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DIARY: March 28, 1996 07:30 AM Thursday; Rod Welch

Called Hank Hatch at Fluor re closing speaker at Asilomar.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Leadership is Imploding
3...PMBOK Defines Leadership
4...Leadership Aide Needed Because on Information Highway
5...Not Enough Time to Prepare, to Understand, to Succeed
6...Morris Jones - New Tools, Skills, Roles


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Fluor Daniel Corporation           703 247 7723 fax or 800...
020101 - Mr. Henry J. Hatch; Vice President =703 247 7723

SUBJECTS
General Hatch, Fluor/Corps of Engineers
Biography
Leadership is Imploding
Imploding on Information Highway
Obstacles to Leadership, Caused by &
Preparation, Be Prepared

0908 -    ..
0909 - Summary/Objective
0910 -
091001 - Followed up work at ref SDS 23 line 76.
091002 -
091003 - Called and left message we need confirmation of Hank's biography for
091004 - advertising, suggested he give key note address on Friday, and I
091005 - submitted a draft ref OF 5 line 27, submitted via ref DIT 1 line 30,
091006 - to confirm Hank's participation at Asilomar.
091007 -
091008 -      [See follow up at ref SDS 30 line 132.]
091009 -
091010 - Had a later discussion with Bill on Hatch, Morris, leadership, and
091011 - confirmed understandings via email at ref DIT 2 line 31.
091012 -
091013 -
0911 -
0912 -
0913 - Progress
0914 -
091401 - Hank's secretary said he is traveling today.  I left a voice mail
091402 - asking him to verify we are on track for the event, and the biography
091403 - I submitted at ref SDS 23 line 82 via ref DIP 7 line 30.
091404 -
091405 - I did not mention that the Committee has given consideration to having
091406 - him make some opening remarks Saturday morning or Friday night.
091407 -
091408 -        Hank's fax:  703 247 7720
091409 -
091410 -        Lori Bacon
091411 -
091412 -
091413 -
0915 -
0916 -
0917 - 0750 called Bill
0918 -
091801 - Advised of message to the General.  Bill said Sherrill is concerned
091802 - his contact at Kaiser has not been able to reach Hank, ref SDS 19 line
091803 - 294.  Since they have to publish the agenda, they want confirmation of
091804 - Hank's schedule to do the event.
091805 -
091806 - I told him I will send Hank a draft letter to confirm his
091807 - participation.  Bill suggested that Hank fax it to Millie so he can
091808 - take it to the Asilomar Committee meeting this week.
091809 -
091810 -     [See results Hank dropped from Asilomar, ref SDS 28 line 125.]
091811 -
091812 -
091813 -  ..
0919 -
0920 -
0921 - 1007 submitted letter to Hatch on "Be Prepared"
0922 -
092201 - I prepared ref DIT 1 line 30 with the confirmation draft letter to
092202 - Sherrill McDonald which I prepared at ref OF 5 line 27.
092203 -
092204 - This letter sets up an opening keynote address a the key leadership
092205 - issue of being prepared, per ref OF 3 line 110, which was developed at
092206 - ref SDS 24 4385, and considered again at ref SDS 25 6933.  In the
092207 - letter to Hank, I used the examples focused on preparation at ref SDS
092208 - 24 6870.
092209 -
092210 -      [See results at Asilomar, ref SDS 32 line 139.]
092211 -
092212 -
092213 -  ..
0923 -
0924 -
0925 - 2106 Bill called back
0926 -
092601 - He said the meeting with Sherrill devoted a lot of time to considering
092602 - alternative language about the thesis.  Bill feels strongly, it needs
092603 - to be set in order to identify the speakers and scope.  He indicated
092604 - Sherrill wanted to spend more time on identifying speakers.
092605 -
092606 -
092607 -
092608 - Leadership is Imploding
092609 -
092610 - They have the idea General Hatch can spend 45 minutes or so defining
092611 - leadership, per ref OF 5 line 33.  Actually, there is no apparent
092612 - scope for Hatch anywhere in Sherrill's agenda, ref OF 5 line 10.
092613 -
092614 - Bill is concerned this may be over exposure for the General and place
092615 - excess demands on his time to prepare two presentations.  At this time
092616 - we have asked him to make a 15 minute talk on "Prepare to Succeed."
092617 - Bill said Sherrill wants a longer presentation. There was disagreement
092618 - on whether this talk should define fundamental challenges "of"
092619 - leadership or "to" leadership.
092620 -
092621 - Actually, there is no indication in Sherrill's agenda ref OF 5 line 33
092622 - reveived at ref SDS 26 line 83, for Hatch to deliver an Ambassadors of
092623 - Change presentation, per, ref SDS 4 line 422.  In fact there is no
092624 - Friday or Sunday schedule.  There is no Saturday schedule.  The only
092625 - apparent scope for him would be the first speaker on how technology
092626 - affects leadership, and that is not the scope for which Hatch was
092627 - recruited and agreed to support the event, ref SDS 12 line 77. Someone
092628 - needs to figure out the elements of this scope and then present it to
092629 - Hatch and see if he wants to address it.
092630 -
092631 -     [See follow up at ref SDS 29 line 86.]
092632 -
092633 - We considered how the Asilomar planning efforts reflect the challenge
092634 - of leadership.  The meeting with Morris at Chips and with Marcy at
092635 - Intel showed how people want to start talking before looking at the
092636 - record to prepare a foundation of common understanding for building
092637 - new understandings, ref SDS 27 line 142.  Over and over we had to
092638 - suggest to Morris and Marcy, lets look at the documents.  When we
092639 - finally did, we found much of the perceived disagreements were
092640 - resolved, ref SDS 27 line 195.
092641 -
092642 - Bill and I considered this evening the entire Asilomar event could be
092643 - devoted to defining leadership by itself.  Or, we could just use the
092644 - traditional notion of the "boss" as the guy who gives the orders,
092645 - signs the checks, tells people what to do, gives instructions, directs
092646 - the work.
092647 -
092648 -
092649 -
092650 -
0927 -

