tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.comments2011-03-17T02:08:03.796+13:00TutaetokoTutaetoko (Steve B)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04710409079069573959noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-75901102316900371302011-03-17T02:08:03.796+13:002011-03-17T02:08:03.796+13:00Awesome insight here Steve, great post! Thanks x
...Awesome insight here Steve, great post! Thanks x<br /><br />Not unlike one of my favorite of my Dad's quotes which has been referred to a bit since he died.. in an interview he was asked, 'what truly makes a great leader?' he answered- "be authentic, the real you... don't act cause you will be caught out. understand that leadership is about 'people and relationships', invest time to 'clarify, communicate & align', be self-confident & humble, not arrogant. Understand the 'big' picture & don't sweat the small stuff" xjezzieannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01546328540308906533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-51809203833492240082010-12-13T10:10:03.021+13:002010-12-13T10:10:03.021+13:00Good to know you've been thinking in parallel ...Good to know you've been thinking in parallel Richard. Parables are a powerful communication tool. I encourage you to widen the conversation.<br /><br />SteveTutaetoko (Steve B)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04710409079069573959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-35434818177089428062010-12-13T00:49:44.748+13:002010-12-13T00:49:44.748+13:00That's very good, and I welcome this challenge...That's very good, and I welcome this challenge.<br /><br />I've been thinking along parallel lines - but at a much lower level than you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-57143013427371899392010-12-11T07:48:05.410+13:002010-12-11T07:48:05.410+13:00II totally agree Geoff. That’s been my experience ...II totally agree Geoff. That’s been my experience too, and that of education innovators most everywhere judging by conversations I had over the years. <br /><br />The market is intensely conventional on both the supplier and buyer sides and inside the institution too. To successfully develop and market an innovative programme we have to attend to all three aspects, and to manage that process we need to attend simultaneously to all five of Steve Denning’s basic shifts. <br /> <br />Clearly that will require a collaboration of diverse perspective, knowledge, and personality. The University can’t do that on its own because it contains a limited range of perspective, knowledge and personality. <br /> <br />Lifting the expectations of the buyer market - the employers - is part of the marketing problem. Their expectations, based on their own education experience, tend unsurprisingly to be limited. One way to lift their expectations is to engage them in the transformation project. That way they become the project’s avid advocates and they bring their strengths to the collaboration. <br /><br />Lifting the expectations of the “supplier” market means engaging parents and school teachers as well as children in experiencing transformed education process. <br /><br />Shifting the internal institutional market means engaging with colleagues to experience, rather than argue or debate transformed education process. <br /> <br />This looks and feels like a huge job. It is. It requires radically different management and crucially, opportunity. If, in the wake of the GFC we have that opportunity then we must seize it, together. <br /><br />Yes it’s a chicken-and-egg situation, having to do everything at once: learning to collaborate, when we have scant experience of collaborating, to solve a problem that we haven’t encountered before to reach an emergent conclusion. <br /><br />But hey, that’s the way little kids learn; the way all new learning happens. Our barrier is the way we manage the process. I reckon we can change that.Tutaetoko (Steve B)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04710409079069573959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-84352840659161782092010-12-11T01:16:17.601+13:002010-12-11T01:16:17.601+13:00Congratulations on a great piece, but I believe yo...Congratulations on a great piece, but I believe you are missing a fundamental part of the equation. Potential employers must also embrace this approach and trust the educators.<br /><br />In 2005 at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, we completely redesigned the communications degree, creating a Values Based degree, we believe the first values based communications degree in the world. <br /><br />However despite an excellent record in producing first class graduates and one of the highest employment direct from graduation rates in Australia for any degree, the department was soon under immense pressure to focus the degree back on employment skills. As a result, some of the elements of the degree we created have now been lost, though much that was good still remains.<br /><br />Students continually hear from employers that they have to be able to write. They are forced through employment practices and approaches to focus on sharpening their practical, mechanical skills. Universities need considerable support from the private sector and potential employers. Staff turnover and the desire to employ staff with extensive practitioner experience results in bringing back the former approaches.<br /><br />It all results in this being the classic chicken and egg scenario. Change needs to come through education, but needs to be accepted and reflected in industry.<br /><br />Our experience is that once employed, the employers do marvel at how good the graduates are. But first comes the tricky bit of getting the graduates employed and with so much tertiary competition, this becomes a major concern for students in selecting which University they will choose.<br /><br />RMIT University was only able to do as it did because of a long history of achievement and close ties to industry. It is much harder to achieve that on a broad scale.<br /><br />All the best,<br />Geoff BarbaroUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931195345698634632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-40036107316777793162010-12-08T18:24:27.407+13:002010-12-08T18:24:27.407+13:00I have long asserted that businesses in New Zealan...I have long asserted that businesses in New Zealand are over-managed and under-led. Consequently, it is time we shifted the emphasis from an outdated concept that attempts to treat widely variable individuals as though they were all identical (bureaucracy) to a system that enables individuals to make maximum use of their talents and abilities. This approach will lead to a far greater contribution to overall wealth and well-being.