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Fresh Insights From Barry Oshry
THE WITCHES BREW
adapted
from
LEADING SYSTEMS:
LESSONS FROM THE POWER LAB
The Secret Formula For Waking At Night With
Brilliant Thoughts and Strategies for
Improving Your Condition In The Organization
And The Organization Itself
Caution: If sleep is more important to you than power, read no
further. The Witches Brew is powerful medicine. It may take between
three and five wake-ups in a single night for the best strategies to
fall into place. Do not mix with alcohol.
The Ingredients
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CENTRALITY. |
Be
very clear that you are a central player in your organization. You
can make a difference. The fact is you already do make a difference...as
much by the things you don't do as by the ones you do. Your choice
is only about the size and quality of the difference to make. (Conversely,
the secret to sound sleep is to convince yourself that others are
the central players, not you.)
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| 2.
RESPONSIBILITY. |
Be
very clear that you should make a difference in this organization.
Not as a burden to be suffered, but as a challenge to be welcomed.
(Usually we think that only the Tops are responsible. That kind
of thinking allows us to sleep through the night.)
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| 3.
SYSTEM SIGHT. |
See
the system as a whole. What is ITs current condition? How did IT
get there? What's missing in IT? Where does IT need to go now?
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| 4.
SYSTEM SENSE. |
Know
that the system passes through you. your feelings are a reflection
of IT. Your anxiety or apathy or feelings of incompetence may be
less a message about you than about IT and your relationship to
IT. Change IT by changing your relationship to IT. You get better.
IT gets better.
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| 5.
WILL. |
When
the strategy falls into place (4 AM is a good time), you will recognize
it as just the right move to make. All that is left is your willingness
to move past your internal barriers to power -- your fears, your
resistance, your resignation -- and do it. |
More
Insights From Barry Oshry In Our Archives
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The Case of The Unfairly
Judged Professor
Only Connect
A Systems View of
Performance Evaluation
Sound of The Old Dance
Shaking
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