pheasant

strategy of the dolphin
2002-01-25 00:27:45 (UTC)

Horizons

I feel my horizons are expanding. The more I read and the
more I give myself time for reflection and self-analysis,
the more I can feel my mind being worked. Mental exercise
is both a very stimulating and rewarding activity but also
a very energy-consuming one. I have perhaps doubled my food
intake, and am sleeping less but deeper, feel tired in the
afternoons and early this week pushed myself too far and
got sick. On the bright side, I noticed my over excited
behaviour quickly and took time off work to recover and
reflect. And also this has happened before I actually start
studying as a quiet reminder that I will need to
concentrate on my health too. I am not invincible￾c a quite
smile comes to me thinking I thought I was. ￾gKnow thy
limits,￾h my father￾fs voice whispers in my mind.

Breakthroughs this week:

I can see that some of my excitement is infectious and
spreading to those around me. For example, my manager Yoko,
upon seeing how I performed the staff appraisals with my
team, used some of the ideas in her own appraisals with her
team￾fs members. I was extremely flattered and humbled by
this act of faith and encouraged by the fact that a person
whom I love dearly and respect and admire can learn
something from me. (Actually, upon further reflection,
although I don￾ft think the action was intentional on her
behalf, adopting ideas from employees is an excellent
management technique to inspire and motivate them: mental
note!.)

Concept of management by intention rather than management
by default. Upon deeper reading from Anderson Consulting
[Anderson: 1999], I can see now a large focus in change
management on personalities and people, specifically
behavioural analysis & organisational psychology. I
connected with the idea that many companies are managed by
default, ie run using the same defective behaviours people
learnt in their families. Managers acting as parents and
employees responding as children (stated in its most
simplest form). He strives for intentional management: an
ongoing process of self-monitoring and self-improvement,
aligning the needs of the employee with the needs of the
organisation and feedback without fear. He defines change
management as ￾gto influence or ￾echange￾f the organisation
and its employees behaviour when needed, in a direction
that in the short or long term, directly or indirectly,
increases profits (or in the case of non-profit
organisations, best use of available resources)￾h. This
reaffirms the niche that I wish to focus on in change
management and an area that I think I can morally and
ethically give my complete self to- change management for
organisations and communities. I especially liked his six
conditions for intentional management: open-mindedness,
self-acceptance and confidence, realism, freedom from
status mindedness, fairness, and friendliness. I would like
to add one more: integrity.

Dolphin Work

Lynch [1988:141-165] inspires me with his notion of
￾gvision building￾h and people￾fs ￾gtime horizon￾h. People
with a long time horizon are generally more successful in
business and also in life success. They have the ability to
see far into the future and envision where they are
heading, imagining more than one scenario and working
through the consequences of each of those scenarios in
order to determine which course of action is the best to
take. Letting the future determine the present. I love that
idea! How exciting and how limitless. Rather than let the
mistakes and set patterns of the past influence one￾fs
behaviour, let it be guided by vision and by dreams. Of
course, the past is also considered, but it is not the
driving factor. The ability to tolerate ambiguity places a
big part in determining one￾fs time horizon.

My personal purpose; to enrich my life and others￾f through
continual personal and professional development. I have not
defined ￾eothers￾f before, but now define those others as
the stakeholders in my life, those people around me that I
care deeply about. When asking myself also why I want to
enrich my life and others￾f, I wish to make an impact on my
world, to affect it in a positive way somehow, to give my
self a sense of self-worth, to be accepted as an integral
part, and to give myself purpose and meaning.
Materialistically and flippantly speaking, I see myself
making enough money to by a house somewhere close to nature
(beach or forest) and retire from making money for other
people and write, write, write.

Reframing of my personal purpose:
To enrich and create meaning and purpose in my life and the
life of those people dear to me through continual personal
and professional development and discovery.

My business purpose: to enrich my life and others￾f by
creating successes and achievements, helping myself and
others to succeed, to contribute to something greater than
myself, ie a collective of people within an organisation or
community. (wordy and wanky but it will do for now).

My chief values: help others to help myself, continual
change or learning is good; friends and family are
important; all people are intrinsically good, life is about
goal-setting and moving forward, a journey to peace of mind
and soul.

Primary stakeholders in my personal and professional life:
Jun, Bryan, Jonathan, Joan, Yoko, Peter, Tim, Melissa.

Finally my vision:
A newspaper report on the success of Patrick Pheasant, 2022.
Patrick, proud owner of a light and airy house by the sea,
is the successful author of international best seller
￾eFlight of Dreams￾f. He lives happily retired with his
partner Jun and their teenage son [how much fun is this!!!]
and their cat and dog. He writes poetry and inspirational
management books, lectures at university part-time on drama
and the human collective, runs wild-men and story-telling
workshops. He takes walks by the sea, naps and dreams
lazily in the afternoon, is wise and gentle and when he
smiles (which is a lot) his eyes twinkle with knowing, fond
memories and many many fruitful experiences. He has worked
in business and education for more than thirty years,
helped create meaning and purpose in those around him and
contributed to the healthy growth of those communities and
organisations he has worked with.




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