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Eugene Eric Kim
Here’s my writeup about the power workout from the previous bootcamp. It includes the video I mentioned last week on power poses from Amy Cuddy:
http://changemakerbootcamp.com/2013/07/02/observations-on-power-dynamics/
It’s interesting to compare the reactions to 12 Angry Men of the last set of bootcampers to the current set. Fodder for a future conversation (and blog post)!
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Eugene Eric Kim
This isn’t the favorite thing I’ve read by Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert), but there’s a section of the article that sort of reminds me of @eugenechan’s personal project of going from a task-orientation to a process-orientation:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626104579121813075903866
Throughout my career I’ve had my antennae up, looking for examples of people who use systems as opposed to goals. In most cases, as far as I can tell, the people who use systems do better. The systems-driven people have found a way to look at the familiar in new and more useful ways.
To put it bluntly, goals are for losers. That’s literally true most of the time. For example, if your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you will spend every moment until you reach the goal—if you reach it at all—feeling as if you were short of your goal. In other words, goal-oriented people exist in a state of nearly continuous failure that they hope will be temporary.
If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize that you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction. Your options are to feel empty and useless, perhaps enjoying the spoils of your success until they bore you, or to set new goals and re-enter the cycle of permanent presuccess failure.
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Rebecca
I’d love to have a conversation about this. I heard him on NPR, and was intrigued. It’s also challenging, as I find goals really helpful for me in succeeding using a process (systems) orientation. I’m trying to be open-minded, while recognizing that by some interpretations this could challenge some core assumptions of how I do my work. I recognize he’s talking about individuals, not groups…
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Eugene Eric Kim
Next time I see you, I’ll bring the current Rockwood Leadership Institute strategy (which unfortunately is not available from their website). They’ve declared a “nature-driven” approach to strategy. I think it’s a bit overstated — it’s very similar to how we do strategy —but I think it’s a nice piece of work and worthy of examination.
On a related note, you should think seriously about doing Rockwood! You could talk more with @renee about this, but I think the timing would be really good for you. @lauren did Rockwood on @renee’s recommendation, and I think she had a great experience.
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Eugene Eric Kim
Thanks again for a great power workout yesterday, and welcome Dana and @brooking! The power framework I mentioned in our discussion is by David Kantor. My ex-colleague, Kristin Cobble, wrote an excellent blog post about his work at:
http://groupaya.net/blog/2012/01/david-kantor-the-secret-life-of-groups/
He’s also written a book about his work:
- http://amzn.to/19IzPBh (hard cover)
- http://amzn.to/1aNfvi9 (Kindle)
If any of you have resources to share, please add them in the comments!
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Brooking
Hi everyone – Brooking here, new addition to the group. Yesterday definitely stirred the pot for me in my thinking about power (personal reflections forthcoming), and I wanted to share the main camps of influence on the topic for me. First, academic organizational behavior research, specifically French and Raven’s (1950) distinction of 5 types of power:
legitimate (i.e. role based)
coercive (ability to punish)
reward (ability to reward)
referent (i.e. charisma based)
expert (i.e. knowledge based)That’s just a taste of one way to categorize types of power, and I can share a nerdy academic piece that digs into this more if anyone is interested, or a quick google search would probably give you more to dig into.
Secondly, I really like Arnold Mindell’s “process work” approach to facilitation w/ awareness of power dynamics. He’s got a great discussion of social rank and implicit power in his book Sitting in the Fire, which is about using conflict to create connection in groups. He has dealt with some INTENSELY heated power dynamic situations with incredible grace, and in my experience with process work it makes power dynamics really explicit in a way that often actually increases connection.
http://www.amazon.com/Sitting-Fire-Transformation-Conflict-Diversity/dp/1887078002/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381975092&sr=1-1&keywords=sitting+in+the+fire -
Eugene Eric Kim
Thanks for sharing these, @brooking! All of this also reminded me of an upcoming workshop (November 6) on power dynamics being hosted by the Leadership Learning Community, a wonderful Oakland-based organization on whose board I serve. It’s called a Star Power Workshop, it’s being facilitated by Dave Nakashima, and it’s supposed to be amazing:
http://leadershiplearning.org/blog/llc-staff/2013-10-08/register-bay-area-learning-circle-star-power
Have any of you heard of the Star Power exercise? I was told not to Google it in advance, as it is supposed to be a much better exercise when you come to it cold. If any of you would like to participate, I’d encourage you to register quickly, as they’re expecting to sell out quickly. It costs $20.
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Eugene Eric Kim
A lot of you have asked for more information on designing and facilitating online processes. My friend, Tim Bonnemann, is co-organizing an online unconference next week covering exactly that. It’s free to participate:
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Eugene Eric Kim
Hi everyone! I’m starting to pull together materials to prepare for the next bootcamp. It’s been a great excuse for me to package and publish some of my templates for designing meetings. I’m starting with a simple one, a checklist for finding meeting locations. (As you all know from my adventures in tracking down a bootcamp location, this one’s tough!)
Here’s the checklist:
I’d love to know if you find this useful, and if you think there are things that are missing or incorrect. Let me know. Thanks!
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Anna
This is a great checklist and resource. Thank you for including an amazing set of instructions. Super helpful!
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Eugene Eric Kim
Here’s @anna341bc talking about doing bootcamp twice in a row:
http://changemakerbootcamp.com/2013/08/01/exit-interview-anna-castro/
Thank you all for taking the time to do these! You can see the whole series at:
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Eugene Eric Kim
Amy Wu, the creative force behind the Changemaker Bootcamp logo and website, also has excellent taste in clothing:
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jessausinheiler
I definitely want a shirt. Sign me up!
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Eugene
You’ll definitely get one! And +1 for being the first of the new bootcampers to participate on the water cooler!
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Eugene Eric Kim
Here’s Amy L. sporting some fine fashion.
Video coming soon!
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Eugene
As promised, here’s her video!
http://changemakerbootcamp.com/2013/07/29/amy-luckeys-exit-interview/
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Anna
I rocked my Changemaker Bootcamp shirt this weekend and it was a great opportunity to practice talking about Bootcamp with family members who were curious about it. Most have a hard enough time understanding the kind of work I’m involved in and describing Bootcamp to folks provided me with a different way to share what I’ve been up to.
Not only is the shirt a great conversation piece, it’s super comfy!
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Eugene
Love it! I want to see pictures next time, though. 🙂
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Eugene Eric Kim
More exit interviews! This time, it’s @lauren’s turn.
http://changemakerbootcamp.com/2013/07/26/lauren-rodriguezs-exit-interview/
Brooking is discussing. 
Eugene Eric Kim and 
Rebecca are discussing. 
Anna is discussing. 
jessausinheiler are discussing. 
Brooking 2:45 pm on October 30, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Just now realizing this had me no longer receiving emails letting me know of new posts so I’ve missed all the juice of this last week! catching up…will adjust my settings, you might want to let others know they have to do that too.