Thursday, December 9, 2010
PQ : Using All Six Mindsets
While there are 6 distinct mindsets that characterise the way a successful, learning oriented leader operate, I am wondering how these leaders master all of them and put them all into practice. Other than have these mindsets, do these leaders also have other qualities that make them sucessful as well? If there are, what might they be?
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The course I took last summer was put on by a principal in the Prince George school district. I also had the opportunity to work with her for a year. She is extremely competent and well respected as a principal in this district. I had a similar question for her about mastery of the six mindsets. She responded to me by saying that it takes years to master these mindsets and even now she continues to work at ensuring that she puts them into practice. I think that being congnisant of these mindsets is the biggest hurdle in trying to be successful as a leader.
ReplyDeleteOne area that comes to mind is that of vision. It relates very closely to moral purpose. In the context of vision, moral purpose becomes more like the power station and vision where the ship is being propelled toward. Moral purpose is also telling of one’s level of commitment and personal involvement. It is indicative of the personal alignment with the vision. Having placed vision in context, it too has a vibrant life of its own.
ReplyDeleteFundamentally having a vision is the holding of what is possible when one might declare it impossible in the light of what is manifest. It is seeing beyond.
Vision requires self-esteem, a sense of belonging, being part of something bigger. In my journey around the vision quest ceremony, it has been expressed how vision is seen as having a life of its own and that it comes and joins up with us if we call it. The beauty of this approach is that in the focus of walking with vision, the “I” no longer needs to carry it. Vision has its own energy, its own flow, and we are but part of it. It brings with it all that is necessary and draws to it all those who can support it for it to manifest. We need only to allow it to do so. Once manifest, it is much easier to step aside in terms of taking credit as we know how it came to be. This perspective shatters the image of one person, be it John Wayne, Bruce Willis, or the saviour that pulls the whole from the claws of doom without whom all would perish. This opens the door for the smallest, the humblest most unassuming of us to become a vehicle for greatness.