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Jeffrey S. Nielsen

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Description:This short work is meant to be the instigator, I hope, of a global dialogue on how better to live and work together in the twenty-first century. We need to convene a conversation on leadership and rank-based authority and the sooner the better, if we hope to solve the pervasive problems we face, before it’s too late. This book is also about the art of being human in community—the art of living beautiful lives of purpose and value in our organizations.I should say what a supermeme is. It is an unexamined belief, which is widely held by a society, or even by entire cultures. It governs how people see and think about reality, and so it determines how a people engage with others, community, and the world. Given their unexamined nature and that they are widely accepted as true, supermemes can cause a dysfunctional status quo to emerge, which may last for generations, if not millenniums. They are able to push out other ideas and block genuine reflection and thinking on better ways to live as human beings. Supermemes harm human happiness and flourishing. In this book, I will argue that we are prevented from solving our extremely difficult, but not impossible, problems, by the supermeme of leadership—our ongoing concept of leader and practice of leadership governing life in our communities, nations, and work organizations.So, everywhere we look we see countries and governments polarized and dysfunctional with few, if any, thoughtful and wise strategies to deal with the world’s growing political problems. We see economies struggling to provide most persons with decent jobs and livable wages, while at the same time grossly enriching the already wealthy. Even the economic recoveries of the last fifty-years have left the middle and working classes with a diminished standard of living. Now the effects of human induced climate change are about to make our problems even worse. We are approaching the climax of a perfect storm of bad things. In the face of these worldwide challenges, our concept of leadership and practice of leaders and professional managers are failing us. In fact, it is our practice of leadership and concept of leader, including the idea of professional managers, which is a major part of the problem.Many believe the system is rigged against them to benefit those who already possess wealth and power. They are right. But what they don’t realize is how they do the rigging themselves! We all do, actually; by the way we permit power to be distributed in designing and managing our communities and work organizations. A primary objective of this book is to make people aware of the unquestioned rank-based conception of authority, justified by the supermeme of leadership, which we all accept as the proper and only way to distribute and exercise power in our shared lives together. So we give the few leaders and managers the power to control the decision-making affecting our lives and to command the resources we all need to live well. Should we be surprised that the powerful few grow in wealth and influence, while the many powerless find only evaporating opportunities? We will be examining the dynamic of the rank-based conception of authority, how it leads to unfair and immoral outcomes, and, most importantly, how our concept of leader and practice of leadership manipulates us into conspiring in our own repression. This work will require a serious ethical-political engagement with the very presuppositions of our living together as human beings.My thesis, though difficult to imagine, is quite simple. Our concept of leader and practice of leadership is harmful to the majority of persons living in leader-based communities and working in leader-based organizations. In this book, I will explain why.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Deconstructing the Supermeme of Leadership: A Brief Invitation to Creating Peer-based Communities & Leaderless Organizations. To get started finding Deconstructing the Supermeme of Leadership: A Brief Invitation to Creating Peer-based Communities & Leaderless Organizations, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 120

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Literary Suites Publishing

Release: 2014

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Description: This short work is meant to be the instigator, I hope, of a global dialogue on how better to live and work together in the twenty-first century. We need to convene a conversation on leadership and rank-based authority and the sooner the better, if we hope to solve the pervasive problems we face, before it’s too late. This book is also about the art of being human in community—the art of living beautiful lives of purpose and value in our organizations.I should say what a supermeme is. It is an unexamined belief, which is widely held by a society, or even by entire cultures. It governs how people see and think about reality, and so it determines how a people engage with others, community, and the world. Given their unexamined nature and that they are widely accepted as true, supermemes can cause a dysfunctional status quo to emerge, which may last for generations, if not millenniums. They are able to push out other ideas and block genuine reflection and thinking on better ways to live as human beings. Supermemes harm human happiness and flourishing. In this book, I will argue that we are prevented from solving our extremely difficult, but not impossible, problems, by the supermeme of leadership—our ongoing concept of leader and practice of leadership governing life in our communities, nations, and work organizations.So, everywhere we look we see countries and governments polarized and dysfunctional with few, if any, thoughtful and wise strategies to deal with the world’s growing political problems. We see economies struggling to provide most persons with decent jobs and livable wages, while at the same time grossly enriching the already wealthy. Even the economic recoveries of the last fifty-years have left the middle and working classes with a diminished standard of living. Now the effects of human induced climate change are about to make our problems even worse. We are approaching the climax of a perfect storm of bad things. In the face of these worldwide challenges, our concept of leadership and practice of leaders and professional managers are failing us. In fact, it is our practice of leadership and concept of leader, including the idea of professional managers, which is a major part of the problem.Many believe the system is rigged against them to benefit those who already possess wealth and power. They are right. But what they don’t realize is how they do the rigging themselves! We all do, actually; by the way we permit power to be distributed in designing and managing our communities and work organizations. A primary objective of this book is to make people aware of the unquestioned rank-based conception of authority, justified by the supermeme of leadership, which we all accept as the proper and only way to distribute and exercise power in our shared lives together. So we give the few leaders and managers the power to control the decision-making affecting our lives and to command the resources we all need to live well. Should we be surprised that the powerful few grow in wealth and influence, while the many powerless find only evaporating opportunities? We will be examining the dynamic of the rank-based conception of authority, how it leads to unfair and immoral outcomes, and, most importantly, how our concept of leader and practice of leadership manipulates us into conspiring in our own repression. This work will require a serious ethical-political engagement with the very presuppositions of our living together as human beings.My thesis, though difficult to imagine, is quite simple. Our concept of leader and practice of leadership is harmful to the majority of persons living in leader-based communities and working in leader-based organizations. In this book, I will explain why.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Deconstructing the Supermeme of Leadership: A Brief Invitation to Creating Peer-based Communities & Leaderless Organizations. To get started finding Deconstructing the Supermeme of Leadership: A Brief Invitation to Creating Peer-based Communities & Leaderless Organizations, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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