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October 1, 1999
FUTURAMA
Leaders Need New Focus for New
Millennium
Futurist says put past behind you.
Joel Barker's
lessons for next century leaders:
1. Focus the majority of your efforts on the future. Followers are
concerned about the present, but a leader's primary responsibility is
to find, recognize, and secure the future. A leader is someone you choose
to follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
2. Understand the nature of fundamental change. New paradigms show
up before you need them; outsiders are vital. New rules are usually formulated
by someone not part of the present, successful paradigm.
3. Appreciate complex systems and how they work. The smallest actions
can cause tremendous differences over a long period of time. Anticipate what
even tinkering will do.
4. Examine your leadership style to see how it affects productivity.
Two leader types, charismatic and bully, are determined by positive or negative
use of control and stress and by the measure of their followers'
satisfaction. Followers of positive leaders are up to twenty times more
effective. No matter how you measure it—making money, saving souls, educating
children, or protecting a nation—your leadership style affects your
group's productivity.
5. Create shared vision to build bridges to the future. People now
expect to have a voice in their future. Leading is about teams. Leaders build
bridges and encourage followers to join them on the journey across.
—from Leadershift: Five Lessons for Leaders in the 21st Century.
(Star Thrower, 800-727-2344)
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Photocopy bulletins for Jan. 1, 8, 15.
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Get out a big large print pulpit Bible
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Test projecting overheads by flashlight.
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Retrieve flannelgraph from attic.
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