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.. .. What qualities of mind, body and spirit must leaders bring to overcome the current limitations and crises?  Young leaders ask: In what directions do I need to grow to develop a fuller use of my potential? ...

What qualities, skills, talents are dormant in me that could be expressed more fully? How would developing these qualities better the world?*** Jean Houston  - from news page of her site jeanhouston.org -  "The School for Social Artists" books by Jean Houston : A Passion for the Possible Jump Time: Shaping Your Future In A World of Radical Change

*related page:**nurturing talent****interview: Jean Houston

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************.... Danah Zohar

To qualify as servant leaders in the deepest sense, I think that leaders must have four essential qualities.

They must have a deep sense of the interconnectedness of life and all its enterprises. They must have a sense
of engagement and responsibility, a sense of "I have to." They must be aware that all human endeavor,
including business, is a part of the larger and richer fabric of the whole universe.

And perhaps most important of all, servant leaders must know what they ultimately serve. They must,
with a sense of humility and gratitude, have a sense of the Source from which all values emerge.

**Rewiring The Corporate Brain: Using The New Science To Rethink
                    How We Structure And Lead Organizations   by Danah Zohar
 
 
 

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.. .. There was no way we could have a successful show if there couldn't be fireworks and if [Judge Amy] couldn't be a leader.

But women lead differently from men... You're always walking a fine line between being authoritative and being perceived as bitchy.  The way we get by with that, and the way I get by with it in my own life, depends on what motivates you. If you're motivated by the work rather than ego, you can justify it and get away with it. Barbara Hall - exec producer: "Judging Amy"  from interview in Written By, April 2000

 

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"Many who are truly superior will struggle against their genuine call to personal and civic power
because they fear exercising authority. Usually, they are reluctant to consider themselves 'better than'
or 'above' others, in large part because a sense of humility accompanies their personal and spiritual power."

   M. Scott Peck, M.D. - author: The Road Less Traveled and Beyond
 

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"It's just not in our capacity as human beings to take direction.
I don't actually think it's in the capacity of anything alive to take direction when it's trying
to exercise its creativity in response to what you just asked it to do."

   Margaret Wheatley  -  from interview in newsletter of ONN-Wisdom wisdomtalk.org

*book:**Leadership and the New Science
 

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"As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Always avoid violence. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in your struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos." Excerpted from "The Most Durable Power", a sermon  of 6 November 1956 in Montgomery, Ala.  by Martin Luther King, Jr., posted on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project: stanford.edu/group/King Clayborne Carson. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

 
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"May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value,
rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary endeavors
of common people, and make their way to the eyes of the weary - light to the dark, fire to the chill."

  Jan Phillips - from her book God is at Eye Level    [quote from her website janphillips.com]
 

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"My father. crowned me his 'business daughter'... took me to his office every Saturday and taught me how to analyze companies. .. he would quiz me about whether he should invest in a company. My opinion almost always turned out to be right, but he rarely took my advice. Who's going to listen to an 8-year-old?"    Geraldine Laybourne   (CEO of Oxygen Media)

 

*related page:**Women Of Talent - Power and Leadership
 

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Converging technologies give us the opportunity to create a new renaissance in our culture.
Renaissance is the French term for rebirth, a time of cultural and spiritual transformation.

If we are to create a new renaissance, we must include the qualities of the soul with the new technologies.

We must include art, spirituality, and philosophical inquiry with technology. Today we long for sacredness
in the midst of the excessive materialism of our times.

Visionary leadership plays a role in bringing sacredness to this convergence.

  from article "Vision Quest: Transforming the Way We Live and Work" by Linda Naiman of Creativity at Work
 

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The position of the artist in society is frequently marginal. In a time when there is so much
performance in public life from non-artists.. does the artist have something to offer society
in terms of civic leadership? ... Could the artist, in fact, become an unexpected voice of reason?

Anna Deavere Smith, Director: Institute on the Arts & Civic Dialogue
 

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Most people understand the critical role of self-esteem in the lives of people who accomplish
and succeed. Without self-esteem even the most talented fail. We know that if we constantly
criticize a child, telling them they aren't good enough... they develop an inferiority complex.

