Building Capacity for Orderliness and Organization
The Transformational leadership mind is an organized mind. Orderliness is the wise & intelligent arrangement/ organization of the priorities in your life. It is termed the Law of sequence, what comes first, second and what takes the last seat in your mind.
Without order in your life, you will realize that you will only be busy but without commensurate results.
For humans, there is capacity limitation in time and space, and we must spread things overtime. Every Events, Moments, People, Instructions, and words must be prioritized according to patterns and principles guiding them. Prioritization becomes necessary because once an action is executed, the consequences may not be within your control again, or you will need another action to mitigate or eradicate the consequences especially when its negative.
The degree of success, and perhaps greatness that you will birth and the excellence that you will achieve in life is a function of the order in your life. “The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order” – Alfred North Whitehead. Order explains that there is a difference in the value, uniqueness and in the responsibility required to maintain leadership.
“God does not help people set their lives in order; it is your personal responsibility.”
And you must with diligence, discipline and determination commit to having an organized mind. Order is a dimension of wisdom. It’s a function like Honor. It is your personal responsibility to defend and arrange your growth from spiritual, mental, emotional.
physical, economic, financial, social, and relationship health. We are always in a fight for orderliness in life. Life by its very nature has lot of negative entropy. The more the degree of Order you pursue as a nation, society, organization and individual, the more the productivity and transformation of the minds of your people.
The success of your degree of orderliness rests on effective planning. Order separates achievers of greatness from ordinary dreamers. Someone or a group of people is always responsible for the degree of the order you find in a system. Therefore, you must honor the sacrifice of those people and respect the order in a system.
Order allows you to:
- Prioritize Divine Principles, intangible core values ahead of human rules, tangibles values
- Prioritize you time, sanity, rest, health, meaning, purpose, destiny – Place high value on growing your capacity to love, lead, to learn and transform.
- Prioritize family and helping them develop their capacities
- Prioritize your Socio-Economic Work and build capacity for technical competence and excellence.
- Prioritize intangible values ahead of their tangible counterparts always. Examples – the quality of your thinking, Power of positive declarations, Strength of Character, Depth of your inner joy, strength of your compassion, strength of courage.
Nations with the wisdom to manufacture an airplane will always be richer than nations that purchase and uses the plane. The thinking that generates a million dollars is far important than the one million dollars generated.
What is needed for orderliness in your life and society?
- Courage – Be a man of Strong Esteem. You need to keep going on in the face of odds, to keep declaring strength in the face of adversity, to fight the MINDS culture that seeks to bring or keep you down. (MINDS) – Manipulation, Intimidation, Negative Negotiation, Domination, & Socialization
- Light – Knowledge, Revelation, & Wisdom – You cannot rise above the level of light and knowledge. The Law of Leadership Lid by John C. Maxwell.
- Power – it’s the rate of consumption of available energy. For Action and for Speed. Power fuels Passion, Focus, Courage, and thirst for knowledge.
- Strategic Focus – Ability to stay on course consistently. Requires the pains of discipline.
- Effective Planning – Ability to carefully craft out a plan uniquely geared towards results and outcomes.
Orderliness - Benefits of Order
- Let me start with a counter-example. Disorder Births – Pain of indiscipline, Confusion, emptiness, losses, Embarrassment, Crisis, Reactions, Darkness, Sorrow, Diseases, and Death.
- Order Births: Safety, Peace, Quality Thinking, Productivity, Fruitfulness & Multiplications, Response, Joy & Beauty, Rest, Purpose
The People of the world will continue to migrate from the region of disorderliness to that order to seek better power and control over their lives. No one wants to live in chaos with a very high degree of unpredictability, volatility, and complexities. It is associated with suffering and conflicts. I trust that you will take responsibility for putting your life in order and embrace the pain of discipline required for transformational leadership.
Continuous Quality Improvement
The formal approach at the assessment of quality, safety or equity and systematic data and measurement-guided efforts to improve outcomes within a context.
Assumptions of Continuous Quality Improvements
There is a current situation, desired outcome and performance gap between the two that we must quit blame game and embrace teamwork, engage systems thinking and establish a just culture – that rebukes people for their recklessness and accommodates people’s weakness and systems challenges.
That there will be resistance, some resources restriction, but we will pull through if we hold on long enough.
That capacity building is essential and must be done regularly.
That leadership commitment is key to success and we all must take charge as stakeholders.
We have to see from the eyes of value to the customer, leadership excellence and updated technical excellence.
If we fail to take charge now, the cost of solving it will always increase. Quality improvements always comes at a cost.
There are systems that are working efficiently and effectively and its simply because there are dedicated people who make it work.
The Five Dimensions of Continuous Quality Improvement
Process Focus
Customer Focus
Data-based decision making
Employee/Staff empowerment
Systems or Organizational – wide thinking
Models for driving Continuous quality improvements.
Process Focus
Customer Focus
a) PDSA
P – PLAN; plan ahead for change, analyze and predict the results
D – DO; Execute the plan, taking small steps in controlled circumstances
S – STUDY; study the results
A – ACT; take action to standardize or improve the process
(Referred to as Shewhart/Deming Cycle)
Data-based decision making
Employee/Staff empowerment
Systems or Organizational – wide thinking
The 10-step quality improvement process
What do we want to accomplish?
Who cares about what we do and what do they care about?
What are we doing now and how well are we doing it?
What can we do better?
What’s preventing us from doing better?
What changes can we make to do better?
Keep doing.
How did we do it? Try again if necessary.
If it worked, how can we do it every time?
What did we learn? Let’s celebrate?
b) Another process for improvement is Six Sigma.
AGILE LEADERS EMBRACE THE SIX SIGMA MODEL
-DEFINE
– MEASURE; with data (data speaks the voice of the process when well analyzed)
– ANALYZE
– DESIGN (for new product) /IMPROVE (for existing product)
– VERIFY (new product) /CONTROL (existing product)
c) TRIP MODEL (4Es + 2Es)
Engage all stakeholders.
Educate people to develop the culture.
Execute – the real work.
Evaluate – Measure the process and progress through data.
Embed – policy-drive the process once its working.
Expand – scale-up
Summarized By Dr.Joshua Kolawole
(MD, MBA, MASc., FISQua, CPHQ, PMP)
Agile Program Manager & Transformational Leadership Expert, Valdymas Intelligence LLC, Grand Prairie, Texas, USA.
valdymas@valdymasintelligence.org