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selma, handbook for Revolution & leadership

“Leadership is influence—nothing more, nothing less.”

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Chris Brady

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“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed.

The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion?

And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

Let them take arms.

The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them.
What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

―

Thomas Jefferson

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“Nonviolence is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.”

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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“We just wanted a normal country with cool music.”

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Srdja Popovic

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So.

Oddly.

On the same day I clicked thru a link to something called the “Blueprint for Revolution” I also went to see the movie Selma.

Big sweeping social change rarely happens without a struggle.

Shit.

Any <business, Life, personal, cultural, etc.> dramatic change rarely happens without a struggle.

Revolution is typically the ‘label’ we put on the pain & struggle attached to inspiring change and the struggle itself.

That struggle takes many forms but suffice it to say it is almost always a tug of war between violence and nonviolence.

People violently revolting against change on one end and others violently revolting for change on the other end. And on both sides there is nonviolence … and violence.

While Thomas Jefferson was clearly smarter than I … I differ with one key word he says … the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I don’t agree it must.

Maybe he really meant to say it will.

Even in nonviolent revolution … unfortunately … people get hurt … and there is blood of patriots & tyrants – the blood can be literal or figurative.

The movie Selma, while not exactly correct in details, does showcase the overall struggles found in a nonviolent revolution.

It was a painful movie to watch … as a white man like I am.

It was embarrassing and soul searching.

Would I have done the right thing?

Would I have done anything at all?

Would I have simply said, from wherever I was, “that is somewhere else … not here”?

I know how strongly I feel about equality … but feeling & acting have always been two very very different things.

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“Civil disobedience, that’s not our problem.

Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country.

That’s our problem.”

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Howard Zinn

I tend to believe most of us want to do the right thing but I also believe most of us hesitate to actually do the right thing … particularly within a period of time which anyone could construe as a ‘revolution.’

Revolution sounds big.

It sounds violent <in some form or fashion>.

It sounds anything but nonviolent – mentally & physically.

And excepting for the leaders … most of the rest of us battle with an inner investment & dedication to the revolution.

And then once we elect to ‘invest’ … there lies the ongoing struggle with ‘maintaining commitment.’

And then within that commitment aspect we start running into a lot of ‘personal engagement’ issues … wherein violence feels active and with tangible outcome <aggressive affirmation of commitment> and nonviolence can sometimes feel intangible <less obvious affirmation to our commitment>.

Violent versus nonviolent revolution philosophically is one topic.

Violent versus nonviolent revolution practically is another topic.

Far too often we confuse the two … or maybe we are too flippant with regard to speculative behavior in ourselves versus the existing attitudes we carry within us.

Some want all the spoils of war without fighting the war. And others want the fruits of peace without having to make the sacrifices necessary to preserve peace.

Anyway.

All this leads me to leadership.

Leadership is influence … nothing more and nothing less. Through sheer power of will and conviction a leader can only hope to influence people to follow a vision … within an agreed upon set of actions.

I believe where the movie Selma stepped up to the plate and really soared in its message was not with regard to the social aspects … but with regard to the leadership aspects.

Flawed, human people as leaders.

Leaders with convictions but not always knowing the right answers.

Leaders with unrelenting convictions … and doubts.

Leaders with momentary glimpses of ‘is this worth it?’ and ‘is the cost too high?’ … glimpses all leaders have and face at one time or another <or they are simply delusional egotistical assholes>.

As a leader I would imagine choosing a violent path is … well … easier. I imagine in some form or fashion you have accepted blood as the path to the vision … blood of your own and the ‘repressor.’

Not easy … but easier because you have accepted the path.

As a leader I would imagine choosing a nonviolent path is very very difficult.

Mostly because the repressor, or the one you are revolting against, has not signed a pact as a nonviolent participant. In fact … the only pact they have signed is that they are in the right and they will do whatever it takes to maintain what they believe is right.

I struggle to think of the pain & anguish of a nonviolent leader.

I struggle to think of the power of conviction to stay the course … combined with the sheer charisma necessary to influence people to stay the course.

I struggle even more so after watching Selma because thru cinematic power they showcase how difficult it is to be a leader of a non violent directed revolution for change.

Revolution is not an easy path. And while in its one simple word … ‘revolution’ implies “a moment” … ‘revolution’ is actually made up thousands of individual moments often spanning years.

Revolution is proof that all moments matter but some moments matter more than others.

To me … Nonviolent Revolution is a showcase for the best of best leadership study. The heck with corporate CEO’s and their ‘lean forwards’ and ‘habits of successful people’ … look to leaders of nonviolent revolutionary acts. They will show you what real leadership is about – imperfections and all.

