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" <hho...@comcast.net> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> 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 > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives Visit: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu] On Behalf Of john engle > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:59 AM > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > 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 > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist > > * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
