New Order Leaders

"People don't always have the vision,
and the secret for the person
with the vision is to stand up.
It takes a lot of courage."
--Natalie Cole

To everyone: Don't miss reading these incredible statements of intention. They are very inspiring! Feel free to contact anyone who is on a mission that calls to you; "new orders" always need more support. And, it's never too late to state your intention to lead a new order.

To all of you leaders who stated your intentions: Congratulations! What amazing challenges you have taken on and what courage to publicly state your intentions! One person can make a difference -- thanks to each of you for your courage.

From: John, jat@rio.com
This is the first time I have written in to this list. I have been receiving it for years and I read when I get the chance. But something just struck me. I have just now come from the funeral of a friend. A friend who has left a wife and 2 small children fatherless. I am going to make sure those kids still have a father figure in their lives. I'm not sure how to do this just that I know it must be done and that no one else will do it.

From: BradPotter@aol.com
I am taking the lead in a new order of things in my Rotary club. I have been to Haiti 3 times in the past ten years. Each visit brings me home with an appreciation for what I have, and my good fortune to be an American. It is sad that these people are hurting and the subject of International abuse partially because of color. The regimes of Castro and of the long line of Haitian Military rulers are equally corrupt, yet Cubans are welcomed and protected, Haitians are returned.

I will challenge my club and my church to rise above racial divides, and do something to help these wonderful people. And I will do more than I have done in the past...

From: MLDAURAY@aol.com
I am very, very motivated to encourage those who have reached 50 to reasses their lives in order to employ every kind of tool within reach to maintain positive, creative and healthy attitudes. My work is in the field of residential and commercial interior design, and I have increasingly been focusing my business on promoting positive approaches and suggestions for home modifications based on universal design principals. This means the designing and modifying of the home or office so that anyone, at any age, with any ability or disability, can reside or work in the home or office for the longest possible time. Many people do not want even to listen to me discuss this topic, primarily because they do not want to address the topic of aging, but I continue on nevertheless.

I would welcome any support, suggestions, or ideas in this area.

From: Jane M. Lump, lumpjane@niia.net
I'm very excited about energizing some volunteer organizations I'm working with. There can be a lot of inefficiency and frustration in some volunteer groups, and sometimes busy, talented people get turned off. I want to use my background to facilitate a fun, creative, problem solving climate that encourages teamwork and produces results that maximize the return on the time and effort people give. I'd like to help make volunteering easy, effective, and rewarding in these organizations. In turn, we can promote the value of volunteerism to a broader audience (especially to kids) through the scholarship and education programs we sponsor. I just saw an anonymous quote that said you spend the first 40 years of your life exploring the outer world and the second 40 on the inner. Maybe the next generation can blend the two a little better than
we have!

From: Barre Fitzpatrick, barre@iol.ie
I am going to help people to realise the rich resource they have in their creative imagination, by running a series of workshops beginning this month, called the 'Innner Yonder'.

From: SLRUNNER@aol.com
To bring the spirit of FISH! to nursing homes and assisted living centers.

(editor's note: While Steve is too modest to explain what "FISH!" is, you should note that it's a video about the Fish Market in Seattle. In my opinion, it is the BEST video available on team work and corporate culture. You can get a preview copy by emailing Steve at the address above. He will also be showing it and talking about it at Convergence 2000. JW)

From: "Roggen, Nancy", NRoggen@us.imshealth.com
Powerful quote in it's full context. I hold the thought that I want to embrace the positive aspects of Change while being aware of the fear people hold when considering something new. I want to make change attractive so people who might be fearful of change will find their own reasons for joining in creating the new reality.

I've found that people are much less resistant when they are choosing change. When change is forced on people, then they dig in their heels and resist the new.

From: Jacqueline Beckley, theuandigroup@dellnet.com
Regarding the new order - I joined a company a few years ago because the EVP was an innovator. She left about a year ago and I am now gone - one of the last of her innovation group - guess it is the closest to "killing" someone an organization can get when the ideas work but are way too scary! Keep up the insight.

