When I think of mission I think of James Bond not a way that you act. You might be able to twist the words to make it sound like they are similar but they really aren’t the same. I think of a mission statement as a statement to the way you should act to reach your vision. You mission should also be in line with your morals. Your vision is nothing more then an over all goal for your life. If you complete your vision statement in your lifetime then either it wasn’t big enough or you need a newer bigger one.
Take the recent earthquake in Japan as an example. If your vision were to clean up the damage that happened after the earthquake it wouldn’t be a very good vision. There are many other people with the same idea. It will take time to clean the mess but it will eventually be finished before the die. If you vision were to keep the world clean that would be a pretty good vision. Both nature and humanity consistently makes the world into the mess. You might have to clean up a town that was ravaged by a civil war or maybe the mess of the war, maybe you just clean up all the parks in your local town for a start. There is a lot to do towards this vision and it basically never ends but it is a goal.
What about your mission statement in this vision what would that be. I would say to pick up trash, clean parks, and rebuild homes would be a pretty good mission statement. It is straight to the point and it helps move towards your overall vision of a clean world.
A great place that you will often find a great vision is in science. The idea of quantum computing has been around for while but there have been many recent jumps towards it. Many scientists are shifting their missions towards becoming quantum computing because of their visions. Quantum computing is incredibly useful in complex subjects like artificial intelligence and the universal theory. As fast as our computers are at computing today Quantum computing is incredibly fast and is incredibly small making it very useful. Most of these scientist may never see their work come to creation as their visions are outrageous but they are making a move towards it using their mission statement.
So you have a vision that you wish to attain. This vision is not simple or easy. The vision may never be obtained. You create a mission that will move you towards that over all vision. This mission meets with your goals and your morals. Now you have both a mission statement and you have a vision statement.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Follow the Leader
I believe that a whole lot of people as well as me hate to follow. Kind of the problem with a leadership course or club, you have a bunch of people all striving to be leaders and very few people want to be followers.
Maybe that is why I have lost so much respect in my class. I want to be the leader so I never shut the fuck up hoping I am right. This is not very useful when I do not know what I am talking about. Sure sometimes I do know what I am talking about. Maybe I have done a lot of research on the subject. But nobody knows everything. So when I start rambling on about bull crap it does a pretty good job of angering the class.
I do not believe that I am the only one in the class that does this but I do seem to have gone over the limit. If you haven’t figured this out this makes me a terrible follower. It doesn’t really help to support my leader or the teacher as it disturbs the class. Maybe I try to help the boss by answering a question but what is the point if I don’t know the answer. I’m also not too good at receiving feedback or at understanding my role.
On the other hand I do meet some of the requirements of a good follower. I’ll take initiative to a question. Even if my answer is wrong it creates uproar of answers from the rest of the class. Obviously I always keep the boss informed. But of course I always say thanks to the boss as long as what he or she does something to better the whole class.
So how does some one like me learn form my failures. Well for starters I can start by only talking when there is something that I am well knowledgeable in, things like Business and some European History. In this case it helps support the teacher and any students that disagree may have research that says other wise or may not have any knowledge in the subject and are throwing in an opinion that is not creditable, in which case they are the ignorant follower for once. As well I can sit down write the feedback I get and then read it ten times before I enter class.
These are of course only a couple of ideas that can be implemented to make me a better follower. I will need a lot of work before I can become both a good follower and a good leader but that is why have started this adventure of life, so that I can learn. And of course if I do not learn the wolves will eat me. So it all works out in the end.
Maybe that is why I have lost so much respect in my class. I want to be the leader so I never shut the fuck up hoping I am right. This is not very useful when I do not know what I am talking about. Sure sometimes I do know what I am talking about. Maybe I have done a lot of research on the subject. But nobody knows everything. So when I start rambling on about bull crap it does a pretty good job of angering the class.
I do not believe that I am the only one in the class that does this but I do seem to have gone over the limit. If you haven’t figured this out this makes me a terrible follower. It doesn’t really help to support my leader or the teacher as it disturbs the class. Maybe I try to help the boss by answering a question but what is the point if I don’t know the answer. I’m also not too good at receiving feedback or at understanding my role.
On the other hand I do meet some of the requirements of a good follower. I’ll take initiative to a question. Even if my answer is wrong it creates uproar of answers from the rest of the class. Obviously I always keep the boss informed. But of course I always say thanks to the boss as long as what he or she does something to better the whole class.
