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>Roland  I agree  that fear does not work.
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>My dilemma is that it exists and that managers believe that it should.
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>How do you drive out fear in organizations that want to have fear ?
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>Fritz Perls said that real change can only come through catastrophe.
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>Possibly these organizations need to failure and rebirth as places
>without fear.
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>Regards
>Denis Cowan
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This may be right, but you have to consider the nature of the re-birth. New
organisations are normally formed by idiosyncratic entrepreneurs who have
great faith in their own abilities, and feel threatened by being eclipsed
by others. This is probably the genesis of the fear cycle.

I believe we need a much more sophisticated concepts of leadership which
reduces the emphasis on the individual, and looks more at shared leadership
roles. This does, however, need special skills that are not well developed
by the individualistic western culture.

Gray Southon
Gray Southon
Research Fellow
Fujitsu Centre
Australian Graduate School of Management
University of New South Wales
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