Regardless.

So often we aspiring leaders are looking for tips and ‘how-to’s’ and some formula to insure our success <to the level of the most successful>.

Well.

Now I can offer you one – Blueprint for Revolution.

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To Download PDF:

http://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/nonviolent_eng.pdf

or google

“Nonviolent Struggle: 50 crucial points”

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In the late ’90s, Popovic was a founder of the Serbian activist group Otpor!, armed with only a hammy sense of humor and the goal of toppling dictator Slobodan Milosevic, whose ceaseless campaigns of war, terror, and repression through that decade had brought his country to economic and cultural ruin.

Rather than attempt to assemble armies and fight Milosevic head on, Popovic used tactics that were resolutely nonviolent. In just two years, and under the ubiquitous emblem of a clenched fist, Otpor! grew from a ragtag protest group into a full-blown nationwide movement that used humor, irony, imagery, and imagination to unite scattered factions of the populace against the regime, effectively overthrowing Milosevic in 2000.

For Popovic, salt, tea, and cottage cheese serve as far more effective tools of revolution than blades, bullets, or bombs. In “Blueprint for Revolution,’’ he offers a short history of nonviolent protest through examples of using laughter and music (e.g., Pussy Riot) to disarm the opposition and gather supporters, to staging a protest of Lego Men in Siberia (when flesh-and-blood people would have been shot), to a boycott of cottage cheese in Israel to challenge price inflation while organising around rice pudding to overthrow the dictator of the Maldives.

Popovic uses true and sometimes outrageously clever examples of the ways in which non-violent resistance has achieved its means. Popovic argues in favour of non-violent resistance not for ideological reasons (as persuasive as those are) but because non-violence actually works better than violence.

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Well.
I am not a revolutionary.

It’s not in my DNA.

But I attempt to be a business leader and I love leading.

Blueprint for Revolution is actually a good leadership book. Thought provoking on how to manage significant change.

For aren’t any of us aspiring leaders who embrace change really revolutionaries?

Yes.

This also means that we need to be prepared for the bloodbath that inevitably travels with change.

Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

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Haruki Murakami

Change is hard.

But change is inevitable. And revolutions are often necessary because status quo creates mass inertia.

Revolution creates the stimulus for the movement needed for change.

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“Every time you accept the claim that you can’t change human nature or you have to accept the way the world is, you are accepting the foundations of the worldview that grounded the ancient regime.”

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Susan Neiman

‘Change management leaders’ <revolutionaries> come in all sizes and shapes.

Regardless of their shape & size great leaders leaders play crucial roles in redefining a people’s identity and aspirations. and make indelible contributions to the creation of the reoriented important aspects of what will be.

I wrote this because I often find we in business can learn a lot by looking at non-business attitude & behavior management. We tend to think of business as business and what can the rest of Life & the world practically teach us.

Think about that from a business perspective and if you manage change like it is a revolution … maybe you can inspire the change you want with boycotts, music & laughter.

Just a thought.

