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Dear Celia,
So much has happened since our
last newsletter. While
the economic condition remains
depressed, we somehow have
gotten some new hope since a new
president along with a new
administration is coming in.
In this newsletter, I will
continue to explore the topic of
leadership and encourage you to
read my writing and let me know
your thoughts as well.
I am excited to do an Asian
Leadership development program
in Indianapolis next week. I
will deliver a one-day workshop
on "Global Leadership" for the
Minneapolis chapter of OD
Network on January 14, 2009.
And most importantly, To follow
our tradition, we will offer our
Gestalt Intro workshop entitled ,
How to Use
Yourself to Have a Better Impact
and Influence in the Work You Do
scheduled for January 21 through
January 25, 2009 in Orange
County, California. Please join
us or send someone. And we are
also here to help your business
succeed with integrity.
May our newsletter inspire you
to become more fully who you are
in order to transform your
organization for the greater
good.
Enjoy the fall season.
Love & Light,
President
Celia Young & Associates, Inc.
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phone: (949) 388-7882
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Leadership From Another
Angle
Change is in the air. Can you
feel it?
Like many people, I cried when
it became clear that Obama is
the next president of the United
States. Not only many people in
the U.S. were excited, people
from many other countries were
as well. They reacted as if
they have been waiting for a
change leader for a long time.
Now finally they have someone
that they want to follow.
Many years ago, I went to visit
China, my parents' homeland for
the first time. Folks on the
street offered to buy the faded
blue jeans I was wearing. I
realized that the blue jeans
represent the American spirit.
America, to many in the world,
is a symbol and an ideal of
liberty, democracy,
opportunities, hopes and
self-reliance. This is the
leadership quality that the
world wants. However, despite
its wealth, natural resources
and ingenuity, the core base of
America's citizens are still
quite provincial. Throughout
history, when in challenging
times, they tended to fall back
on the 'small town value" and
"lone ranger on the white
horse". This "close the door
and look at our own navels" or
"going alone" mentality only
made us more isolated and
disconnected from the world and
ignored the fact that our fate
is intertwined with the rest of
the world. For decades instead
of using its symbol and ideal,
Americans, arms with such
beliefs that we are the only
hero and protector of the free
world, have depended on the
country's wealth, its industrial
engine and its weapons to wield
its leadership around the
globe. The world has adapted to
this kind of leadership because
they saw no other choice. We
use these powers to buy
influence and cooperation. Our
relationship with the rest of
the world has mainly been
transactional. Leading by fear
and by creating dependency might
have temporarily won us the
battle but have not won us any
peace. Great empires rise and
fall like this throughout
history.
A leader like Obama represents
someone that the people finally
can project their hope onto.
Leading by inspiration and
empowerment, people will follow
you with their heart and soul
forever. However to put one
person on a pedestal as if he or
she alone can save us from all
our problems, is not only
unrealistic, but downright
dangerous. Leadership is
defined by its followers. Who
are we as followers? Do we want
to continue to be sheep or
should we try to be leaders in
our own sphere of influence?
What is our world view? How can
we educate ourselves and expand
our understanding of the world
we live in? How can we help our
enterprise and nation fulfill
their highest potential and
transform the world? What would
happen if we just let one man
rule the world or fall on the
sword? We want a change leader
but what changes need to happen
to ourselves?
On one side of my living room, I
have a painting that spans from
the ceiling to the floor. It is
full of bright colors, yellow,
green, blue and purple. It
looks like sunlight shining on
slashing water in a virgin
forest. The name of the
painting is "Pacarena", an
Amazon Indian word for
"doorway". We are at the door
for a new dawn. This is the
time for deep contemplation.
I wish you are ready to open
your door for a new beginning.
Peace
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WORKSHOPS
Sponsored by Celia Young &
Associates, Inc.
How To
Use Yourself
HOW TO HAVE A BETTER
IMPACT
AND INFLUENCE IN THE
WORK YOU DO:
An introduction
of Gestalt principles
and their application
January 21 through January
25, 2009
Location: South Orange
County, California
Workshop
Leader: Celia Young,
President & CEO, Celia
Young & Associates, Inc.
Workshop
Co-leader: Deborah
Ranier, Organizational
Development Consultant
In this
modern world we live in, we
spend our most energetic
hours in a day at work.
Regardless of what we do,
most of us want to make a
difference. Our success
often depends on our ability
to impact and influence our
environment effectively.
This workshop is designed to
help participants increase
their effectiveness at work
by introducing to them some
of the basic Gestalt theory,
concepts, methodology and
its application in the work
world.
Workshop Outcome
At the end of the
workshop, participants will
have:
- gained a
keener sense of awareness of
themselves and their
environment in assisting
them to see the choices they
have
- expanded
their ability to make
clearer and more effective
interventions in their work
- learned to
stop getting in the way of
their natural process of
work by trusting their own
and their clients'
experience
- become
bigger than the tools and
techniques they carry
- magnified
who they are, what they
already know and do, in a
more succinct manner.
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