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The Learning Organization disciplines, personal mastery and shared vision as they relate to the the leadership capability of Aspiration are this month’s focus. Since our last blog and webinar discussed responsibility and accountability, this next conversation emphasizes personal and team responsibility as it relates to aspiration. Dictionaries state that to aspire in a living system conjures up phrases like: to dream, long for, hunger for, hanker after, hope, yearn and the like. For the sake of this conversation, JLC invites you to think of aspiration as a leadership capability. Cold Mountain Consulting uses a quote by a guitar company’s CEO to describe an Aspiration Driven Business Strategy, which is Cold Mountain’s trademark focus. "A really good company has a lot of stakeholders. And a really good CEO, in my view, is somebody who juggles all the various things and fulfills the needs of all the stakeholders. So stakeholders are employees who derive their livelihood from the company, vendors, the retail dealer base which we operate through, the communities we operate in. Music education is a really big deal to me. We've supported a lot of things in the area of music education because that's our community. It's one of our stakeholders."---Henry Juszkiewicz, CEO, Gibson Guitar, USA Today, 2/21/06 Cold Mountain continues: “All organizations, even those in the same industry, exist to fulfill a unique vision and accomplish a special purpose, which is what makes one organization distinct from another. An Aspiration-Driven Business Strategy™ is a sustainable approach to visionary, purposeful growth driven by an organization’s ability to continuously adapt its business processes, structure and culture to fulfill the aspirations of its key constituencies in a balanced and equitable way.” Many companies, organizations, schools and professionals aspire to the gold or stardom or some level of recognition. Some leaders coach people to aspire to accomplish goals that lead to a condition like increased satisfied customers, green buildings, high quality guitars, safe automobiles, profitable revenue, grade level proficiency in math, reading and the like. These ideas are not limited to the corporate and services arena, nations also aspire. An evolving nation in the latter half of the eighteenth century developed and aspirational statement: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” The nations of the world use elegant sentences to describe their expectations of success while their respective leaders craft and re-craft statements of aspiration and hope. Just as statesmen and company officials align their systems toward the collective statements of hope, each of have daily opportunities to design these aspirational statements and use them to motivate self and others. As we move this blog toward next month’s webinar, please give your thoughts on aspiration and consider the following provocation: When leading self and others how does the leadership capability of Aspiration function in conversations?
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