So how does some one like me learn form my failures. Well for starters I can start by only talking when there is something that I am well knowledgeable in, things like Business and some European History. In this case it helps support the teacher and any students that disagree may have research that says other wise or may not have any knowledge in the subject and are throwing in an opinion that is not creditable, in which case they are the ignorant follower for once. As well I can sit down write the feedback I get and then read it ten times before I enter class.
These are of course only a couple of ideas that can be implemented to make me a better follower. I will need a lot of work before I can become both a good follower and a good leader but that is why have started this adventure of life, so that I can learn. And of course if I do not learn the wolves will eat me. So it all works out in the end.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
The Process of Leadership
Everything goes through a process. You are born, you grow up, and then you become old and die. This process happens over and over again and it works for us. So what if you developed a process for leadership?
Well they did and they called it process theory. So here is what goes into this process. The first is a purpose something that you and your group are working towards. You have to have inclusiveness. Everybody is part of the process; leaving people out of the process will only delay the solution to the purpose. You also need to empower the people in your group. This can be done in many ways but low moral always slows down the process. Contrary to popular belief moral does not improve with continuous beatings. Finally you have to be weary of ethics. Lying and saying that “witches possessed you” only works in a group for so long until somebody in the group steps up. Ethics are very complicated but there are many standards such as lying and stealing that everybody follows. It’s a process it works. Government is a great example of this process and when they don’t follow the process they have a tendency to run into problems.
Speaking of governments not following the leadership process Libya has been running into a lot of problems in the past couple of the weeks. This is a true example of somebody who doesn’t follow the process. Governments have many purposes; among them is protecting the people and preserving them as a country. They aren’t doing to good at moving towards their purpose. They leave just about everybody out, as their country is a dictatorship instead of a democracy that the people want. Well there goes inclusiveness. As for empowerment… Maybe I shouldn’t have made that joke before about the beatings. This government is sadistic; instead of empowering them they just beat them down until all forms of hope are lost. What about there ethics? More like what ethics? The entire problem is there lack of basic human rights. They are lied to, cheated, beaten, and often murdered. There is no leadership process at least not as a country.
What about their military? It almost works but it still doesn’t quite. The entire military is included in there actions. Inclusiveness is met. The men feel empowered as they stand over the people shoving their guns into them. Yet there is still a problem with the process. There are still no ethics. The system doesn’t work and now it is beginning to backfire on them.
The process doesn’t always work and it isn’t always used but it is important to keep you mind open for things of such magnitude. It could change the lives of many.
Well they did and they called it process theory. So here is what goes into this process. The first is a purpose something that you and your group are working towards. You have to have inclusiveness. Everybody is part of the process; leaving people out of the process will only delay the solution to the purpose. You also need to empower the people in your group. This can be done in many ways but low moral always slows down the process. Contrary to popular belief moral does not improve with continuous beatings. Finally you have to be weary of ethics. Lying and saying that “witches possessed you” only works in a group for so long until somebody in the group steps up. Ethics are very complicated but there are many standards such as lying and stealing that everybody follows. It’s a process it works. Government is a great example of this process and when they don’t follow the process they have a tendency to run into problems.
Speaking of governments not following the leadership process Libya has been running into a lot of problems in the past couple of the weeks. This is a true example of somebody who doesn’t follow the process. Governments have many purposes; among them is protecting the people and preserving them as a country. They aren’t doing to good at moving towards their purpose. They leave just about everybody out, as their country is a dictatorship instead of a democracy that the people want. Well there goes inclusiveness. As for empowerment… Maybe I shouldn’t have made that joke before about the beatings. This government is sadistic; instead of empowering them they just beat them down until all forms of hope are lost. What about there ethics? More like what ethics? The entire problem is there lack of basic human rights. They are lied to, cheated, beaten, and often murdered. There is no leadership process at least not as a country.
What about their military? It almost works but it still doesn’t quite. The entire military is included in there actions. Inclusiveness is met. The men feel empowered as they stand over the people shoving their guns into them. Yet there is still a problem with the process. There are still no ethics. The system doesn’t work and now it is beginning to backfire on them.
The process doesn’t always work and it isn’t always used but it is important to keep you mind open for things of such magnitude. It could change the lives of many.
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