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24 Mar 08

Business Creativity and Happiness: Leadership and Culture

The key feature of this leadership type is learning - agility - conversation

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  • It is the responsibility of leaders to bring about this shift in behavior by having both a vision of integrity for the organization and a strategic plan for ensuring such integrity. This vision must be articulated in a way that is relevant and actionable by employees. A vision that aims too high will not be taken seriously while one that is too pedestrian will not motivate employees.
  • a wide base of knowledge and a life filled with challenge. Maturity expresses a commitment to courageously choose to define and protect ones social space in the presence of hostile forces while maintaining an adroit process of self-criticism and accountability for those choices. A wide base of knowledge infers more than a mere accumulation of data but rather an ongoing quest to be conversant with the many discourses and varied articulations they entail. Challenge-filled refers to a belief in a bursting forth of possibilities. This belief in open possibilities, limited by responsibility, explains the relationship between management and contextual leadership. Simply put, contextual leadership calls into question the very core of historical management rationale that emphasize rules, universality, and impartiality over contingent ways of reasoning that emphasize relationships, particularity, and partiality.
23 Mar 08

The Machinery of Hope : Rolling Stone

  • No group represents the campaign machine that Obama has built
    better than AlamObama. A year ago, the group was nothing more than
    eight people who attended an informal get-together at a Borders
    bookstore. Today, it's a 600-member grass-roots outfit — an
    all-volunteer field operation that hums with the energy and
    efficiency of a fully staffed campaign office. "In Iowa, the
    campaign was on the ground for six months," says Judy Hall, a
    college professor who co-founded the group. "They come here, and
    it's like they've already been on the ground for six months. Those
    of us in the grass roots, we simply minded the store.

  • As Hall's well-honed operation makes clear, the Obama campaign
    has succeeded not by attracting starry-eyed followers who place
    their faith in hope but by motivating committed activists who are
    answering a call to national service. They're pouring their
    lifeblood into this campaign, not because they are in thrall to a
    cult of personality but because they're invested in the idea that
    politics matter, and that their participation can turn the current
    political system on its ear.


    In reality, it already has. "We're seeing the last time a
    top-down campaign has a chance to win it," says Trippi. "There
    won't be another campaign that makes the same mistake the Clintons
    made of being dependent on big donors and insiders. It's not going
    to work ever again."

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