Live Blogging the Denver Pioneer Institute
TrainingPosted on Thu Oct 27, 2005 at 09:14:42 AM EST
Please read the contribution below by Anita Schacher (On Being a LTC Administrator). I was reluctant to post something this morning from the Denver Institute because I didn't want to displace her eloquent words from being the first thing a person sees when coming to the Exchange. She captures so well the energy that we're working to promote with the Pioneer Institutes.
There are over 200 folks gathered now for the two-day intensive training. The Colorado Culture Change Coalition is one of the premiere statewide culture change coalitions. I will be talking with folks here and asking them to contribute their thoughts about what factors have made their coalition so successful.
The leadership of Pinon Management, Inc., has been instrumental in fostering the growth of the culture movement in Colorado. Jeff Jerebker, Pinon's President & CEO, wrote an excellent piece in their most recent newsletter, "Pinon News" (it's not yet posted on their site, but that link takes you to previous issues). It's titled "Revolution and Counter Revolution" and here is an excerpt:
Megan Hannan, at left, leads a Pioneer Institute pathway
There are over 200 folks gathered now for the two-day intensive training. The Colorado Culture Change Coalition is one of the premiere statewide culture change coalitions. I will be talking with folks here and asking them to contribute their thoughts about what factors have made their coalition so successful.
The leadership of Pinon Management, Inc., has been instrumental in fostering the growth of the culture movement in Colorado. Jeff Jerebker, Pinon's President & CEO, wrote an excellent piece in their most recent newsletter, "Pinon News" (it's not yet posted on their site, but that link takes you to previous issues). It's titled "Revolution and Counter Revolution" and here is an excerpt:
There is a historical cycle to revolutionary movements, whether successful or not. Generally founded on visionary ideas rooted in charismatic leadership, a revolutionary movement many times commences with a glimpse of truth or an extension of the frontier of the status quo....
As a revolutionary movement evolves, more often than not, it begins to codify, unify, and develop an orthodoxy around this glimpse of truth. As it further evolves, orthodoxy becomes bureaucracy, and vision becomes reshaped into an opportunity for power, control, and wealth. The original charasmatic light becomes dimmed, and control becomes paramount over visionary thinking. Dissent from this control is condemned and even repressed, just as it was in the original revolutionary movement. Hence, revolution becomes counter revolution as a protector of the new status quo. This cycle has been repeated over and over in the course of human history.
Jeff then goes on to describe how the culture change movement fits within this revolutionary model, and he wonders whether it will evolve and develop counter-revolutionary characterstics.As a revolutionary movement evolves, more often than not, it begins to codify, unify, and develop an orthodoxy around this glimpse of truth. As it further evolves, orthodoxy becomes bureaucracy, and vision becomes reshaped into an opportunity for power, control, and wealth. The original charasmatic light becomes dimmed, and control becomes paramount over visionary thinking. Dissent from this control is condemned and even repressed, just as it was in the original revolutionary movement. Hence, revolution becomes counter revolution as a protector of the new status quo. This cycle has been repeated over and over in the course of human history.
The beauty of a collaborative media blog like the Pioneer Exchange is that it's uniquely designed to allow the voices of those in the movement to be heard in a way that constantly keeps a revolutionary way of thinking in the forefront.
Anyone can post a diary on the right over there, anyone can leave comments seeking advice or describing their own experience with culture change. We're promoting the Pioneer Exchange as a forum for ideas -- what those ideas are depends on community consensus and active participation by you reading this.
We're building community, one comment and one diary entry at a time. You are the movement.
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