{"id":353,"date":"2011-09-18T13:57:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T17:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cld\/?p=353"},"modified":"2011-09-18T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T17:58:09","slug":"three-minute-leadership-creating-flow-to-rise-to-new-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2011\/09\/three-minute-leadership-creating-flow-to-rise-to-new-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Creating ‘Flow’ to Rise to New Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n

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A friend recently shared with me Roger Nierenberg\u2019s book, Maestro<\/a>.\u00a0 In it, through the metaphor of music and orchestra, we learn great lessons in leadership. Through a simple team-building rock game we are invited to step back to observe how alignment around a shared-purpose brings people, teams and organizations together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cEveryone starts with two rocks on the floor in front of them.\u00a0 There\u2019s a four-step process.\u00a0 One, you pick up the rocks, Two, you click them together. Three, you place them in front of the person on your left.\u00a0 Four, you clap your hands.\u00a0 Then you pick up two new rocks and begin again. You do all of this in a rhythmic way, so that a steady pulse in generated.\u00a0 The rocks move around the circle in a clockwise direction.\u00a0 The laughter comes when things inevitably break down, as people go at different speeds or can\u2019t create a steady pulse.\u00a0 Once the flow is broken, rocks will start to pile up in front of one person who can\u2019t possibly manage to get rid of them, leaving the next person with no rocks at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nierenberg says that there are moments when the game is played when magic happens.\u00a0 When the game starts, he acknowledges, people are focused on their own movements. As momentum builds they begin to sense and feel a common flow that is developing between themselves and others: \u201cYour attention is no longer on just your own job, but equally on that of somebody across the circle.\u00a0 You are just as connected to the rocks that are approaching you as the ones that are in your hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cA rhythm develops and the players no longer feel like their actions are the source of the pulse, but rather the rules is the source of their actions.\u00a0 The circle becomes more than a collection of individuals and through the unity of the pulse it turns into a seamlessly integrated team.\u00a0 Suddenly, what was tricky becomes easy.\u00a0 No one is making any mistakes.\u00a0 The movement of the rocks has turned \u2026 smooth, steady \u2026. and it generates the most delicious feeling of community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The challenge for great leaders is to create an environment in which people see beyond themselves, anticipating the click of each other\u2019s rocks, in which their own beat finds greater richness in its harmony with others.\u00a0 They feel, think and act as part of something larger, and there is harmony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author and poet, wrote:\u00a0 Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with small steps.”\u00a0 Let the beat that you establish for those whom you serve and touch be rich, lush and inspirational, becoming the unifying mantra they quietly chant and which bring them together as one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Have a beautiful day and a fantastic week!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mike<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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