<br /><br />Dictated to Peter MELLALIEU by Alastair EMERSONPeter J MELLALIEUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998721807577181794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-21002337062542237322010-12-08T14:13:34.555+13:002010-12-08T14:13:34.555+13:00A commendable piece of writing. I can't wait t...A commendable piece of writing. I can't wait to start implementing your proposals in my teaching.Peter J MELLALIEUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08998721807577181794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-35879956225700683332010-02-14T09:47:06.366+13:002010-02-14T09:47:06.366+13:00So the image becomes one of generalised impression...So the image becomes one of generalised impressions, imaginings, fears and hopes played out, and their reality glimpsed, resolved then frozen with crystalline clarity, by a photographer influenced by a shared bottle of Chard Farm “The Viper” Pinot Noir.Tutaetoko (Steve B)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04710409079069573959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-74340788464803774022010-02-14T08:41:53.317+13:002010-02-14T08:41:53.317+13:00The thought of photographic clarity challenges me,...The thought of photographic clarity challenges me, Steve. The camera manipulates, the camera lies, and yet the camera captures what we can often not see ourselves. "In vino veritas" maybe,but "in camera veritas" - I'm not so sure ...Sandy Millarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08806247912982660766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-38038201168437337282010-01-07T14:58:06.602+13:002010-01-07T14:58:06.602+13:00Steve....it does not get better than this. Holiday...Steve....it does not get better than this. Holidays in the bush are priceless and likewise good friends and simplicity.<br /><br />KendallAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-76372713296256405872009-12-20T12:21:19.464+13:002009-12-20T12:21:19.464+13:00Steve,
I really enjoyed this Blog. I hear what yo...Steve,<br /><br />I really enjoyed this Blog. I hear what you are saying and make the following observations. Unfortunately management suffer the same weaknesses of all people. Comfort from doing what they know, using familiar and safe systems/ways etc.<br /><br />There is also an element of "state of mind". It has been a hard year, tough in business, full of negative media (always takes a toll on even the most positive.<br /><br />Have a relaxing Christmas and I look forward to more of your writing in the new year.<br /><br />KendallAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-32770830110397941712009-11-24T17:25:04.533+13:002009-11-24T17:25:04.533+13:00Good article. I don't have the technical backg...Good article. I don't have the technical background in this like you but from my experience some work places are pretty septic. <br /><br />KendallAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-43978489460320538142009-11-23T19:06:31.796+13:002009-11-23T19:06:31.796+13:00Good insight. Perhaps it's due to people givi...Good insight. Perhaps it's due to people giving abusive people power over them, which encourages abusive people and it snowballs? I agree with your thought that organizational ethos are top-down, largely because an employee has very limited power in vertically-organized companies. Abusive people also have no problems taking advantage of nice folks, so many times, they gain ascendency in organizations that value greed over all else. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts and following your blog.<br />Cheers!<br />- JerrJerr Dunlaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14524412847339369083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-81229145656736638132009-11-16T18:01:32.383+13:002009-11-16T18:01:32.383+13:00Steve this was a great post. Like you the "wo...Steve this was a great post. Like you the "workplace Bully" is ever present in most organisations and it takes a bit of tough love to deal with them and the issues they can cause. I wrote a piece about the subject too which i invite you to read. http://buildingpeoplenz.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-to-make-bully-cry.html. KendallSouthern Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04834435724738815916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-18991658705238566302009-11-11T10:17:00.172+13:002009-11-11T10:17:00.172+13:00Well put Steve and I agree with you wholeheartedly...Well put Steve and I agree with you wholeheartedly - although I don't know that I would have thought it myself so thank you!<br />Jill - small town KiwiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-19686064779366631672009-10-28T19:00:04.428+13:002009-10-28T19:00:04.428+13:00Good Story Steve. I can understand why a team acce...Good Story Steve. I can understand why a team accepts challenge that push their limits. It is all about living life and there is nothing more satisfying than being physically challenged and part of a successful team of people.Southern Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04834435724738815916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-66710160770938768472009-08-09T10:11:12.541+12:002009-08-09T10:11:12.541+12:00Yeah Lisa. Senge's the seminal writer there.
...Yeah Lisa. Senge's the seminal writer there. <br /><br />Managerialist control is still very pervasive but there are some signs in SME's and even a few large orgs that I work with of inquisitiveness for alternatives and even action!Tutaetoko (Steve B)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04710409079069573959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-81053422815785702522009-08-09T10:07:45.485+12:002009-08-09T10:07:45.485+12:00Thanks for the tip Peter. You'll see that I pi...Thanks for the tip Peter. You'll see that I pick this up in future posts.Tutaetoko (Steve B)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04710409079069573959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-10553692960818024652009-07-21T19:12:38.011+12:002009-07-21T19:12:38.011+12:00O’Toole and Bennis' call for candour and cultu...O’Toole and Bennis' call for candour and culture is nothing new; Senge was talking about leadership and candour in The Fifth Discipline (1990). I'd suggest the challenge still remains the exucution of candour. I concur that the need for candour is no greater than now. Instead of maintaining (or worse, reverting back to) managerialist assrtions of 'control' managers/business owners might find candour with peers and staff empowers individuals to reconcile the dire consequences that some find their organizations in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-74185473431366102352009-06-11T11:14:37.921+12:002009-06-11T11:14:37.921+12:00It's interesting to contrast high performing t...It's interesting to contrast high performing teams with high performing organisations. Have you read any of Weick's work on the latter?Peter Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14693310928936492868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-36494168601960718942009-06-03T01:50:39.061+12:002009-06-03T01:50:39.061+12:00Love your post. Love this point: "In truth, vital ...Love your post. Love this point: "In truth, vital community and vital business depend on kindness, thoughtfulness, helpfulness, openness, and forgiveness". And then you follow that great point with our need to unlearn our industrial age education system of tidy rows and tidy thoughts. <br /><br />Thanks for the link.Zane Safrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02160430739365771085noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-1504085876973717272009-06-01T20:47:08.706+12:002009-06-01T20:47:08.706+12:00Very true.Very true.Andrew is getting fithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12509663563205981548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4501361821822541099.post-46769586103584065112009-05-10T03:11:00.000+12:002009-05-10T03:11:00.000+12:00This comment has been removed by the author.Stephen Lynch 's bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02747246071600721669noreply@blogger.com