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For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.

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I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

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There are many benefits to this process of listening. The first is that good listeners are created as people feel listened to. Listening is a reciprocal process - we become more attentive to others if they have attended to us.

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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.

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Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

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Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

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We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.

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Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

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Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

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Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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