SUBJECTS
Leadership, Definition
PMBOK, ISO 10006 Compliance

1105 -
110501 - PMBOK Defines Leadership
110502 -
110503 - A good approach might be to use the new PMBOK as a source for defining
110504 - leadership.  It was reviewed at ref SDS 1 line 101. Since we are
110505 - meeting under the auspicies of PMI, maybe we can use it for a baseline
110506 - from which to consider the event theme to look at the impact of
110507 - technology on leadership.
110508 -
110509 -      [See paper for Morris at ref SDS 31 line 144.]
110510 -
110511 - Bill found the definition in the old PMBOK and described a sentence
110512 - about encouraging performance by influencing people.  I asked if
110513 - leadership says anything about setting objectives.  Bill said it
110514 - doesn't.  I later found that the new PMBOK covers this point at ref OF
110515 - 1 line 1300.
110516 -
110517 - In any case Bill feels it makes sense to use the PMBOK to define
110518 - leadership, then ask how technology can help, after beginning with how
110519 - it is harming.  Interestingly the new PMBOK section 2.4.1 says
110520 - leadership must align people through communication, ref OF 1 line
110521 - 1305.
110522 -
110523 - I explained the discussions with General Hatch on presenting the ideas
110524 - on leadership in the POIMS paper delivered in 1994 to the Vancouver
110525 - conference, ref OF 2 line 639, and in the NWO paper which will be
110526 - published in May, ref OF 3 line 770.
110527 -
110528 -
110529 -
110530 -
1106 -

SUBJECTS
Time - Too Busy Being Busy
New World Order
Prepared for Work
Leadership Aide
Leadership in Fast Lane
Obstacles to Leadership, Caused by &
Leadership Aide Ensures SDS Record is

1810 -
181001 - Leadership Aide Needed Because on Information Highway
181002 - Not Enough Time to Prepare, to Understand, to Succeed
181003 -
181004 - The challenges to leadership are in being prepared, per letter to
181005 - General Hatch, discussed above and at ref DIT 1 line 38, understanding
181006 - the correlations, implications and connections between new information
181007 - and existing understandings relative to objectives, where information
181008 - comes faster than the mind can correctly create these connections,
181009 - following up to ensure that understandings are incorporated correctly
181010 - into the workflow, so adequate attention is given to work that needs
181011 - to be done.  People say there is not enough time to meet these
181012 - challenges.  They say there is not enough time to analyse, to think
181013 - and remember on the Information Highway.  People say there is not
181014 - enough time to maintain shared meaning over time of what the leader
181015 - says, because other information people receive after the leader speaks
181016 - crowds out preservation of the connections between the leaders
181017 - brilliant speech on charging forward and what was said previously,
181018 - what was committed in the letter, what is required in the contract.
181019 - These challenges arise from the compression of time and distance by
181020 - technology.  This fits the Asilomar theme.  Conferees want to know
181021 - what technology, skills and roles can help meet these challenges.
181022 -
181023 -
181024 -
181025 -
1811 -

SUBJECTS
Chips, Morris Jones, V.P., Founder

1904 -
1905 -   ..
190501 - Morris Jones - New Tools, Skills, Roles
190502 - 
190503 - The idea of having General Hatch do this seems to leave open the scope
190504 - for Morris Jones to define these new tools, skills and roles, instead
190505 - of laying out more obstacles to leadership than General Hatch will
190506 - have already layed out.  We only have a few hours.
190507 -
190508 - Of course as we have seen in meeting with Morris on Tuesday, once we
190509 - get past the title, we can fill up that empty vessle in a variety of
190510 - ways.  It might be worthwhile though for someone to write an
190511 - explanation when someone asks what are the differences between the
190512 - challenges to leadership and the obstacles to leadership.  But, why
190513 - waste the time.  Why not let Morris explain the solutions to the
190514 - problems Hatch sets out?
190515 -
190516 - Submitted via internet ref DIT 2 line 30 to Bill confirming these
190517 - ideas.
190518 -
190519 -      [See paper written for Morris on obstacles to leadership, ref SDS
190520 -      31 line 135.]
190521 -
190522 -
1906 -
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