High Performance

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High Performance

• Class 9 and Class 10
• FAX [phone]
• Atten Benson Honig

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How to promote spirit, (Bolman and Deal)

• Define a culture even if it is zany
• Spirituality of Haas, Ben and Jerrys, can this
  mix with a culture of shareholder value?
• Contrast with the problems of AIDs drugs and
  how they fought off South Africas patent
  avoidance

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What are our responsibilities, and how do they
invoke culture and drive?

• Is business a matter of community promotion?
• shareholder promotion?
• wealth generation
• Economic development?
• or what?
• Think of Europe

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Drucker on our mission

• Must be something you deeply believe in
• The concept should be short and succinct and
  shared with everyone in the organization
• Be aware of changes both current and
  anticipated in the environment

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Why do organizations exist?

• Never subordinate the mission in order to get
  money- do not sell your soul
• Think of Nestles, Martha Stewart
• The ultimate test is not the beauty of the
  mission statement the ultimate test is your
  performance

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For leadership

• Bolman and Deal say leading is giving, is an
  ethic, a gift of oneself.
• Should love be evident in the modern firm?
• How does denying and providing power alter
  the cultural environment? Unions?
• Stopping the line is standard operating procedure
  in Japanese auto firms

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What holds organizations together?

• My own research on organizations under pressure
  suggests that ideology is a useful factor
  limiting the speed of unnecessary change.
• Spirituality and the firm how can we do this?
• Think of rituals, ceremonies, icons, music,
  stories (who solved what who goofed).
• Social capital is community

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The vision thing

• How and when should a leader establish vision
  the mental model of a future state of a process,
  group, or organization?
• The notion of history as a backwards vision
• Mead calls vision a universal utopian notion
• Vision is time specific

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What vision is not

• Prophecy
• Mission
• A set of facts
• Static
• Meant to limit, but to enable

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Where does vision come from?

• Foresight
• Insight
• Imagination
• Judgment
• Audacity (chutzpah)
• All the above based on values and ethics

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How to develop vision

• Study your environment and organization
• Discuss with all involved all that your org.
  touches
• Be very open minded both to new ideas, and to
  the vision of others

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