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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Discipline, Discipline, Discipline...
Check these websites out:
Monday, November 2, 2009
Organizations all over
We are all different... emotions play a huge factor in this!
First of all i would like to say I am sorry, I posted this on a different website. I was able to get this back on this website! So sorry for the delay :)
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Groups... why are they all the rage?
The solution to this problem is to associate groups to only positive things and therefore allow for the negative factors of a group to be called something else. But calling the group of a gang something else will not change their negative ways. In order to change the negative groups into what something positive is going to take some sort of miracle because with the group they are in they have an invicible mentallity. Somehow the government will have to take the gangs out and show them who is boss. There is no need for more negativity in the world, but for now all we can do is research and analyze how to get to the center of these negative groups and from there take action; see also www. gripe4rkids.org and ojjdp.ncjrs.org/programs/antigang/index.html
Monday, September 14, 2009
Leadership Program in our University... we could be great?!?
In the book “Good to Great”, by Jim Collins, he says that “good is the enemy of great”. There are certain factors that enable a good organization or company to become a great organization or company. With the backbone of our Leadership organization gone, we no longer have the structure to allow us to further ourselves to become that great organization. We may have the potential, but as of right now there are no resources or personnel available to help us reach our full potential. As of right now there is one instructor that has filled the position, but they have not taken advantage of their position, nor has she enforced the well known rules of our community. Dr. T established, according to Collins, the “First who… then what”; he claims that a great leader will “first get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats- and then they figured out where to drive it.” Dr. T took the time to use a specialized selection process to screen the applicants of the Residential Leadership Community. Another aspect that Dr. T constructed so eloquently was “a culture of discipline”, Collins states that “when you have disciplined people, you don’t need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don’t need bureaucracy. When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great performance. As of right now all of the leadership positions that Dr. T was capable of controlling under the title of being director of the Residential Leadership Community, have been delegated to the upper classmen of the program. Without the right amount of structure and pushing from the authoritative head that is the director of the program. A title is not just a title, one must live up to that title and be the one that pushes everyone involved with that particular organization to become better and allow the organization to grow and prosper.
More of these leadership styles can be seen in, and connected to Collins “Good to Great” and The Residential Leadership Community of this University…
Links:
www.rlc.idst.vt.edu/
www.pamplin.vt.edu/leadership/annualreport.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_to_Great
http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2009/09/7-reasons-why-i-wrote-7-lessons-for.html
http://stevefarber.com/extremeleadership/