Jack-- I would only add what to me is so significant - leadership is an inner journey that is able to let go of ego first, and then outer directed in addition to the inner focus. Be Peace --BJ
BJ Peters b...@cox.net 602.279.4805 "The path of violence moves - sharp, sharper, sharpest, while the path of nonviolence moves - gently, gentlier, gentliest." -- Dwarko Sundrani, last active disciple of Mahatma Gandhi On Friday, November 5, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Jack Ricchiuto wrote:
Love the discussion on management. These are from a recent publication. The intent of leadership is to inspire passion, identify opportunities, and engage strengths for change, creativity, and innovation. Leadership is key to any community's ability to use its capabilities adaptively in new ways. Leadership unleashes new dreams, dreams that go beyond what we've so far imagined possible. Leadership inspires people to dream beyond what they’ve ever thought possible. The role of leader is to dream the impossible and inspire the improbable. Management is the opposite intention - to maintain predictability through the administration of compliance.Management is the administration of compliance to policies and procedures. It is focused on making the trains run on time. When we want the consistency of no negative surprises, management is a tool to make that happen. It is the tool of the formal organization to maintain predictability. Leadership is about inspiring and engaging adaptive variation, change, and creativity beyond what has already been accomplished through managed compliance. Leadership is the domain of everything in the organization that cannot be predicted or controlled. It's designed to handle things that happen unplanned. Leadership's prime value is in situations outside the box of prescribed behaviors in the organization - in the white spaces on the organization chart where things happen unplanned. The prime tools of management are instructions; the prime tools of leadership are conversations. The purpose of leadership is to create conversations with an intention to create new ways of combining capabilities for new levels of performance. peace... jack _/\_ jack ricchiuto www.designinglife.com two.one.six.three.seven.three.seven.four.seven.five
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