In my last post, I discussed Middle Way Management™ and accountability. Middle Way Managers™ excel at holding everyone--superiors, colleagues, team members, suppliers, customers--to the highest possible ethical and quality standards. The honesty and candor with which you hold others accountable is the same treatment you should expect in return. In this post, I will consider how a solid and accessible community of Middle Way Management practitioners can help keep your momentum going.
Friends, Romans, Fellow Middle Way Managers...
Middle Way Management is a new approach to leading and managing people. This means it will be difficult at first to find a community of Middle Way Managers in your neighborhood. As people and organizations begin to adopt the approach, it will become increasingly easier to find such groups. Until then, you can rely on me and the Middle Way Management Web site (http://www.MiddleWayManagement.com) for support, information, teachings, and comfort as you develop your practice.
Regardless of the community's size, it's important you make a regular and concerted effort to interact with other Middle Way Managers. Those with more experience will offer counsel and support. Likewise, opportunities for you to share your own invaluable experience with others will appear seemingly from nowhere. Your contact with this group should be on a regular schedule so it reinforces what you are already accomplishing in your organization. As the community continues to grow nationwide, and then worldwide, networks and groups will show up on social networking sites such as LinkedIn (http://www.LinkedIn.com).
What Have You Done For Me Lately?
As a Middle Way Manager, building the Middle Way Management community is a special opportunity for you to exercise your management muscles. I highly recommend you assume the role of evangelist, it's a lot of fun and you'll meet a lot of wonderful people. Social networking, Web sites, articles, presentations--general advocacy is what will make Middle Way Management a strong and lasting approach. I have big plans and I'd like you to be a part of them. Please keep me posted on your progress and let me know when, where, and how I can be of service to you.
My future plans include the creation of a survey instrument intended to measure the "level" of Middle Way Management in organizations. I'm currently putting together an expert leadership panel to conduct a Delphi study intended to refine the items for such an instrument. I will conduct a limited field study (expect a request from me for participation soon) followed up by a full-blown survey study that will result in a journal article describing and explaining the dynamics of Middle Way Management. The outcomes of this study will also be included in the book when it comes out in the first quarter of 2010.
In my next post, I will discuss Middle Way Management and the role of equanimity in your daily practice. When you maintain an even keel, you present a model of composure that is a constant example of what it means to manage with compassion, empathy, sympathy, and kindness.
Until then, keep at it--you are the heart and soul of Middle Way Management!
Onward! Darin
Copyright © 2009, Darin R. Molnar, PhD. All rights reserved.
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