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Five Power Dilemmata in Scientific Expert Organisations For Support and Administrative Work Universities as Scientific Expert Organisations Scientific community home, standards for success, education, credits, Free top- High
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Universities as Scientific “Expert Organisations”
Scientific community home, standards for success, education, credits, … High number of highly qualified professionals Organisation tends to drift apart Management is underrated “Free” top- professionals, War for talents Professionals in (top) management Support and administration are undervalued
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Core Dilemma Power-over, power-under relations are unconsciously embedded in expert
- rganisations regarding administration, support
and management and at the same time Support, administration and leadership are urgently needed for seeing and acting through the whole and holding the organisation together.
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Power With Connection Empathy Self-empower Stepping up Letting go Grief Power against Fairness Aggression Power over Power under Survival Fear
Five Power Qualities Power Awareness
Power for A shared Future Embracing Whole Joy
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Dilemma: Support and administration have to take on shared leadership Although They often do not have the formal power function
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Formal structures have different power complexity and leadership requests
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Dilemma: Support and administration have to embrace all structures and power qualities in order to lead although Being just one part of the whole at the same time
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Dilemma: Support and administration have to take
- n a future co-creating and service-oriented
leadership as service Although Leadership as service is often seen as leadership from the power-over, power-under perception.
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Clear, linear power structures are stable and unquestionable Powerless Victim Not knowing Dependent Powerful Perpetrator Knowing Responsible
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Stepping up Own Intention Motivation Risk: being seen Collaboration Touch, connect accept Risk: being rejected Co-creating future Unknown future Act-learn-act-learn Risk: being blamed
Complex structures
- pen for the future
- f the whole organisation
and require leadership as service
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Dilemma
Short term Top-down tasks Consciously or unconsciously Long term leadership Open and hold space, structures, utopia, co-create
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Give away Power Borrow Power Stepping into own Awareness and voice Embracing in love Used to external power Authentic power
Dilemma
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Fear Separates Excludes Love Unites Embraces
Dilemma of Emotions
Solution Awareness Choice
Challenge Dilemma
Attribution of guilt to others
Reflex: fear, guilt, powerless Choice: love, Authentic power
Share responsibility for the structures, cultures, growth for the future of the whole system Disconnect: Talk negative about others exclude oneself and others Connect, embrace and integrate
- neself and others into utopia
Co-creating future Being an active part , Disguise own voice for future
Love – Fear
My voice and actions have an impact Unconscious reaction Cultural habits
We need an awareness for the power patterns we generate with each thought and action
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Nobody has the right to obey
Hannah Arendt
With great power comes great responsibility
Spider Man
Power without love is reckless Love without power is sentimental
Martin Luther King
When we own the story we can write the ending
Brenè Brown
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Maria has been an
- rganisational consultant
for more than 25 years at universities, foundations, and administrative and political organisations as well as in economics (including the finance and insurance sectors and the production industries), She is book author, lecturer at universities and speaker
- n organised power relations
for inventing tailor-made
- rganisations, leadership