Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
These days our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending escalating war and violence.
We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.
When leaders take back power when they act as heroes and saviors they end up exhausted overwhelmed and deeply stressed.
Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.
Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.
Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant given the context of any situation.
I think a major act of leadership right now call it a radical act is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together using our experiences.
I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed when it is needed.
Successful organizations including the Military have learned that the higher the risk the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
In these troubled uncertain times we don't need more command and control we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.