What happens to a team or organization that gets the same message? What happens to people
when most or all of their organizational life is lived in gap land?

I've come to believe that organizations also develop inferiority complexes and when that happens
there is no chance of outstanding performance. ...

What happens when we let go of a deficit mindset and develop an appreciative mindset?

The most general thing is that we start to see our organizations primarily as people and
human relationships capable of limitless capacity and potential to achieve whatever
the human imagination can yearn for.

  Gervase R. Bushe Ph.D................Clear Leadership

....related pages:.......awareness / thinking............self-esteem / self concept

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"The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind."  Harriet Rubin .. [from Fast Company magazine newsletter]  *The Princessa

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.. .. All of my adult life, I have preached the virtues of power sharing between men and women.  The arrangement seemed not only fair, but also obvious: Women populate half the democracy; we should occupy half the positions of leadership - both for gender equity and because women, a natural resource, should be mined for energy. Now when I think of women in leadership, I think of it not only as the fair thing to do, but also as the only thing to do.

In a few short years, the world has become very unstable. Terrorists attacked us on our soil; in response, we waged war against Afghanistan and Iraq.  The formerly robust U.S. economy will soon sag under the biggest deficit in its history. Corporate greed has wiped out whole companies, along with hundreds of thousands of jobs. Millions of Americans continue to live without adequate health care. When I look at the issues we face, and when I think of the changes we need, I am as convinced as I have ever been that our future depends on the leadership of women - not to replace men, but to transform our options alongside them. Marie C. Wilson, President, Ms. Foundation for Women -  from introduction to her book Closing the Leadership Gap:  Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World  sites : Ms. Foundation for Women Closing the Leadership Gap

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.. .. Leadership courage (individual and organization): The courageous culture of an organization honors and uplifts the human spirit (the opposite of authoritarianism or coercion).  The collective intent of an organization is to lock hearts and minds to inspire.  There's a heightened sensitivity to purpose with increased discernment for human beings.  It means the organization (and its people) will fall on their sword to honor their collective personal courage.

.. .. Courage leadership knows the difference between pride/arrogance and humility/grace.  Individual leadership courage: Rooted in truth, you know your own mind and speak it. Sandra Ford Walston Courage Newsletter 3/2/2004 - from her site ...Courage: The Heart and Spirit of Every Woman :  Reclaiming the Forgotten Virtue

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.. .. When there are only eight of the Fortune 500 chairpersons who are women, I don't think you'd exactly have to be a genius to say maybe we could do a little bit better than that. ...  One of the things that I'm arguing is that if women have the enormous market clout that I believe it's obvious that they do - if women are pretty clearly substantially different in their approach to purchasing decision-making for everything from health services to financial services to hospitality services to automobiles and computers - then it figures that we would be a lot better off if we had people who understood the consumer in the positions of leadership.

So there's that simple hard-boiled economic argument. ...  I believe that we are in the midst of an enormous change in the way enterprises of all sorts.. do their business.  I really believe that hierarchies were invented by men for men, and essentially hierarchies by definition are slow moving because they aren't parallel processors of information. ...  The skills that women inherently bring to the table are particularly well suited for a different organizational shape.  I mean women do relationships, and you can get yourself in trouble with this because so do some guys, just not many. ... Women do the multitasking thing, they do the relationship thing. Tom Peters[USA Today Dec 8 2003]-  ...about his book: Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age

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"To create real change in this world, you have to have a vision, and you have to have
enormous perseverance. It's the same principle that applies in any entrepreneurial venture:
You've got to be too stupid to quit."

