[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Information
- From: "Pam Stoesser" <pkstoesser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <d_fritsche@xxxxxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:28:01 -0500
I think this is nicely put, Dave.
One of the things that I learned during my 30+ years in corporate America,
is that no one (individual or group) always makes the correct decision.
Decisions are based on the best information you have at the time. Often a
very bad decision is later found to be lack of information - not available
at the time or someone either chose not to share it or wasn't given the
opportuntity to do so.
If you wait until all the information is available, you will never make a
decision which can have worse consequences.
Proverbs says "Look before you leap" and "He who hesitates is lost". Both
are sound advice. Wisdom lies in know which of these to apply in a given
circumstance.
Pam
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Fritsche" <d_fritsche@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 7:18 PM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Information
>I sometimes don't wade into the heat of battle, but wait for a less
> impassioned time..... Not everyone does!!! <G>
>
> I have an opinion that is worth exactly what you will pay for it, and if
> you disagree, I will pay for it in hate mail! But here goes anyway....
>
> Information gives us a definition of the content of issues that face us.
> It also provides a context to that definition to give it direction. It
> also defines action for that direction and gives me power over my life.
>
> Yes, information is power.
>
> To restrict the flow of information is to reserve power to one's self. The
> presumption often is that by managing information I reserve power and keep
> others from attacking me. But that is seldom the end result.
>
> There are two management positions one can take in life in leadership.
> One, to manage information so it does the most good for me and to see that
> information is does not damage me or create confusion.
>
> The other role is to see leadership as a servant role, in which my goal is
> not to maintain power but to give it away. In this model, information is
> given freely without reserve so that others are empowered by it and given
> the respect of dealing with the issues that confront them. This is the
> model of leadership that I prefer and I think adds to the people around us
> rather than demeans them.
>
> A pastor in our town came to me years back asking for advise. His
> congregation were livid with him. They were demanding an audit of the
> books and wanting to see records and so on! His defense was to challenge
> their right to see anything or to know anything or to..... and so the
> fight went.
>
> He asked me why I did not experience the same problems with my people. I
> explained that I posted the monthly financial statement on the bulletin
> board, made a clear statement that the books were open and so was my
> personal financial records and that there would be no secrets and no
> hidden information about the organization or its workings. We sent out
> bulletins weekly with a rumor column and my opinions on the stories and so
> on....
>
> End result, no one ever came to the board meeting but board members, no
> one ever looked at the books or cared. No one ever asked for more
> information that was provided but some did ask if we could use the
> information space more profitably for more interesting things.
>
> Principle: The more information is given the less will be required. The
> less information that is given the more suspicion will be raise -
> justified or not.
>
> Information by any means, email, fax, phone, letter, etc., etc., is not
> our enemy and does not turn people against us. Information empowers and
> that is the objective of those who lead - or should be.
>
> Yes, it can become mis-information when it is incomplete and emotionally
> charged. All the more reason to make it clear and to give more than is
> needed and required.
>
> OK, that's my thoughts - now shoot me! Oops, I mean shoot at me!
> Dave
>
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