It is interesting how so many things get back to having the courage and insight to simply demonstrate leadership by being courageous and thinking differently. If only people realized how easily they can invent the future by executing on this concept.

Bravo Kevin; some days I think your writing is almost as good as mine.

Howard Adamsky

…i know which one i want to be when i grow up!

*wink*
~jer

http://www.jeremylanghans.com

[Turf Wars] between various elements of an enterprise; they?re found in every organization of any size. With individual careers [incomes] on the line, it?s a situation that will be in play in perpetuity, and without really great leadership will be difficult to combat and/or overcome.

Also at play is a failure by ?executives/managers? [you know those guys in-charge like the ones you suggest] that are too often dismissive of, and have no appreciation [at all] for the non-linear [creative] thinkers in an organization. John Sullivan in Rethinking Strategic HR [I?d have replaced ?HR? with HC], describes the situation in terms of, ?One of the most startling revelations by individuals who are for the first time striving to be strategic is that they are almost always ?shocked? when they first see ?real? strategic ideas. They somehow expect strategic ideas to be easy to understand and instantly credible. They also assume that the clear logic and workability of strategic solutions will just ?jump out at you.? In reality, nothing can be further from the truth.?

I?d describe the situation? within the ranks of too many corporate enterprises, as a prevalence of management [leadership would be a stretch] clones, as cogs who re[act] to problems and challenges in predictable ways, including:

(1) What happens to concepts–why there is so little creativity:

Yesterday you asked me why I wanted it.
Today you asked me why I don?t have it!

>>>>>>>>> AND >>>>>>>>>>>

(2) The belief that managers are leaders, when in reality managers are linear operators who respond to situations and events in the following way:

There they go!
I must catch them!
For, I am their leader!

So, just how does an organization go about the business of change when, those in command have neither the necessary foresight, nor the courage required; and those in authority are dismissive when presented [confronted] with ideas that seem alien or odd?

JW wuld have fit right into your metrics, Mr. Wheeler.