Friday, May 13, 2005
The Definition of Consulting-Revolution Consulting
Management consulting (sometimes also called strategy consulting) refers to both the practice of helping companies to improve performance through analysis of existing business problems and development of future plans, as well as to the firms that specialize in this sort of consulting. Management consulting may involve the identification and cross-fertilization of best practices, analytical techniques, change management and coaching skills, technology implementations, strategy development.
U roam around, lots of consulting organizations with different nomenclatures; it seems consulting wave has swept everybody!!
One latest I found is "Revolution Consulting"-
Concept 1-
So-called negative emotions, those natural human feelings of anger, despair, envy, hate, resentment, etc. that we all have from time to time, have an important place in building intimacy. They need to be expressed and released when they show up in order to be detoxed. Having 'negative emotions' doesn't make us bad people. Thinking that they do is what keeps so many people from expressing and releasing these emotions, thereby keeping themselves stopped up and sick. After all, 'we're only as sick as our ugliest secrets,' which include our repressed bad feelings. It is when our feelings - all of our feelings, including the ones we're afraid of, embarrased about, or uncomfortable with - are openly revealed and then forgiven that we have a chance to heal, become whole, and truly connect with others."
So much of healing work is the emptying out of old repressed feelings - stuff that I might have bottled up to the boiling point for many years, and now the volcano is about to blow. And then, as the rumblings begin, other people will often urge me to "stop dwelling on the past" and "just suck it up and move on." Well, I'm not built to "ignore" my feelings, nor am I built to "stuff them," and yet it's true that it's never effective to "dwell on the past." But the best way to put myself in a position to never have to dwell on the past is to "own and express each present feeling, as I feel it," even the ones that I or those around me might have labeled as inappropriate or ugly. They are all mine -meaningful and meant to be experienced, and, once they are owned and released, they are meant to be let go of completely to enable me to effectively move through them to the next experience. Without storing them up as baggage, I learn to flow through them and learn from them how to be healthy and whole, and how to encourage others to fully express themselves and connect with them in their wholeness.
Concept 2-
“Compassion costs. Sharing it sincerely is a form of suffering - the 'suffering with' another. And it's the hard work we're asked to do. However, it is much easier - in fact, it's almost effortless - to argue, criticize, and condemn, all in the name of being right, making these actions and attitudes empty lies. Redemption is costly, and giving comforting support draws from the deep. Brains can argue all day long, and then brawn can take over when they're tired, but it takes great heart and tremendous effort to care about, comfort, and lift up others.”
It's so fascinating how we can turn our use of personal, organizational, or governmental "force" - in the form of argument, criticism, and condemnation - into a "good" thing in our own minds. We often conveniently define this as "being strong," just because it is the place to which we naturally gravitate in our weakness, and in our pride we don't like to admit that. We will even go to war and kill each other to avoid facing it. There is a bigger war to fight, however, and it is an inner war - the war within ourselves to learn and understand that the wars outside ourselves are only a sign of our having given up on God, and that "now we must take control." It makes a mockery of our faith, and then we insult God even further by waging our battles in His name. How much history will it take to show us the folly of this?
William Sloane Coffin once said, "The trouble with saying, 'The only thing that the other side understands is force' is that you must behave as if the only thing you understand is force." Many of God's most powerful lessons are based on St. Augustine's insight: "Never fight evil as if it were something that arose totally outside of yourself." If we seek God's peace, if it is really peace that we say we are fighting for, it is not in being hard, mighty, and strong that we will find it, but in being willing to do the really hard thing - to suffer for it (and that means the decision-makers who are calling the shots, not the "front-line soldiers" and their families who end up doing most of the suffering). We must be willing to die to our own hardened ways in order to rise up. We must be willing to question ourselves first and most often - our anger, our contentiousness, our deepest motives, our laziness, our pride. The answers will not be found in doing things the way they've always been done. We must find new ways. And they will likely be found in the midst of paradox, by turning logic on its head.For example: "Come to think of it, 'attacking' worldwide poverty with everything we have - all of our abundance, resourcefulness, and wealth - could turn out to be our best 'defense' policy. It certainly would marginalize extremists and dramatically slow down the recruitment of new terrorists."
“The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle, and then angrily insist on winning. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came, having already humbly acknowledged their failure.”
