Transactional & Transformational Leadership LO14911

Winfried Dressler (winfried.dressler@voith.de)
Mon, 8 Sep 1997 13:29:39 +0100

Replying to LO14857 --

Doc Holloway wrote:

>I just want to be a self-transforming person. Sometimes, people may
>follow (at their own discretion and hazard). Whether they do or not is
>not essential to the sense I have of myself--and my need to transform my
>own life. Sometimes I follow. At my own discretion and hazard. Mostly,
>I am myself and my circumstances.

I like your comment, thank you! Surely many people who want to transform
others in fact just try to correct their own faults.

May I ask two additional questions:

1.) "Mostly, I am myself and my circumstances." - Has this been a goal for
you that is reached now mostly due to your transformational process? Or
is "being yourself" a selffullfilling assumption and the basis of your
transformations?

2.) How do you see yourself as a part of the various systems you are a
part of? Your statement is one of great personal freedom. And true
freedom is linked closely to true committment which makes freedom to such
a paradox. In your words, everyone is free to follow. But what about
separating again? As an example many children have to grow up without the
committment of their parents to the family. Another example: Many teenager
feel free to try drugs...

Best regards,
Winfried

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Winfried.Dressler@voith.de

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