Dutch,
I can really appreciate your suggestion on how Henri Fayol
characterized management and included leading only as an aspect
instead of as an emphasis, but I see a whole new set of values
emerging under LEADERSHIP, other than the ones that you suggested.
Fayol: Planning, organizing, leading, controlling
Dutch: Planning, organizing, managing, controlling
My Proposal:
Research (Customer needs, Trends, Market, Competition)
Visioning (Where do we need to be in order to meet demands
indicated in the Research phase)
Self-Evaluation (Past performance, Current performance, inhibitors
and enablers, barriers and attitudes torward the
change required)
Communicating (Convey the vision, the research and the
self-evaluation to all aspects of the Corporation
creating a sense of urgency and shared
responsibility)
Planning (What do we need to do to develop systems to
support the changes needed)
Standardizing (Secure systems through procedures)
Re-evaluate (What did we learn)
Repeat process
Please forgive me if I am way out of bounds here and am
threatening any strongly held beliefs or values regarding changing
or modifying Fayol's theories. I do not have a Business
Management background, a PhD, nor a Masters and I made okay grades
in college (BS Degree). I don't have any knowlege of who Fayol
was (I majored in Communications); I just have some opinions and
am taking it all at face value. Please don't read any
unintentional challenges in this reply. I know that I could not
TAKE ON the major universities and couldn't possibly compete with
some of the knowlege and experience that most of you have. Maybe
I am operating outside of some of the paradigms that tend to
develop within groups who have common interests. It doesn't make
me right and I am not trying to BE RIGHT...I am just wanting to
explore this because it is important to me in my job of trying to
help corporations lead change in an often highly resistant
culture.
Thanks for listening (reading)
Rick Corcoran
Continuous Improvement Mgr
Excel Industries, Inc.
corcoranre@excelinc.com