E-Book, Englisch, 332 Seiten, E-Book
Reihe: Haufe Fachbuch
The Jedi Path to Agile Mastery
E-Book, Englisch, 332 Seiten, E-Book
Reihe: Haufe Fachbuch
ISBN: 978-3-648-12150-4
Verlag: Haufe
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Agility is now the name of the game. Developing one's leadership skills to match this requirement, and to not only surmount the challenges posed by the VUCA world but do so in a mature and authentic way, is what this book is all about. It gently submerges the reader into an impressive tank of knowledge that the authors, experts in the field of personal development, have amassed during their careers. Psychology, mythology and examples of real-life enterprises are accompanied by the excellent analogy of one of our best-known heroes, Luke Skywalker of the Star Wars films, to illustrate that there is nothing to fear, that we all have the potential to act courageously.
At regular intervals throughout the book, the reader is presented with thought-provoking questions and statements, the answers to which will help them eventually resurface with a clear picture of how to use their skills and talents to motivate themselves and others to proceed wisely in the corporate landscape.
Contents:
- An expert guide from three vastly experienced and accomplished executive coaches
- Learn effectively at your own pace, any time and anywhere
- Convincing background knowledge and examples
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Prologue
Management - Preparation for the Way of the Jedi
- Business as usual
- A new hope
- Call from unknown
- Meeting the mentor
- Leadership tools of a Jedi
- Resistance is futile
- Let go!
Transformation - Becoming a Jedi
- Consolidation and discovery
- The Force is strong in this one!
- Where there is light, there is also shadow
- Do. Or do not. There is no try!
- The darkest moment
- Renewal of the commitment
- The acid test
Transpersonal Leadership - The Order of the Jedi
- Of managers and transpersonal leaders
- Living integrity
- The quaternity principle
- The imperial side of the Force
- In the light of the rebellion
Epilogue - The Master of Two Worlds
Appendix
Overview of the Star Wars episodes I-VI
Acknowledgement to the English version
Literature and further reading
1 Part 1 Management - Preparation for the Way of the Jedi
Leadership in a VUCA world consists of three stages with the ultimate goal being the development into a mature authentic leader. The Jedi way starts with solid management, then building skills to initiate and successfully provide support for innovation and change processes and finally the development of what we call a top manager. A top manager in this sense is a personally mature human being with deep experience, solidly anchored in his own calling and ready to support others in their work. He is always looking for further personal development opportunities, leading the organisation into the future with stability and agility, while always keeping the whole of society and the global economic dependencies in mind. In this first part you will learn the foundations for the aspiring Jedi. These are tasks that a confident manager needs to master: clear goal setting, careful execution planning, delegation and negotiation. Tools that you need to deliver solid results. Through exercises and questions we will prompt you to explore your basic assumptions, become familiar with the management tools of a Jedi and experience what Jedi masters like Obi-Wan Kenobi or Master Yoda mean by mentoring. The Star Wars saga will function as an analogy to the challenges of modern managers. We will use it as the backdrop for your development path from manager to mentor. To this end we will combine aspects from mythology, psychology and management theory to create an adventure of personal maturation. The structure of the three stages of development, from manager to mentor, comprises the different phases of the hero’s journey that we also see in the Star Wars movies: departure (management) - initiation (reconnect to your potential) - integration (leading and mentoring). We accompany Luke Skywalker on his journey to becoming a Jedi and, through this, describe the different levels of guiding yourself and others in business. In each of the three parts you will encounter four „archetypes“, powerful universal themes or primal images. You can look at them as psychological apps that will help you solve developmental issues and leadership challenges or enhance your focus and action-capabilities of your leadership software. In this first part we will describe the following four archetypes: the optimist, the companion, the warrior and the caregiver. The combined qualities of these four archetypes are the foundation of solid management practice. However, they will only show their full potential when you also acknowledge the negative manifestations of these archetypes. Otherwise it might come to a „system crash“. And this is where the adventure of the art of leadership of a Jedi starts: do you follow the light or rather the dark side of the Force? Overview of the development in three phases. Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Level of development Manager Transformer Leader Leadership model Transactional Transrational Transpersonal System Mechanical Biological Transformative Leadership task Goal setting Explore Renew Control Create Transcendent Goals Stability Sensitivity Agility Perfection Free the potential Fit Control Creativity Relationship Focus Outcome Progress Interdependence Star Wars Aspiring Jedi Jedi Padawan Jedi Master Hero’s Journey Preparation Initiation Integration Archetypes Optimist Seeker Ruler Companion Decision Maker Magician Warrior Lover Sage Caregiver Creator Jester Psychology (C. G. Jung ) Stabilizing of Self Individuation Ego-Self-Reunion Dimension of Meaning Outer Inner Ultimate Activity Do Becoming Be Image 2: Luke Skywalker’s stages of the hero’s journey 1.1 Business as usual
Star Wars is science fiction, adventure, mythology, far away in another time, and is set in another galaxy. Nevertheless, Star Wars also exactly matches the world you live in. Already the famous opening of the movie, the text slowly rolling away from you into space, gives you an idea of the movie’s fundamental conflict4. You immediately get the impression that there is a glimmer of hope in the midst of this conflict of galactic proportions. We have civil war, a rebellion, spaceships, an evil empire, spies, secret plans, an utterly deadly weapon the size of a star, dark agents and a princess who wants to save her people and restore peace. Then two droids emerge, one in humanoid form, the other more cylindrically shaped, both of whom appear substantially more human than many others we will encounter in the story. The Stormtroopers of the Empire are masked and without expression, whereas the Rebels’ faces are visible and express fear and tension. At this point in the story the imagery is largely black and white, the gracious Princess Leia in white and the anti-hero, the dark lord, Darth Vader, in black. At the outer level, Star Wars here tells the story of general conflicts and the state of our current society: the dominance and rule of the patriarchate which, in a massive all-powerful star ship, attacks the small Rebel ships, which are a symbol of a process-oriented and vibrant social system. On the inner - psychological - level the story is about the over-emphasis of the conscious, reason, outward focus and control over the unconscious5 (the intuitive, introspective and multifaceted aspects of our lives) - in other words, a world where ratio has gained an unhealthy dominance over intuition. This imbalance can also be found in the well-known economic institutions of our professional world. Many organisations still insist that the causes and solutions of their problems can be found somewhere out there. These organisations subconsciously project their unresolved conflicts and difficulties on their staff, partners or clients. They look for answers to questions like, „how do we become more important and more effective,“ in the outer world. They forget to take the inner dimension, the human dimension, into account. The leaders of these organisations, both men and women, defend a lopsided collection of beliefs, in the form of lists of prescriptions and prohibitions, to somehow ensure growth and survival of the organisation. Interpersonal relationships are represented by organisational charts, and steady economic growth is seen as a suitable long-term strategy for society. This represents a Newtonian model of linearity, simple cause and effect relationships and reductionist logic, so well known in our technological society. This mental model is based on the idea that only one view is the correct view. It tries to ignore the other side of our reality: complex dynamic relationships and interconnections, endless variations, diversity and synchronicity - the VUCA world. Important The drama of what we term the modern times is that our naive rationalism does not take into account the complex reality that we have created. We think that the world can be understood; that everything can be planned and categorised. Using numbers and statistics we try to control the world. We have forgotten that our world is full of mysteries that we may never understand completely. In the past, all cultures had useful teachings about the divine to which we ceded a part of our power to protect us from overestimating ourselves and our abilities. In this way, self-organizing and self-regulating principles could unfold themselves without our interference. Today our destiny is controlled by...
