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Brendan Murphy

Margaret J. Wheatley: Goodbye, Command and Control - 0 views

  • We sought prediction and control, and also charged leaders with providing everything that was absent from the machine: vision, inspiration, intelligence, and courage
  • productivity gains in truly self-managed work environments are at minimum thirty-five percent higher than in traditionally managed organizations
  • There is both a need to have more autonomy in one’s work, and strong evidence that such participation leads to the effectiveness and productivity we crave.
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  • We never effectively control people with these systems, but we certainly stop a lot of good work from getting done.
  • creating systems of relationships where all members of the system benefit from their connections.
  • People organize together to accomplish more, not less
  • Whenever we look at organizations as machines and deny the great self-organizing capacity in our midst, we, as leaders, attempt to change these systems from the outside in
  • Most of us know that as people drive to work they're wondering how they can get something done for the organization despite the organization
  • They are tinkering in their local environments, based on their intimate experience with conditions there and their tinkering shows up as effective innovation
  • solutions cannot be imposed; they have to remain local.
  • If people are clear about the purpose and true values of their organization, their individual tinkering will result in system wide coherence.
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      This is why we have to develop a clear and shared vision.
  • Clarity about who we are as a group creates freedom for individual contributions.
  • If conformity is the goal, it will kill local initiative.
  • People develop new levels of trust for one another that show up as more cooperation and more forgiveness
  • But you can't direct people into perfection; you can only engage them enough so that they want to do perfect work.
  • They need information, access to one another, resources, trust, and follow-through
  • Ultimately, we have to rely not on the procedure manuals, but on people’s brains and their commitment to doing the right thing.
  • the higher you are in the organization, the more change is required of you personally
  • Commitment and loyalty are essential in human relationships. So how can we pretend we don't need them at work?
  • Employability in lieu of mutual commitment is a cop-out.
Brendan Murphy

Expert Project Management - Can A Project Manager be a Servant Leader? A Reflective Cri... - 1 views

  • verbal and non-verbal signals
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Those cues that we can't see through email and im etc....
  • people
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Everyone is a person and has value. Similar to listening to those you wnat to silence or forming alliances with danger
  • make whole
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Something I would expect from the Dali Lama. when things are not working perhaps there is discord in the universe.
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  • disturber and an awakener.
  • integrated, holistic position
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Everything is connected, but you don't see that until you are woken from your slumber and can see the world for what it truely is.
  • persuasion
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Here we go with the persuasion again.
  • think beyond
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Kind of like seeing the big picture. or systems thinking.
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Ok this is just the systems thinking. how everything works together
  • consequence of a decision
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      This is thinking about renewal in the future.
  • commitment to serving
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      When you make the commitment you start building trust, when you have trust then the constitutents start to take on their own leadership role, not because you asked them, but because they want to for the good of the organization.
  • committed to the growth
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Like the learning organizations from the first reading this week. Jossey-Bass chapter 1
  • interest in the ideas and suggestions
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Listening to people has been a theme from GARdner
  • building community
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      The theme of all the leadership so far has been you do not get your authority from fiat, but rather you earn it or it is given to you by those you lead.
  • high trust level among employees gives an organization an agility
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Schools definately need the agility to change with the students needs.
Brendan Murphy

LEADERSHIP FOR THE 21st CENTURY: BREAKING THE BONDS OF DEPENDENCY - 1 views

  • there is no external answer that will substitute for the complex work of changing one's own situation.
  • It is one thing to say in most successful organizations members share a clear, common vision, which is true, but quite another to suggest that this stems primarily from direct vision-building, which is not. Vision-building is the result of a whole range of activities (pp. 208-209).
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      So the vision doesn't create a sense of team rather when you build a team a vision is created.
  • critical consumers
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  • 1.Respect those you want to silence. 2.Move toward the danger in forming new alliances. 3.Manage emotionally as well as rationally. 4.Fight for lost causes.
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Are these the four guidelines they were talking about in the introduction paragraph?
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      1. I think a strong leader is not afraid to listen to those who disagree with them. I think the strongest leader listens carefully and includes the best ideas. I don't think majority rule is always the best way to run things, I think going with what the group thinks is best but tempered by vocal minorities is the best way to run a group. It is certainly better than a dictatorship, even when the dictator is the smartest and most benevolant person in the room. 2. Akin to the first guideline forming alliances with people you want to stay away from is important. They will not work to sabotage your plans if they feel their feelings are being listened to and heard. People don't think they know everything, but they do think they should be heard. If a leader is one who is known for being able to work with new groups then I think new groups will be more willing to accept an offer or collaboration. 3. We cannot inspire people without a bit of passion. While some paths may seem like the most prudent financially, or whatever, in the end the only path that will work is the one that people support. Sometimes we have to be willing to break away from what we think is the best path in order to be successful on the most loved path. 4. Everyone loves an underdog. At least we do in this time and this place. Lost causes in education are usually the causes that will bring about the most dramatic change. I think most people see schools as getting the short end of the stick in most political arenas, thus we are one big lost cause.
  • create opportunities for learning from dissonance
  • high priority on reculturing
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      Hiring and or converting existing staff to work towards a common goal
  • Articulating and discussing hope
Brendan Murphy

Creating a Vision - 1 views

  • Once you have clarified your beliefs, build on them to define your mission statement which is a statement of purpose and function.
Brendan Murphy

ACOT2 - 1 views

  • A Culture of Innovation and Creativity
  • Ubiquitous Access to Technology
Brendan Murphy

Apple - ACOT2 - A Culture of Innovation and Creativity - 0 views

  • the answer lies instead in creating a culture that supports and advances innovation at its core.
    • Brendan Murphy
       
      STep 3 in CBAM managing everyting or getting organized so you can acomplish it all
Brendan Murphy

Type 4 - Learning at Home | NNPS - 0 views

  • How to help at home with homework
  • Regular schedule of interactive homework that requires students to demonstrate and discuss what they are learning in class
Brendan Murphy

Type 2 - Communicating | NNPS - 0 views

  • Beginning of School Year Cookout
  • Parent-Principal Coffees
  • Welcome Back Picnic
Brendan Murphy

Type 1 - Parenting | NNPS - 0 views

  • but also the content of that meeting to be viewed, heard, or read at convenient times and varied locations.
Brendan Murphy

Study: Leadership in school admins plays huge role in performance | Minnesota Public Ra... - 0 views

  • the people leading schools are more likely to affect student outcomes than other factors like poverty or geography.
  • schools shouldn't change principals just for the sake of change -- because turnover in leadership also hampers achievement.
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