Ted Ernst pionts to an article on leadership in participatory culture. The artile contains the following list of capacities:
- trust others and trust in the collective ability of a group
- draw attention to commonality between participants (rather than dividing them with differences)
- demonstrate active conscious commitment to vision, values, and goals as example to others
- act responsively to feedback and help grow feedback loops among participants
- show their humanity, making them credible and proving their integrity regularly
- listen actively and deeply with distributed credit so decisions seem to come from collective
- instill a sense of togetherness, a sense of “we can do this if we each do our part”
- defend the collective to outsiders and represents their needs
- hold each participant to their greatness
- open to seeing how the pieces fit together–open to emergence
- willing and ready for new opportunities
- able to respond with compassion in times of stress and difficulty
This is a very interesting and relevant list, especially in light of the exploring some of us are doing around the Art of Governance.
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I have gone almost completely paperless in my business. How about you?
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This film is Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s short story dealing with the subjectivy of eyewitness evidence in the solving of a crime.
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A nice introduction to the math and science of chaos. Rich ground for generating analogues in the organizational world.
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New Agey site but contains useful information on how the science of fractals can contribute to a consciousness that does not separate science and spirit.
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An older paper on three major ways that chaos is viewed and the respective responses by systems of order. A paper in the social and cultural realm.(tags: chaos organization)
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Nice blog post with great comments on complexity, evolution and emergence.
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A translation of the classic text on samurai sword wielding.
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From a paper on Korean poetry comes this poem by Ko Un, “Ode to Shim-chong:”
Indangsu sea, shine dark blue,
come rising as a cloudlike drumbeat.
The waters, the sailors who know the waters, may know
the dark fate of the world beyond
that lies past the path that sometimes appears,
the weeping of children born into this world,
and the sailors may know my daughter’s path.
How can the waters exist without the world beyond?
Full-bodied fear
has now become the most yearned-for thing in the world,
and my daughter’s whimpering stillness in the lotus bud will be such;
might love be a bright world and my eyes be plunged in utter darkness?
Daughter, already now the waters’ own mother,
advance over the waters,
advance over the waters
like the mists that come dropping over the waters.
My daughter, advance and travel through every world.
Shine dark blue, Indangsu. Weep dark blue.
Are we not called to be in those waters, as sailors who know the dark fate of the world beyond, willing to stand in the full bodied fear that this world craves?
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My friend Rowan was exploring some online tools and asking the question, how do we make these tools useful and relevant. My response, which I posted at his blog, goes like this:
In my experience what is most important is to first understand what your community needs. For example, a small group in the organization I am currently working with wanted a tool that allowed people to work on a document, but to only have access to the most recent draft. They set up an experimental wiki to do it, but that entailed them all learning wiki technology, which is not what they wanted to do. I showed the Google docs, which allows people to collaborate on one version of a document and which saves revisions and everything else. It looks and acts like a word processor. There was no learning curve, other than just figuring out how to get in and share documents, and they were able to get right down to the work they were doing.
In English we have an expression: “If all you have is a hammer, then everything you see is a nail.” In other words, we get so taken with our tools that we don’t see the underlying needs of the people we are working with. In both the worlds of online collaboration and face to face collaboration I think the most important role of the facilitator is to be fluent in a vast variety of tools and to only use what is essential to the task.
Therefore, I’m fond of my own library of facilitation tools, and sites like this one, that show all the kinds of Web 2.0 tools that are available to help collaboration. Play with them yourself so that you can discover what they can all do and then when the need arises, you’ll be familiar enough with them to propose just what is needed and not any more than necessary.
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A new way to examine humanity’s impact on the environment is to consider how the world would fare if all the people disappeared By Steve Mirsky