| If you're a manager working in a business that wants | | | | manager has to come to terms with the spiritual |
| to become successful in the 21st century, then you | | | | dimension of work. |
| need to embrace the 8 archetypal roles of the | | | | "The first responsibility of a leader is to define |
| New-Age Manager.1. Prophet. The new-age manager | | | | reality. The last is to say thank you." (Max DePree)6. |
| stands out from others by their ability to see | | | | Pioneer. The one thing that new-age managers have |
| possibilities that others don't see. He or she doesn't | | | | to live with that their forefathers didn't is constant |
| just have a goal for the team to reach, but a vision | | | | change. They have to both create and tear down, |
| of something exciting and unique. | | | | build and destroy. They have to set themselves on |
| "Some people see things as they are and ask | | | | one course only to make a sharp U-turn and do |
| "Why?" I see things that are not and never were | | | | something else when conditions dictate. The modern |
| and ask "Why not?"." (George Bernard Shaw)2. | | | | manager is like the frontiersman or woman of old, |
| Partner. The days when the manager was someone | | | | seeking new lands and new adventures every |
| who stood above the workforce or lived in a | | | | day."You have to leave the city of your comfort and |
| separate part of the business have long gone. Today, | | | | go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you |
| the manager is a key player in the team, a part of it | | | | discover will be wonderful. You'll discover yourself." |
| as well as apart from it. He or she is a key partner | | | | (Alan Alda)7. Persuader. One thing that hasn't |
| serving the team and in turn being served by it. | | | | changed from the past is the key role that managers |
| "The thing that lies at the foundation of positive | | | | play in communicating with others. In fact, they have |
| change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow | | | | to be even better at communicating than ever. They |
| human being." (Lech Walesa)3. Performer. The | | | | need to be articulate as well as silent. They need to |
| new-age manager gets results. This is because he or | | | | coach as well as be coached. They need to speak to |
| she works with the team, knows what they want, | | | | people's minds as well as to their hearts. If the ability |
| and has the skills to communicate their vision to | | | | to make a case was a crucial skill of old, then in the |
| others. The workplace becomes a dynamic and | | | | future one of the most valuable skills will be the skill |
| exciting place to be. And everyone performs out of | | | | to persuade."Nothing is so potent as the silent |
| their skin. | | | | influence of a good example." (James Kent)8. Pilgrim. |
| "If you want to stand out, don't be different, be | | | | In the stories of the past, one of the heroic |
| outstanding." (Meredith West)4. Poet. It may sound | | | | archetypes was the figure of the pilgrim who goes |
| strange to talk about the manager as a poet but as | | | | on a journey to discover treasures and ends up |
| an articulator of the deeper meaning of the values of | | | | discovering himself. That's an apt way to end these |
| the workplace and a communicator of emotions as | | | | descriptions of the modern manager. He or she is an |
| well as information, this is what he or she is."He who | | | | adventurer who goes into the unknown, a |
| is certain he knows the end of things when he is only | | | | dream-seeker, a wanderer for whom the journey will |
| beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely | | | | always be more important than the destination."You |
| foolish. No matter which is true, he is certainly an | | | | cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking |
| unhappy man for he has put a knife in the heart of | | | | trail. Dare to break through the barriers, to find your |
| wonder." (Tad Williams)5. Philosopher. The reason | | | | own path." (Les Brown)© Eric Garner, |
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