EN Love & Management Part 1 - Manage or Die Inspirations 2012

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DIFFICULT MATTERS IN A STRAIGHT

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„LOVE & MANAGEMENT...

Love seems to be a strange word with reference to the management, but in my humble

opinion it’s like on the most spot. We are usually associating it only with the areas of

public service ( educational institutions, hospitals, etc.), where sympathy is the second

nature, and after all love in the business means acting in the way which is caring about

people and world in which we live...

So where is this prejudice from???

Men have dominated the landscape of business world, so love in the management was

missing. Why ? It’s simple: love, sympathy and the spirituality generally are perceived,

as typically female features.

Many factors make it up, so as even if cultural aspects and social expectations: the man

in the management is supposed to be strong, "ruthless", deprived of the spiritual

awareness...

Lord Vader of our times ;)

Nowadays managing is simply unsuited to the most essential needs of the mankind:

To love and to be loved...

After all love is also respect for the other person, concern, tolerance, forgiving, right to

make mistakes, approval, values which so outstandingly are missing in the corporate

world.”

Magdalena Kolb

Voice in the matter …


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We can look for the analogy

and inspiration

for the management,

everywhere…

…in nature, in music, in human

behaviours outside the

company.


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You should only be:

attentive ,

reflective ,

ready for changes.

And so a contemporary

Manager should be.


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Manager

That is who?What does he do?


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A manager is a person, for whom the completion of the process of managing is a basic task - decision making, planning, organising and controlling.

By the use of a word "manager" it is possible to describe every person who makes decisions, but this word is most commonly used for describing the person, who is employed in all sorts of companies or organizations and carries out or participates in the process of managing.

Source: Wikipedia, http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mened%C5%BCer

Technocratic dimension of the post of the

Manager


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Manager

that is

somebody

? Who is he? What attitudes and what

behaviours are characteristic of him?


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The person who would be supposed to guide a team must be somebody special.

A manager is a man of appropriate features…

He can organize his time and the time of his partners.

By delegating the responsibility and entitlements, he lets take decisions,

he/she teaches them independent thinking.

A leadership isn't mainly about what is being done, but about what

kind of person a leader is. The man with the personality of a leader is self-confident, satisfied,

assertive, etc. Of course the Manager does not always have to be a leader …

He has friendly relationships with partners, however at the same time he is also demanding.

He is interested in the problems of his subordinates and pays attention to their progress, to them…

Behavioral dimension of the post of the

Manager


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Differences between the management and the leadership were identified and described in 50ties. 0f the 20th century.

A leadership is a process of influencing, without using the compulsion, on forming

the objectives of the organisation,

of motivating to set behaviours which will enable reaching these purposes, as

well as supporting the corporate culture…


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A management and a leadership

are two systems complementary to to one

another- action and attitude. In this study we are assigning

these attitudes to the Manager,where the management has a technocratic dimension,

leadership - behavioral


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We suggest looking for

benchamarking for the attitudes of the manager

in the behavioral dimension

(behaviours, attitudes) in …

Love


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There are many attitudes, behaviours, believes, characteristic of love and of the

management. Of establishing in love, introduced too Erich Fromm, will constitute a point of reference for

conducts presented in the management …

Based on the theses included in his book, „The Art of

Loving", we will pay attention to behavioral dimensions of

the management.


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Love is an Art…


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Love is an Art.

E. Fromm claims love is an art…

If we want to learn to love ourselves,

we must act in the same way as when,

when we want to learn any other art:

to learn the theory and practice.


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Management

is an Art…


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Management is an Art.

A management is an art of judicious (logical)

administering of managerial tools for

achieving determined objectives.

And also as in love, the practice, the

acquired theory and the attitude create the

image of the Manager - an artist in his

field…


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…love is by no means a simple emotion,

which can become an experience of

everyone, irrespective of the degree of

the achieved maturity…


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…for the man all his

attempts to love will be

sentenced to failure,

if he does not try most

insistently to develop his

personality,

in order to get the

creative practical

attitude…


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… the management is by no means a

simple skill which can become a part of

everyone, irrespective of the degree of

the achieved maturity…

Unfortunately very often it means

immature man = immature manager


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Management

has many dimentions.

In this presentation we refer

to it in the behavioral, not

technocratic dimension…


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A manager is

a flesh and blood person …

With vices and virtues…

With the behaviours

characteristic

of everyday life …


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Current studies devote a lot of space to the

technical side of management, paying

attention, in particular attention to :

Planning

Organising

Motivating

Controlling


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Therefore, in all likelihood it can be

assumed, that certain universal

behaviours, characteristic of love, which

genarally appear

in life,

influence

the professionalization of manager’s

attitude and in the end

contribute to the achievement of better

and better effects of his work…


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Key elements characteristic

of love & management:

CONCERN

SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY

RESPECT

COGNITION

TRUST


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Concern


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Love is an active interest in the life and

development of what we love. (an essence of love is to work for something and to make something

develop)

Love is actiLove is actingng, rather than passive , rather than passive

experiencingexperiencing..

