If
the environment is genuinely participatory, it is not a problem
if someone at some time dominates the agenda. Group process does
not necessarily mean that everyone agrees. You do not want agreement,
but natural alignment about shipping products. Disagreement is
the root of creativity. There is a time and place in the creative
process where someone stands up and says, "This is it, let's eliminate
the options and go to closure."
Creativity
is the process of eliminating options. (MG
Taylor Axiom). You have to know how those processes worked.
For example, there is a building in San Francisco that has not
been built with the foundations first. You have to be aware of
the design process and when and why decisions were made. But freedom
also includes the freedom to dominate.
Leadership
in a business context is about getting things done. It's aggressive.
Have you seen the little flowers growing up out of the crevices
of rocks? That is aggressive. Life is aggressive. Aggressive gets
it done. But the major rules are that you allow others to be heard.
The
technique is to pass the wand, and use the sapiential
leadership. You have the natural leadership--the artists, the
visionaries, the synthesizers. If you look at the Creative
Process model, you can see that those are not steps, but energies.
There is the visionary, the synthesizer, the engineer, the administrator,
the user. As you move through the phases, let those people with
those energies dominate that part of the process.
000706.Matt
Taylor
