more than men. Increasing age increases reduction of attendance by weather (as we get older, winter weather lowers attendance more than it used to). I want to provide total Community attendance as soon as I can, not just the Domes. December 2016 Domes Attendance Bagambhrini Dome Patanjali Dome PM 2015 2011 PM 2015 2011 Jan 2016 189 -35 -16% -160 -85% 239 -46 -17% -197 -46% Feb 16 202 -6 -3% -129 -64% 228 -20 -8% -192 -46% Mar 16 230 -9 -4% -107 -47% 245 -27 -10% -157 -39% Apr 16 256 +4 +2% -88 - 34% 261 -17 -6% -159 -38% May 16 263 +20 +8% -87 -33% 255 -31 -11% -174 -40% June 16 293 +36 +14% -65 22% 267 -16 -6% -164 -38% July 16 317 +35 +12% -58 -18% 266 -48 -15% -185 -41% Aug 16 301 +71 +31% Not Available 253 Roof Repair -184 -42% Sept 16 313 +86 +38% “ “ 2 62 “ “ -157 -37% Oct 16 312 +144 +86% -56 -18% 278 +23 +9% -147 -35% Nov 16 253 +68 +37% -106 -42% 272 +28 +11% -186 -68% Dec. 16 177 -11 -6% -170 -96% 20 -7 -3 -218 -99% There is a specific reason why our attendance has decreased. It is definitely possible to greatly increase our attendance and provide much more calm and coherence to this country via the bliss of Super Radiance, the most powerful and effective way to create coherence and integration for society. If you would like to discuss how this can be done, please get in touch. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Internally the TM movement community has some top-notch consultants of both skill-sets and strategies in facilitating better communication. Tom Morgan in intercultural strategies who could help them strategize inclusivity from the top down and back up. Ken Daley who facilitates methodical strategic planning is excellent and has been extremely helpful to the processes that brought change to the movement leadership which came out of community mental health meetings. Charles Bargerstock who does corporate ‘Change Management’. Acquiring Skill-sets... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : In the ™ community the transition from elder to youth will, and is, happening in time. Right now the elder group needs to get some adult education to further their communication skill-sets and apply those right now. . If the elders can’t give themselves to do it then bring in some facilitation, like from the practiced restorative justice people. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Cultivating the wholistic grounded spiritual human being.. Great observation, the exercising of the polyvagal and the hologram of the wholeness of the subtle human system. Look at the aspect of the ™ movement that is doing well, the David Lynch Foundation (DLF) of teaching ™. . DLF is highly attractive to gen-x and gen-millennial youth because iDLF is not just some sect of meditating but doing service work to need. For good reasons DLF is engaged in teaching meditation to veterans, in violent schools, to single moms, at UN peacekeeping camps, teaching meditation in prisons, etc. DLF foci being of social service to peoples in need. The visioning people at the top of DLF were old successful field TM teachers, differing by a long shot from the stayed rigid old Vlodrop people,. The DLF cohort are anything but complacent in adaptation to need. Internally there has been quite a lot of argument and conflict with conservative ideologues inside over adaptation. Directed by science data and more empathetic scientists DLF as a group DLF has been able to go around conservative fanatics who would hold things back. Looking at the ‘go-fund-me’ fliers that were up all over town this last summer and fall here before the recent teacher training course started in Bali the requesting for help was so that the candidate could become a teacher of meditation to serve particular populations in need. The urgings were very idealistic in sympathy and empathetic for needs of the time. Polyvagal in nature. Much more of the heart than just in the head. yifuxero writes Old ideas often fade away only when the old generation dozes off. The Old Guard at MUM may change but it doesn't look like it. For example, take the connections between Consciousness and biology relating to the Polyvagal nervous system. The key ingredient is Compassion (the feeling of Compassion resulting from more Empathy). The old idea is that this would be a type of mood making and contrary to the notion that people are to meditate and "take it as it comes" No. Compassion must be worked on diligently and over time: the Quakers are an example. It's a type of culture that grows and evolves, but first the idea must be introduced. This is unlikely in the MUM atmosphere since Compassion doesn't bring in $. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emily.mae50@...> wrote : How about turning that iconic dome into a public space! Re-envision, repurpose it for an open, inclusive and rockin' venue.....e.g., you could do a "concerts in the dome" series. How are the acoustics? Sructure a public-private partnership with the Town of Fairfield. Public Space architecture and design | ArchDaily http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space http://www.archdaily.com/search/projects/categories/public-space
