Reasoned Audacity

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Are You Controlling Events, or
Are Events Controlling You?

This is a brief introduction to the Managing Management Time (tm) Leadership Equation,

It has been said that "no manager" is an island.

Where your performance is a combination of the competencies -- skills, traits and proficiencies -- you bring to the job and the Organizational Molecular Support that is provided by your Boss, Peers and Staff.

In the "real world" -- where most of us live most of the time! -- the "demand" for this support almost always exceeds the available "supply".

This means there is and will continue to be competition for those limited resources.

Amateurs believe they have an inherent right to the support they need.

Oncken professionals know that the support must be earned.

While the "luck element" is inescapably a factor in results, it must not be a component of the individual's performance evaluation.

Oncken's Third Law summarizes our strategy for dealing with the "luck element" in life, where,

Each individual must so marshal his competencies and molecular resources that he is able to:

Capitalize on good luck when it occurs (as an opportunist),
Reach his objectives as planned when luck is neutral, and
Exercise maximum damage control (as a troubleshooter) when bad luck occurs.

While the "luck element" is inescapably a factor in results, it must not be a component of the individual's performance evaluation.

Oncken's Fourth Law warns that:

If you want to build a culture characterized by creativity, effective execution and high morale, your people must only be evaluated (and thus rewarded or reprimanded) for what they can control or influence, and NOT for the 'luck element' in their jobs.

This requires that "Criteria" be established against which performance will be evaluated, irrespective of the results achieved. "Criteria", as used here, are NOT, themselves, shorter term goals and objectives.

If we had to reduce the mission statement or vision statement of any manager or leader to only two words, it would be to:

Control Events.

Simply stated, if we are not controlling events, then they will be controlling us.

To even have a shot at controlling events, it presupposes the ability to simultaneously do three (3!) things:

1) Anticipate critical future events which impact on the organization.

2) Be flexible enough to adapt to changing circumstances in the present.

3) Be able to learn from past experiences (both our own and those of others).

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Management MythsSince its founding in 1960, the mission of The William Oncken Corporation has been to provide training that will best position each individual in their organizations to control events.

The action verbs -- anticipate, adapt and learn -- describe our continuing responsibilities wherever we are in our careers.

For more information, please contact:

The William Oncken Corporation
3522 Gus Thommasson Rd. Suite 112
Mesquite, TX 75150 USA
Phone: (972) 613-2084
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