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The Center for Self-Organizing Leadership
...connecting Leaders, Learning and Experience
November 2010
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For the Leader: Do you want to know more about becoming the most effective leader you can be? Do you feel like you're trying hard, spinning many wheels, yet still not getting effective results?

Contact CtrSOL to learn how to discern the unique difference between situations requiring ordinary management processes vs. more complex situations calling for authentic-leadership processes.

The Center for Self-Organizing Leadership is focused on working with Leaders to help them lead more effectively-- providing the tools to lead complex changes with extraordinary results.

CtrSOL....connects Leaders, Learning and Experience. Come learn with us!

Leaders:
  • Do you have vision? Can you articulate it to the people whom you lead? Do you share it often?
  • Do you have courage? The courage to stand tall when the wind isn't blowing your way?
  • Does your team, academic department, group or organization move forward with clarity? coherence?
  • What wicked problem keeps you up at night? What are you doing about it....to move forward?

    Leaders that are effective know their competencies, know their weaknesses. They tap into huge courage. They deal with trouble when it happens. They lead with certainty.


    • The very essence of leadership is that you have and embrace a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. ~~Theodore Hesburgh~~
    "Wicked problem" is a term used to describe a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. Moreover, because of complex interdependencies, the effort to solve one aspect of a wicked problem may reveal or create other problems. Sometimes part of trying to solve a wicked problem involves the same people who are creating it.

    Is your organization or academic arena experiencing "wicked problems"? Do things keep resurfacing? Do issues seem to just recycle? Do you think you just resolved something, only to find that it has raised up to the forefront again?

    At the Center for Self-Organizing Leadership, we are experts at helping Leaders lift up and address the recurring, complex, wicked problems that tend to cripple organizations. These are the type of problems, which when allowed to continue to fester, erode the effectiveness of organizations, teams, and groups.

    At the Center for Self-Organizing Leadership, we help Leaders to learn how to resolve complex problems using a proprietary process that is rooted in Complexity Science.

    Call 716-622-6467. Tell us about your "wicked problem"!
    The Center for Self-Organizing Leadership is ending its non-profit status as a corporation covered by New York State Not-for-profit Corporation Law effective 12/31/10.

    Effective 1/01/11, The Center for Self-Organizing Leadership will become a d/b/a arm of Richard N. Knowles & Associates, Inc.
    That's a poignant question and observation noted by Dr. Margaret J. Wheatley. In her book "Finding Our Way--Leadership For an Uncertain Time" (c) 2005, she underscores that organizations and institutions can achieve a balance for meeting and exceeding business objectives while having an environment for nourishing the human spirit and developing the potency of people. Dr. Wheatley lifts up as vital a strong and successful type of leadership that focuses on Information--as the medium of the organization, on Identity--as the sense-making capacity of the organization, and Relationship--as the path-making capacity of the organization. (These three domains are the mainstays of Self-Organizing Leadership.)

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    • Leadership doesn't just happen--it emerges as the principles of Self-Organizing Leadership are consciously cultivated.
    • CtrSOL helps leaders learn to lead more effectively, to create the conditions and use the best tools to successfully lead transformative organizational change.
      • While we are active practitioners in business leadership, we also draw from academia and those that have high value for continuous learning and development, and those that wish to explore new thinking in arenas for emergent leadership. We are connected with colleagues at the University of Windsor (Canada), at the University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse WI, at Medaille College, Buffalo NY, with Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL and with Fairleigh-Dickinson University, Morristown, NJ. Call us....to learn how and why.
    • CtrSOL is a community of learning and practice, revealing more sustainble ways to lead.
    • Our work is helping leaders and people to become aware of the current and the possible; to provide the space and the important tools for emergent conversations that help people make sense of things and to work together--to accomplish whatever they want to do more effectively and coherently.
    • The CtrSOL experience is a shared source of knowledge for leaders, colleagues and associates to use in their work and life.
    • Why do we use the Process Enneagram? Because---The Process Enneagram is the best tool known to simultaneously...*Help people reach rational solutions, ...*Build and strengthen social connections...*Create the emotional energy and commitment...So that everything comes together and the organization (and leaders) can experience extraordinary results!

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