Love is a unification determined by keeping

the integrity of the man, of his individuality.


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In the job of a manager, in

management concernconcern for

shareholders, customers,

employees, results,

development constitute the

basis of organization

improval.


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Sense

of

responsibility


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The responsibility in its real sense

is a completely voluntary act.

It is a personal need to meet the expressed

or not expressed needs of the second human

being …


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Sense of responsibility in the management

should result, like in the act of love,

not from position, but from the voluntary

attitude.

Responsibility for oneself and others, results

from the mature attitude and the professional

approach towards performed tasks.

Responsibility built on respect,

it is the top level of excellence.


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Respect


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Respect doesn’t result from fear, neither

from terror. It means the ability to

accept the man the way he is. To realize

his unique individuality.

Respect means desire for the other man to

develop.

Respect assumes the indisposition to

exploit…


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Respect can exclusively exist basing on

freedom:

„l’amour est l’enfant de la

liberté”,

As an old French song says;

love is the child of freedom,

never of subjugation.


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Respect is a basis of

building appropriate

business relations…

Respect for the other man

underlies the attitude of the

Manager.


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Respect influences the quality and the

efficiency of the process of managing, giving

the opportunity to obtain from people

everything, that is best in them…

Respected employees

+

(they) are giving what best in them

=

better results!


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Cognition


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Cognition would be devoid of contents,

if an interest wasn't its motive.

I must objectively get to know the other

man

and myself, in order to overcome

illusions, irrationally distorted image,

which I developed of him…


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The ability to concentrate on the other man,

gives the manager a chance to get to know

different attitudes in the issue,

and therefore to make better choices, less

ineffective decisions.

Cognition enables to use the synergy of

the team, based on the strengths of its

members.


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Trust


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Trust is a positive emotion shown to other people, objects or institutions.

It should be mutual. Trust is a faith in defined actions or properties.

It often even means convincing one of the parties, that our motivation towards them is

being honest and willing to act well . We are giving trust the person we believe, that

he will be giving us good advice, thinking about us,

rather than about himself. Apart from the law and common objectives, mutual

trust is one of the basic bonds of the society. (Wikipedia)


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Trust in the job of the manager constitutes the important component of building effective teams.

It also constitutes a basis for management techniques exploited by the manager, such as:

management by objectives, managing by exceptions and other.

Without trust which the manager gives members of his team it is impossible to achieve above average

results over the long period of time.It is a manager who is responsible for creating the

atmosphere of trust in the team.Along with trust, in the job of the manager using

simple rules and test tools is also worthwile(not to reduce

the freedom).


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Concern, sense of

responsibility, respect,

cognition

and trust are independent of

one another.

They are a set of attitudes,

we meet in the adult, mature

man…


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A manager

should be adult and mature,

since he is responsible not only

for himself but also for others.

He affects the realization of

their dreams, of objectives, the

possibility to achieve…


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Adult, that is who develops his forces

productively, who wants to have only,

what he worked for himself,

who resigned from narcissistic daydreams

about the infinite wisdom and of

omnipotence, who achieved the humility

based

on the inner force, which truly productive

activity and faith in other people can give.


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conscious man

=

conscious

manager


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Managing in the

‘humane’ dimension is a

part of our normal

behaviours, characteristic

of

e.g. love…


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„The spirit and the nature aren't

separate

and different from each other, the

intuition and mind must recover

meaning,

as means of perception and

merging internal human nature

with the outside reality…”

E. Fromm


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Erich Fromm…

A philosopher, a sociologist, a psychologist.

Born in 1900 in Frankfurt on Menem, died 18 March 1980 in Muralto near

Locarno.He studied in Heildelbergu, Munich and at Psychoanalytical Institute in

Berlin.

Along with Hitler gaining the power in 1934 he emigrated to the U.S, where he worked in the Institiute for Social Research in New York.

He lectured at the University of Colombia, Yale and State Michigan, in Bennington College and in William Alanson White Institiute of

Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology…Fromm is an author of: Escape from Freedom, Man for Himself, The

Forgotten Language and May Man Prevail…


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In the presentation quotations and materials from the Erich'a Fromm‘s book „The art of loving” were used.

Traslation: Joanna WierzbowskaTraslation: Joanna Wierzbowska

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EN Love & Management Part 1 - Manage or Die Inspirations 2012