From: Donna Fitzgerald, donfitz@TheRamp.net
I send my thanks for validating a procedure I mentally have been wrestling with for over a year. It is alright to try something different to cause a very worthwhile organization to bounce forward. If we don't have opposition we sometimes miss the path toward becoming more forceful and moving toward the betterment of everything the organization touches. Isn't this reason enough for trying?

From: Douglas E. Noll, den@lrp.org
I am a trial lawyer "in recovery" now completing my Masters Degree in Peacemaking and Conflict Studies. I also teach law. I have dedicated myself for the next 20 years to change the way lawyers practice law from an adversarial, competitive model to a cooperative constructive model.

Big enough vision for you? (ed: yes, but we'll miss the lawyer jokes!)

From: Frank Koepcke, Cre-aktiv@t-online.de
I will take a lead in preparing people from all kinds of businesses in Germany for the 21st century in creativity and innovation.

From: Kari Skogberg, kari@routing.se
I am a bit tired on statements like "This is a strategic matter" , " "the management must be part of it"... etc.
These statements will not lead us anywhere! Theoretically , by definition then all tasks must be brought up on a board meeting...which I think is higly unpractical.
Therefore - I urge for solutions based on a NEW ORDER- which excludes the necessity to forward everything to the top. At least, why not ask the top management within corporations, what their priorities are- and foremost- why is the solutions that narrow within structure - that they need a hierarchy?

From: Anne Robinson, anniecreate@hotmail.com
About the NEW ORDER, I'm actually tackling the OLD ORDER: the way the U.S. in particular treats its aging people --- from the age of 40 on.

Our country is one of the worst in the world at denigrating people as they advance in age. I say this as a world traveler who has visited 35 different other nations.

At nearly 87 I am trying to counteract this unhappy tendency. For quite some time I have taught workshops on CREATIVE AGING -- a fascinating subject. Now I have finished writing an audio series titled WHAT'S NEW ABOUT GETTING OLD-er? Aging With Attitude! and am seeking $l2,000 for its production. I think it is greatly needed because it spells out (with l3 interesting interviews of outstanding people) how we can take the tarnish off of our golden years. It indicates how people are successfully and productively living past l00. I make a strong point of the fact that successful aging is better started when one is young but that it's never too late to improve one's future worth to one's self and to the world. I could go on at length but at this point will leave room for other NEW ORDER ideas.

From: jeff hutner, concept@jetlink.net
Developing my personal new order of things has two fronts: evolutionary business which connects the dots of socially responsible business, ecology, spirituality, chaos theory and the feminine about which I am presently writing an article/book and my eos vision which will offer guests a nurturing social temple in which to gather and celebrate cultural and social joy, wisdom and evolution.

From: DCarver262@aol.com
I am going to change the way that 3,000 sales representatives sell our product in the new century. To do this, I will:
Take a very regulated, inefficient sales process, that has been around for 25 years and destroy it.. and through the act of destruction
Delight our customers who will continue to be able to try our products at no cost, yet reduce the amount of time and $ they spend to manage this process.
Free up so much time for my field sales force, that they can spend more time with more customers talking about our products.. and why they make a difference. ...
Return $10,000,000, my current cost to "administer" this process, to my marketing department, so they can spend it on other ways to sell our product.
Surprise my competition.. so I can't say anything more.. that would spoil the fun. Wish Me Luck! (ed: only if you promise to give us an update!)

From: Mary Anne Lindskog, mlindsk@emory.edu
Yes, it is time to take the lead in establishing a new order, and I am committed to doing so in at least a couple ways. This is a new time, a grand new beginning--the old rules need not constrict us any longer. It is time to figure out that life is exactly how we choose to respond to things that happen, how we hold our plans and dreams loosely in the palm of our hand while meeting daily challenges by being here now.

Two things: at a conference on Women in Higher Education in Minnesota in March, I am presenting a session on balancing career and family, based on what I've learned through experience. I expect to learn from others at the session, too, for I look forward to hearing their stories and learning from those. There is much we can learn through our own experience of life, if we are open to learning this way. What a "new" thought (for me, at least)! Don't we only learn from "the classics," the works of others who are learned and hallowed? Of course we learn some things that way, but we only REALLY learn what applies to our lives at that time, what we can incorporate to further direct our experience. I have finally figured out that nearly half a century of living has enabled me to learn much, and to rely on the wisdom I have gained--to test it, to compare it to what others have learned, and to see how I may need to change what I know and believe.