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smallest actions contribute, so you can be better, social media, Society has a nasty tendency, Society makes it sometimes very difficult, soft choices, some choices you cannot go back, some experience worthy of note, some intangible indulgence, some people do not talk about themselves, some people drown over a full lifetime, some version of pluralism, something more important than fear, something to think about, something was always awry, sometimes systems work that should not work, sorting out the truth, sounds anything but nonviolent, soyoufailed.com, speak after listening, speaking, specialist, speculative behavior, spiral of loneliness and despair, stand for something within yourself, standing on the uncertainty pedestal, standing up every time we fall down, starting anew, starting fresh, state of perpetual dissatisfaction, statistical decision theory, statistics, statistics cannot make the decision for you, statistics getting in the way of a good decision, stay grounded in an unstable world, stay or go, stay the course, stay the course with solid ideals, still implies that change is like, stimulus reponse, stop and think, Stop looking for happiness, Stop looking for happiness in the, stories, stories we will never tell, stories you want to hear, story they never want to tell, straight lines, straight lines are rare in life, strategy, strength against adversity, strength of character, strength of character to make change, strength of character to not be hasty, strengthen your critical thinking skills, stressful decisions, stretch the bars of the cages, strip away the undoable and identify the doable, struggle between energy and indolence, struggle between vitality and decay, struggle takes many forms, Stuff I Like, Stuff I Like about marketing truths, stumble upon doing it right, stunning grace in the face of overwhelming life, subconscious influences behavior, substance versus style, success is not a good teacher, success of ROI, suck at abandoning shit, supporting and delegating, survive in the future, swallowing nonsense, sweeping social change rarely happens without a struggle, symbolic dynamics, systems remain stagnant, take revenge on doubters, taking account of reality, talking, tangled ball of string, tangled up people, teach our next generation of great leaders, teaching, teens, telling the truth, telling the truth in marketing is hard, telling the truth is not impossible, that i will be tomorrow, That is courage and not confidence, that is life, that’s not our problem, the absence of truth, the answers are within you, the best advice is priceless, the best interest of the people, the butterfly effect, the deserve equation, the die is cast, the discussion is a solution, the forerunner of death to the public liberty, the global generation, the grocery shopper, the most powerful weapon in life is not a mission, the myth of original, the myth of the proprietary process, the numbers told me what to do, the odd moment of beauty where time is not the same, The Pleasure Principle, the responsibility in marketing, the subconscious, the things we will sacrifice, The TopModels guys, the triumph of high achievement, the word failure is tough love, The word question, The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier, the world always belongs to the next generation, the world bends everyone, the world is always changing, Their enemy is monotony, there are a lot of insights, there is no formula for good choices, thinkers, thinking, thinking about how to change shit, thinking harder, thinking impossible things, thinking is good, thinking is messy, thinking too much, This building's totally burning down, this i am today, This isn’t working, thomas jefferson, thorn in the side of evil, thoughtful planning, thoughts, thoughts initiate action, thoughts initiate action and progress, thrive on dreams and possibilities, time, time and choices, to be sure of you, to slay a dragon you need to believe in dragons, to-do list that is so long sleeping is nowhere on it, too flippant with regard to speculative behavior in ourselves, torture numbers, torturing numbers, total pleasure and pain it will generate, Transformational leaders and Transactional leaders, transformational people, trapped by fear, tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, trivial moments, trivial moments in bigger life, true friend, true struggle occurs once, trust, truth, truth and expectations, truth goggles, truth has never been more difficult to discern, truth in marketing, truth is rarely simple, truth is what really happened, truth or lies, truth or nothing, truth should be simple, truth to oneself, trying to preserve will lead to stagnation, tugged by ambition, Turkey or no turkey, turn over a new leaf, tween strength, twitter triumph of humanity, unanticipated answers, unanticipated answers to reveal themselves, uncertainty, uncertainty in the universe, uncertainty is a bitch, uncertainty takes on geometric proportions, uncertainty with change, unclear leader, understanding choices, understanding of the Life value proposition, understanding what you do as an organization, unenlightened business, unethical advertising, unfocused leaders, unimportant truths, unintended results, unique person in an ad agency, unlearn, unlocking the story, unquestionable, unrealistic expectations, unshakeable, untangling people, until we meet again, use your imagination, useful questions, using truth to deceive, usually between what you want, very difficult situation, vibrantly alive in repose, vision, voices of a generation, wacky wisdom, waiting or living, walk in our footsteps, walking beyond our own footsteps, wandering with a direction in mind, want children to do better, want children to go beyond, wasted energy worrying, ways in which non-violent resistance, ways in which non-violent resistance has achieved its means, we all fail, we all have regrets, we all have stories, We deserve more, we make choices, we may never win anything, We need to change it, we overlook the ability of great friends, we should all listen a little more, weighted by its duration, well informed, well-liked or deeply-despised people, what can the rest of Life & the world practically teach us, what do you do when you get what you want, what I deserve and I want a good happy Life, what I know opinions, what is right and what is wrong, what is the alternative, what is the place of words, what looks like chaos, what we are seeking explanations, what we have is not what we need, what we need is impossible to get, what we need to get us through, what we want is not what we need, what you do with your time, whatever it takes, whatever it takes to cross that dark bridge, when life is a disaster, when people do not listen, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, why most transformation fails, wide spectrum of pain, wild hearts always seek to escape, will generate, with a little curiosity, with something positive, wives, woefully inadequate data, words, words reflecting experiences, words that become deeds, words worse than nothing unless they do something, work & what I deserve, work hard and good things will happen myth, work is often up to people, work nevertheless, work of a lifetime, world loves a cage, world waiting inside my cage, worry about implementing a great idea versus protecting it, worrying about fairness or general Life happiness, yhprum’s law, you and i issues, you are accepting, you are lying, you are not a failure because you fail, you cannot dwell on every moment that slipped by, you fail, you fail 0 2010/09/14 Published No title No description No keywords Select owning a contradiction owning a contradiction Bruce Business Thoughts, you have to work to get these stories, you have worked, you may gain something, your desired change

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