Date: TUESDAY 1.24.23
AO: southpaw
PAX: Sharpie, Super Nova, Paycheck, Wee Man
Q: Paycheck
Total: 4
FNGS:0
CONDITIONS: 31 … “way colder running”
Warm-Up:
• FORWARD CLAPS, IN CADENCE
• WALK THE PLANK x 10 (standing, walkout to plank and back to standing)
• MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS x 20
• SHOULDER TAPS x 20
• CAROLINA DRYDOCKS x 20
THE THANG:
WILSON’S STRENGTH NUMBERS
• 20 Air Squats
Man is by nature a Group-forming animal
A Group is a voluntary combination of two or more people. There are three distinct types of Groups that are relevant to the QSource: communities, organizations and teams.
A Voluntary Combination Of Two Or More People
We seek strength in numbers for a variety of different reasons, but the most elemental is that life itself, while technically possible as a singleton, is not practical without combination with others. Loneliness is our subconscious yelling at us to go find a partner because we are not supposed to live like that. It’s dangerous.
• Pax take turns rolling the worlout dice AKA Wilson for Strength in Numbers. Complete together.
1)- COMMUNITY
The first Group-type is the Community, which is two or more people that voluntarily live in close Proximity . A Community is defined by the geographical Proximity of its Members that are at the center of their Proximity circle
• Pax choose a concentric circle (cones have been laid out) There are multiple. Red, orange, yellow
• Pax lead with cards dealt from deck of cards
Leaders have the most impact upon the Communities that are at the center of their Proximity circle. Thus, a father is much more important to his family than is the governor of the state or the president of the nation.
Middle Circle: Deck of cards (chaos; must lead to Advantage- Pax Choice)
• Every Pax chose a card and completed together
2)- ORGANIZATIONS (the Lizard, the Bullfrog, the Leach)
The second Group-type is the Organization. An Organization is two or more people that voluntarily combine for the accomplishment of an articulated purpose. Unlike Communities, the Members of an Organization are defined by their shared mission not their Proximity.
• Pax Bear Crawl 50 paces away from one another to complete 20 Bonnie Blairs.
• Crawl bear back.
• 20 Jump Squats
• Shoulder to shoulder Mosey to benches/ lilypads
• 20 Air Squats
There is some obvious overlap between a Community and an Organization.
A leader must keep clear the distinction between the two types of Groups because they are completely different organisms. Communities do not need organizing (they exist only to be, not to do) and Organizations do not need community (they exist only to do, not to be ).
Thus, it is illogical to call a man a “Community Organizer”. No such thing can exist and would be unnecessary if it did. What does exist (and what is sorely necessary in both Communities and Organizations) are virtuous leaders.
Organizations are defined by the Effectiveness with which they accomplish their Mission. Viewed through the lens of Effectiveness, there are three types of Organizations: Lizards, Bullfrogs and Leeches.
The second Group-type is the Organization. An Organization is two or more people that voluntarily combine for the accomplishment of an articulated purpose. Unlike Communities, the Members of an Organization are defined by their shared mission not their Proximity.
A Lizard is an Organization that is dedicated to the Effective achievement of its Mission.
the Lizard is forward-looking. It seeks change through Movement. Its leaders are Disruptive. A Lizard is is by definition a movement rather than an institution
Because leaders are critical to a movement, Lizards must have a vibrant leadership development process. Within the universe of Organizations there are very few Lizards.
• MOSEY TO BENCHES
The majority of Organizations are Bullfrogs. Unlike a Lizard, a Bullfrog is an institution with the primary goal of the continuity of its own existence. Maintaining what was previously accomplished requires managers, not leaders.
Bullfrogs, immobile institutions that they are, do not need Disruptive leadership because they are not going anywhere. The only challenge tomorrow may bring to a Bullfrog is the maintenance of the slow-motion dance required for it to stay firmly planted on yesterday’s lily-pad.
• 20 Air Squats
• 10 Merkins
Because it is governed by managers rather than leaders, creates nothing and expends its resources on existential continuity, the Bullfrog is continually in danger of morphing into the third type of Organization, the Leech. A Leech looks less like an Organization than an enervated mob that only survives by feeding off of Bullfrogs too overcome by their own lethargy to shake them off. Within the dispirited ranks of a Leech it is every man for himself because individual continuity ultimately trumps Organizational continuity. A Leech has neither managers nor leaders, only survivors. It is a failed and purposeless institution that is crumbling from within.
• DECLINE HI PLANK TO FAILURE (Every Leech for themselves)
• 20 Merkins IC
Ultimately, and unfortunately, Organizational movement is almost wholly rightward–towards Leechdom. Thus, an Organization that was a Lizard yesterday becomes a Bullfrog today and may tomorrow be a Leech, unless someone intercedes to Disruptively influence Movement to Advantage.
• 20 Air Squats
3)- TEAMS
The final Group-type is the Team, which is two or more people who combine to perform a specific mission for the benefit of a Community, an Organization or both. Teams may be formed at the direction of the Governance of a Community or Organization, but they more often arise organically under the leadership of a Member who identifies a Problem and sets out to solve it.
The primary difference between a Team and an Organization is that Team Members are in close Proximity while Organization Members may never even meet. The primary difference between a Team and a Community is purposefulness–a Team exists to do something while the Community exists to be something.
• mosey back
• 20 Merkins IC
Because the Proximity between Team Members is not for the purpose of peace and harmony but to to achieve Advantage, Team Membership is defined by active contribution made to the Team’s Effectiveness not passive conformance to its rules and mores. Unlike the Member of a Community, the Member of a Team must do something rather than just be something to enjoy good standing.
While Communities and Organizations can thrive regardless of their size, a Team must be big enough to accomplish the Mission yet small enough that its teamwork is vibrant and uninhibited. It is within Teams that people have the most opportunity to lead. Thus, Teams are necessary to the leadership development process of any Group.
Dynamic Teams are the heart of healthy Communities and Effective Organizations
At its most Effective, a Lizard is little more than a network of Teams that work efficiently together to solve the Organization’s Problems and advance its articulated purpose. Similarly, a healthy Community is embedded with Teams that form to serve and enhance the peace and harmony of its Members. Ultimately, dynamic Teams are the product of strong Community and Organizational leadership, which encourages their formation and rewards their efforts through well-aligned incentives.
Whether a leader is concerned with the health of his Community, the Effectiveness of his Organization or the dynamism of his Teams (or all three), the QSource provides a framework for him to more skillfully influence of Movement to Advantage–which is the heart of leadership.
MARY, around the horn
• Paycheck: V Ups 20
• Supernova: Flutter Kicks 20
• Sharpie: Reverse Plank
• Wee Man: Big Boy Situps – 5 reg, 5 Butterfly
VICTORY LAP: Mosey to fence but jailbreak at end of long painted section; 10 count. Jailbreak after short paint a la You V You.
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