War is a cowardly escape from the overwhelming problems of peace."
Wishful thinking....perhaps the consulting has gone beyond human head or brain!!
Still searching the answer????
I hope the smoke wont go down
U roam around, lots of consulting organizations with different nomenclatures; it seems consulting wave has swept everybody!!
One latest I found is "Revolution Consulting"-
Concept 1-
So-called negative emotions, those natural human feelings of anger, despair, envy, hate, resentment, etc. that we all have from time to time, have an important place in building intimacy. They need to be expressed and released when they show up in order to be detoxed. Having 'negative emotions' doesn't make us bad people. Thinking that they do is what keeps so many people from expressing and releasing these emotions, thereby keeping themselves stopped up and sick. After all, 'we're only as sick as our ugliest secrets,' which include our repressed bad feelings. It is when our feelings - all of our feelings, including the ones we're afraid of, embarrased about, or uncomfortable with - are openly revealed and then forgiven that we have a chance to heal, become whole, and truly connect with others."
So much of healing work is the emptying out of old repressed feelings - stuff that I might have bottled up to the boiling point for many years, and now the volcano is about to blow. And then, as the rumblings begin, other people will often urge me to "stop dwelling on the past" and "just suck it up and move on." Well, I'm not built to "ignore" my feelings, nor am I built to "stuff them," and yet it's true that it's never effective to "dwell on the past." But the best way to put myself in a position to never have to dwell on the past is to "own and express each present feeling, as I feel it," even the ones that I or those around me might have labeled as inappropriate or ugly. They are all mine -meaningful and meant to be experienced, and, once they are owned and released, they are meant to be let go of completely to enable me to effectively move through them to the next experience. Without storing them up as baggage, I learn to flow through them and learn from them how to be healthy and whole, and how to encourage others to fully express themselves and connect with them in their wholeness.
Concept 2-
“Compassion costs. Sharing it sincerely is a form of suffering - the 'suffering with' another. And it's the hard work we're asked to do. However, it is much easier - in fact, it's almost effortless - to argue, criticize, and condemn, all in the name of being right, making these actions and attitudes empty lies. Redemption is costly, and giving comforting support draws from the deep. Brains can argue all day long, and then brawn can take over when they're tired, but it takes great heart and tremendous effort to care about, comfort, and lift up others.”
It's so fascinating how we can turn our use of personal, organizational, or governmental "force" - in the form of argument, criticism, and condemnation - into a "good" thing in our own minds. We often conveniently define this as "being strong," just because it is the place to which we naturally gravitate in our weakness, and in our pride we don't like to admit that. We will even go to war and kill each other to avoid facing it. There is a bigger war to fight, however, and it is an inner war - the war within ourselves to learn and understand that the wars outside ourselves are only a sign of our having given up on God, and that "now we must take control." It makes a mockery of our faith, and then we insult God even further by waging our battles in His name. How much history will it take to show us the folly of this?
William Sloane Coffin once said, "The trouble with saying, 'The only thing that the other side understands is force' is that you must behave as if the only thing you understand is force." Many of God's most powerful lessons are based on St. Augustine's insight: "Never fight evil as if it were something that arose totally outside of yourself." If we seek God's peace, if it is really peace that we say we are fighting for, it is not in being hard, mighty, and strong that we will find it, but in being willing to do the really hard thing - to suffer for it (and that means the decision-makers who are calling the shots, not the "front-line soldiers" and their families who end up doing most of the suffering). We must be willing to die to our own hardened ways in order to rise up. We must be willing to question ourselves first and most often - our anger, our contentiousness, our deepest motives, our laziness, our pride. The answers will not be found in doing things the way they've always been done. We must find new ways. And they will likely be found in the midst of paradox, by turning logic on its head.For example: "Come to think of it, 'attacking' worldwide poverty with everything we have - all of our abundance, resourcefulness, and wealth - could turn out to be our best 'defense' policy. It certainly would marginalize extremists and dramatically slow down the recruitment of new terrorists."
“The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle, and then angrily insist on winning. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came, having already humbly acknowledged their failure.”
War is a cowardly escape from the overwhelming problems of peace."
Wishful thinking....perhaps the consulting has gone beyond human head or brain!!
Still searching the answer????
I hope the smoke wont go down