  Marguerite W. Sallee, Chairwoman and CEO, Frontline Group  [fastcompany.com Dec.00]
 

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*--interviews:
 

Megan Gaiser   president and executive producer of Her Interactive: games for girls

Mary Rodgers Guettel Chairman of the Board: the Juilliard School; composer of "Once Upon a Mattress"

Jean Houston  author of 16 books including "A Passion for the Possible"

Kathy Ireland  model; clothing and home furnishings designer, entrepreneur

Marilyn Mosley  Director of the Laurel Springs School (K-12), with many actors & other gifted students

Pam Nelson    Founder of Girl Press (book: "Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks" etc)

Kathleen Noble   Professor; editor of "Remarkable Women: Perspectives on Female Talent Development"

Judy Rosener   Author: "America's Competitive Secret: Utilizing Women as a Management Strategy"

Elisa Rothstein:  creator, producer of TV series "Women: Stories of Passion"

Nina Sadowsky   partner with Meg Ryan in film company Prufrock Pictures
 
 

*-sites:
 

Center for Creative Leadership

Choose to Lead   Oxygen TV / oxygen.com - "an on-air, online, and grassroots campaign to increase the number of women
serving in representative leadership positions."

Wf360     "develops unique, multi-media, year-round programming content that showcases the future of business as seen through the valuable, life-changing insights of extraordinary women leaders, while providing interaction among those leaders and a global audience.
 
 

 
*--articles:
 

Warrior Women On Screen by Douglas Eby

When Ordinary People Achieve Extraordinary Things - by Jody Williams
I believe it is possible for ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things. For me, the difference between an "ordinary" and an "extraordinary" person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all... When I was approached with the idea of trying to create a landmine campaign, we were just three people in a small office... The landmine campaign is not just about landmines -- it's about the power of individuals to work with governments in a different way.

Women in Film: Identity and Power  by Douglas Eby

Women Of Talent - Power and Leadership  by Douglas Eby
  

Some who are called to adventure choose to go. Others may wrestle for
years with fearfulness and denial before they are able to transcend that fear.

We tend to deny our destiny because of our insecurity, our dread of ostracism,
our anxiety, and our lack of courage to risk what we have. Down deep we know
that to cooperate with fate brings great personal power and responsibility.

If we engage our destiny, we are yielding to the design of the universe,
which is speaking through the design of our own person.

In the face of refusal, we continue our restlessness, and then, as if from nowhere,
comes the guide: something or someone to help us toward the threshold of adventure.

This may take the form of voices within or people who guide us to see the way.

...Joseph Jaworski.  Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
 

....related pages:.......anxiety..........courage

............self-esteem / self concept..........vocation / calling

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"A charismatic person is one blessed with grace given by the Gods...Charisma may fall on anyone,
even on those in whom the ability to lead and to bear authority are woefully absent, thereby deceiving
followers who cannot distinguish mastery from magic"   

James Hillman - from his book Kinds of Power

 
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**Jennifer James. --Thinking in the Future Tense

The book identifies eight leadership skills to facilitate the understanding and adaptation to change,
and to develop visionary thinking:

1 Perspective -- sort out the positive and negative aspects of a situation helps us see and understand the future. Be aware of current trends and know how to adapt and lead them. Use intuition and imaginationto begin the process of creating.

2 Pattern Recognition -- look for trends. Clues are found in ideas, sequences of events, or forms of behavior that have economic, social or political implications. Look for connections between seemingly unrelated events or things.

3 Cultural Knowledge -- be aware of myths and symbols of a culture. Art is an out picturing of truths that lie beneath the surface of awareness. What are the artist and poets telling us? They are the intuitive messengers of future scenarios. Look for the symbols that foretell change. Growing interest in the arts (more people in many U.S. cities attend cultural events than sporting events) points the way to a cultural renaissance.

4 Flexibility -- learn to adapt to change. Focus on the target not the problem. Be willing to let go of the old structures of the hierarchy. Allow an open flow of information and ideas throughout the organization.

5 Vision -- see the foundation of how we live and work

6 Energy -- feel aliveness, through trust, communications, continuous learning, the power of knowledge. We generate energy through creativity, spirituality, nurturing relationships and finding a balance of work, play, healthy living, and family.

7 Intelligence -- learn to integrate creativity and logic. Imagining future scenarios and forecasting. Developing whole-brain thinking and recognizing the value different kinds of intelligences i.e., verbal/linguistic, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial and body/kinesthetic.

8 Global Values -- being a global citizen, able to move easily among countries, currencies, languages and customs.

  [review by Linda Naiman of Creativity at Work creativityatwork.com]

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