Secondly, in teaching a course this semester, I am taking the risk of using a book that is "non-traditional" in this subject area, yet it is a book that I think applies perhaps more than any other to the subject. It certainly carries forth the principles that we'll also read in the "classics" in this course. What's more, it lets me see how my students, a generation younger than I, might interpret the message that living life fully means "playing to win," rather than "playing not to lose." (The book is Larry Wilson's Play to Win.)

So I'm up to two new and exciting ways to begin a new order for the second half of my life, and I couldn't be happier! I look forward to others' responses.

From: OrdrInKaos@aol.com
I'm taking the lead in establishing the New Order of helping people make peace with the parts of themselves that they have disowned and that show up to haunt them in their work relationships until they are re-owned and appreciated. I'll be addressing the issue of moving out of a good/bad definition of ourselves and our actions and impulses and into valuing the creative tension of our inconsistencies. Look for books, articles, keynotes and training sessions and push on me if you don't see them forthcoming. Stories and examples are also MOST welcome! Thanks for helping me keep my brain awake on a regular basis. Linda Boardman (Fite)

From: Debbie Baker, d.baker@ix.netcom.com
I read this the first time, thought of something, and backed away from the visceral response I'd felt. I thought it over and decided to declare my intention to share my belief in God and the blessings, strength, solace and salvation He offers.

From: paul_klein@manifestcom.com
Instead of trying to change the world, or even change the world at work, my new order is to start small. I'm, a social marketing consultant and for me this means being absolutely dedicated to introducing an innovation to every new client or project. For example, we generally begin new projects with a orientation session where we talk with the client about the project deliverables, client expectations, available resources and so on. My small innovation to this process has been to start each session by handing out a piece of paper with two questions: What do you expect from the session today? and What do you expect from this project? At the end of the meeting we hand out another sheet of paper with two more questions: What did you get from the session today? and After the session today, what do you expect from the project? It's amazing what effect such simple no-cost idea can have. The clients felt that they were being heard, we got immediate feedback on how successful the session was, and it was interesting and valuable to see how the client's expectations of the project changed during the course of the session. Finally, as a follow-up, I e-mailed the responses to the entire group.

Tall mountains are always climbed in small steps.

From: Kathryn Pepper, kkpepper@worldnet.att.net
Regardless of what new order I'm striving to bring into the world or into my own life, I see "enemies" and "lukewarm defenders" as parts of myself.

These old, conditioned aspects of my psyche become anxious when I'm attempting to take any action or make any change in my usual way of being in the world. Internal critics hold me back, raise self-doubts and cause me much more harm than any actual person ever could. I'm swayed by an external critic only to the extent that my internal critic endorses what they say.

From: NAlston237@aol.com
My intention for the year and beyond is to accept God's purpose for me to influence and encourage the development of others to take action. To encourage people to succeed and inspire them to act.

From: Dianne & Alan Collins, alandianne@stargrouponline.com
In the face of possible criticism and rebuttal, and at the risk of the flush of embarrassment it momentarily gives to me to boldly proclaim that I have distinguished a new system of thinking that alter people's worlds, I take the lead in standing for the value that thinking from a fundamentally different system will be in forwarding our own humanity at its core.

In my heart and soul and inner wisdom of my being, I know that a totally different, new basis for thinking is required for us to evolve as people - one that transcends the "either/or" world that has conditioned our thinking and our actions, and maintained our conflicts and limitations for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years.

To banish trepidation and insecurity that people may be experiencing in our current evolutionary shift, and to create in its place an enthusiastic embrace and authentic conviction for one's own wherewithal to flourish in this new era, I am taking the lead in presenting a "new order" of thinking.

I am doing this by going public with a new system of thinking my partner and I have presented only in corporations until now, that enables people everywhere to take the proverbial quantum leap by thinking from the very operating principles and characteristics at the heart of our new world view.

From: Joyce Wycoff, joyce@thinksmart.com
After a lifetime of "thinking," I feel called to learn how to "be" love and to share that with the world in a way that lets love shine into places of shadow and fear.