If you want something done
If you want to get something done, you can boss people, you can lead, or you can get out of their way. Which you choose depends upon the job to be done. If you want breakthrough you engage more imaginations.
:- Doug.
Archive for October 4th, 2007
In business terms, repertoire
In business terms, what we’re doing in open space is increasing the repertoire. When you start out, you learn all about management techniques, then you add leadership, and here we move the next step to doing together. It is similar to the progression I went through from speaking to more and more participative work to, so far, getting out of the way. We don’t throw any of it away; life has it all; there is still a place for management and a place for speeches. They just aren’t as effective if you want committed action. So from this point of view helping things emerge, making way for them to emerge, is a distance, at the other end of the spectrum from, is antithetical to, selling.
:- Doug.
