[P2P-F] The New Workplace Reality Manifest - The Leadingship Approach

Tue Oct 11 20:17:50 CEST 2011

hi Rune,

the announcement is here at
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-equal-dignity-organization-the-workplace-with-balanced

and has been tweeted/facebooked ...

good to see you're keeping your focus ..

Michel

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Rune Kvist Olsen <rukvol at online.no> wrote:

>  Hello Michel,****
>
> ** **
>
> I just wonder if you have received this message I forwarded you last week.
> If so, do you think you could post it on your website, and pass it around to
> addicted peer to peer readers and viewers within your network?****
>
> ** **
>
> I will be looking forward to hear from you.****
>
> ** **
>
> Best****
>
> Rune****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> Hi,****
>
> ** **
>
> You will down below find an input that could be inspiring and enlightening
> in exploring and modernizing the work and art of leading, as an
> organizational form in structuring working processes in new and alternative
> ways. The intention with this mind setting impulse is to share a thought
> about application and usage of the fast growing dynamics among employees,
> which in its essence represents exceeding demands and expectations of change
> in the mindset of how humans are working and leading themselves and others.
> The role of leading in the New Workplace Reality will signify *Equal
> Dignity* and *Mutuality* as core and key factors within the relationships
> between individual human beings in the workplace.****
>
> ** **
>
> The impuls of the Leadingship Approach states:****
>
> ** **
>
> *“The core principle of Leadingship is founded on our unconditional belief
> in our fellow human beings regarding their ability and capability in taking
> care of themselves and others. In practising Leadingship we acknowledge and
> support peoples pursuit for equal dignity and mutual trust. The consequence
> of this belief system is that everyone are leading one self and are making
> own personal decisions within their respective working area of
> responsibility. Leadingship is the individual process of exploring the
> essence of fellowship dynamics at work”, Rune Kvist Olsen 2011*
>
> * *
>
> Please enjoy this input! Feel free to make contact.****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> Sincerely ****
>
> Rune Kvist Olsen****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> *The Equal Dignity Organization – The Workplace with Balanced
> Relationships.  A vision of shared dynamic assets in structuring the
> distribution of power in organizational life.*
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> The working life of today is highly demanding for most of the employees in
> the working force. A counterbalance of an increasing demanding working life,
> is that more and more of the workers will be demanding a change in the
> traditional settings of structuring and organizing the workplace. The
> individual employee and the workforce as a collective power, will be
> requesting and expecting a working situation where the individual human
> being will be entitled to gain personal control over one owns work and
> working conditions, based on shared equality and mutuality.****
>
> ** **
>
> The “demanding” employee will in a lesser and lesser degree be relating to
> superior authorities as loyal and subservient subordinates, but in stead be
> seeking relationships with people that possess complementary and
> supplementary competencies (despite the position and rank the person might
> occupy in the organization). These consciousness workers will more and more
> search for workplaces that can provide 100 % independence (freedom) and
> responsibility (trust) as core values for themselves, in stead of being
> forced in turning to superior authorities for the making of necessary
> decisions concerning their processing of work. The employees need of having
> personal freedom to make own decisions and being trusted the responsibility
> in taking care of an individual part of work, will more and more emerge as
> one of the most valuable assets in modern work life for the individual human
> person.****
>
> ** **
>
> The claims from the workers towards the working society will embody a
> transfer of the power (the authority to make decisions) from superior
> authorities outside the individual person to the personal authority within
> the individual. This type of organizing of the workplace will be based upon
> the willpower and abilities embedded inside the individual human being, in
> taking independent and responsible decisions within ones own area of work in
> concert with equals.****
>
> ** **
>
> The vision behind this type of organizing the working processes, is that
> the power will be distributed on basis of the person, and not on the
> position. This structuring of power will confirm and secure that decisions
> are made on the basis of competence, and will consequently counteract
> decisions made on the basis of position and rank. Decisions made primarily
> on basis of position without sufficient and adequate competence, have in
> numerous of cases within the private and public sector of working life
> resulted in serious miscalculations and wrongdoings. Such misjudgements can
> easily end up dramatically and have fatal discrediting impacts on the
> legitimacy of the corporation in society. A competence-based organization
> will ensure the quality of the decision processes and not at least
> contribute to the keeping of qualified and competent employees. ****
>
> ** **
>
> The New Workplace Reality which is based on competence in the performance
> of leading at work, will by its essence exercise a significant attraction of
> power towards workers that are looking for individual freedom and mutual
> trust as the prime source in unfolding and unlashing their personalities
> together with others. The cooperation and interaction between the
> individuals on equal footing, will inevitably result in a natural
> realization of their own and others achievements, efforts and performances
> at work. Personal ability and capability appears as a manifestation of the
> interface between the factors “effort” and “performance”, where the
> arrangement of this interactive collaborative force is quite decisive for
> the ultimate result of the processing of work. Not at least can this way of
> structuring the processes of decision making and the work of leading, be
> preferred by the demanding generation of employees that will be dominating
> the workforce in the near future. When people will be entitled freedom and
> trust and that personal responsibility is ruled and governed through
> individual competence and inner authority, the individual human being will
> gain a natural disposition for this kind of workplace. The nature of
> Leadingship implies that the employees must be responsible for their own
> judgements and decisions. The person must *TAKE* responsibility for the
> processing of one owns work and the consequences of the result of the work.
> There will be will none who are ready to *GIVE* others responsibility for
> the work, and in that sense no one can take the credit or the blame for the
> result of others.****
>
> ** **
>
> The Workplace with Balanced Relationships where everyone are sharing equal
> value and worth, will have a need for people that are used to take
> responsibility for themselves and others. It takes time to transform the
> culture of the organization from the traditional structuring of power (with
> superiors and subordinates) to a structuring of power where everyone are
> entitled equal worthiness regarding personal freedom and mutual trust. It
> takes time to enable people to function, act and perform as equal members of
> the working community. People can only enable themselves in doing the work
> as sovereign individuals through a belief system that creates consciousness
> about the rights to act and behaves as peers, with the profound
> understanding that *the work and art of leading is to lead processes and
> not persons.* When the awareness and understanding about this way of
> structuring power and organizing the work of leading have matured in the
> minds of the people, the results of this mind setting will be sustainable in
> the way we perceive and conceive our sense of honour and responsibility at
> work.****
>
> ** **
>
> I am hoping that this request can provide some clues in developing a
> workplace where everyone is their own leader and no one is neither superior
> nor inferior towards each other. ****
>
> ** **
>
> Herby attached is a paper that can give a short introduction to the
> conceptualization of Leadingship. Should any one desire a more profoundly
> study of this subject, the following link will give access to the collection
> of The New Workplace Reality Series. The link is as follows;****
>
> *http://democratus.yolasite.com/avis.php*
>
> * *
>
> ** **
>
> Please make contact if you wish to explore this approach furher.****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> Regards****
>
> Rune Kvist Olsen****
>
> Design and implementation of the Equal Dignity Organization****
>
> rukvol at online.no****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>

-- 
P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net  - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net

Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss:
http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation

Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens;
http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.ourproject.org/pipermail/p2p-foundation/attachments/20111012/4da7b5ea/attachment.htm 