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picture9 Jan 2008 @ 08:33, by John Ashbaugh

About the Day.
The first day back to school, after two weeks away.

About the Day.
The first day back to school, after two weeks away.
Today I had some stuff for my group dynamics class,
Back and forth across the room agreeeing or dis-agreeing
About concepts of leadership. What it means? How it works?
Who is the leader? Who does the listening and who is listened to?
Not always the one who talks the longest.
Where is your balance between speaking and listening?
Then there is this afternoon closing out Group Dynamics
And formulating a class for World Cultures and Globalization.
Amazing course. What is Globalization doing to the cultures
of this very multi-cultural planet?
Do not answer this question. There are many answers.
What is the corporate mentality and how much longer
Shall it reap its profits from the slave mentality?
Super-complex, highly technological things are being created
To cement the slave population into a permanent formation.
The task is progressing, with various perturbations
From the multitudes along the way,
But nothing we couldn’t direct into another war or two or three.
Maintaining a permanent state of war around the planet can be a tricky business.
There is an actual war going on beneath all of the surface skirmishes
That are written up in the history books.
This is that old cooperation or control mantra.
Where do you want to go? Cooperation or Control?
I don’t care why.
The difference between freedom of expression,
Understanding and compassion on the one hand
And the things those are not on the other.
All in a day’s conversation
through two classrooms and several walks down the hallways,
one long, one short, and one in between.


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9 Jan 2008 @ 13:11 by swanny : Guidance
Hi Koravya I was thinking about leadership lately too
and thought in its truest form it is a most thankless job
and should be avoided or minimized.
In deference I thought well then what?
and I thought the term guidance to be better as it contains
the premise of succession while leadership doesnt always act or
consider things in that holistic manner ...
and it often assumes that the leader is always right, knows everything
and has nothing to learn but what about delegating and taking turns etc.
and being mutually responsible...

so I would say avoid or minimize leading but instead guide, steward, and mentor.

just my opinion

ed  

10 Jan 2008 @ 07:58 by koravya : Situational
Hi ed,
Some of my courses I learn as I teach them.
Situational Leadership recognizes three Leadership Styles:
Authoritative, Democratic, and Laissez-faire.
An astute leader knows how to recognize which group situations
require which kind of Style.
You are talking about cooperation.
We also teach here that qualities of leadership are within everyone
and those come out of each of us when the area of our expertise or talent
is called upon. It is wise to be sensitive to one's own capabilities.
You never know when you might be called upon, not necessarily by someone else, but by something that you have heard.
Effective Leadership also require good listening skills.
Thanks,
JA
"Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time, any serious effort in what, under happier curcumstances, would have been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not - they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations of mankind." Edgar Allen Poe  

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