[Partnerwerks TeamWisdom Tips] Team Leadership Science

   THE SCIENCE OF KNOWLEDGE TEAM LEADERSHIP

10-Second TeamWisdom: Only your integrative
power has no end. Your powers of authority and
exchange are the limited ones.
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I'm more of a rant and less of a rave
about most popular lore on teams,
teamwork, and teambuilding. I still find team
effectiveness in knowledge-based
organizations to be hit or miss. That
explains my relentless pursuit of individual
strategies you can use to get your work done
when you share responsibility.

Getting your work done when sharing
responsibility demands attending to --
consciously or unconsciously -- the power
dynamics in your situation, but then so does
getting anything done with or through others.
Most of us don't think about this rationally
enough. But, howdy, do we EVER think about
it!!

Too much.

Most of us bemoan not having enough budget or
money to buy results (or happiness), or, not
having enough control over situations or
people to drive results (or happiness).

Consequently, most of us don't adequately
recognize, develop and practice the single
greatest source of power available to us.
Want to know what that is?

The distinguished economist Kenneth Boulding
outlined three sources of power available to
anyone ("The Three Faces of Power," Sage
Publications):

  - Authority, aka "threat" or "power over,"
  - Economic, aka "exchange" or "power to,"
    and
  - Integrative, aka, "love" or "power with."

These three sources of power don't occur in
an either/or fashion. Instead, they always
occur in combination. Your success is a
function of skilled proportion.

The most startling part of Boulding's
assessment (and the greatest access to new
learning) is this: of the three sources of
power, the two we most celebrate are clearly
limited. "Power over" is limited to one's
assigned (or ascribed) authority. "Power to"
is limited to one's budget or ability to
convert assets to currency. Only "power with"
is UNLIMITED. Integrative power is unlimited
in its ability to mobilize, focus and
energize people, groups, organizations,
nations. And, all that's required to tap into
our own integrative power is our individual
skill in formulating and conveying a
compelling message about how our fate is --
or can be -- linked with someone else's.

Get started with this issue's 5-Minute
Practice Tip.

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5-Minute Practice Tip: Consider something in
the near term future you want to get done
through others. Envision how to do it
completely through integrative power, then
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© Christopher Avery, 1999-2004. Permission
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Quotable: "Our deepest fear is not that we
are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we
are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light,
not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
~ Marianne Williamson

 

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