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LifeCycle Art Project presents the next stage: Premature Aging Stage
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 10 September 2013 at 03:36 PM No comments •
Hello friends, today i would like to present you the painting represents Primature Aging.
From strong connection and interaction in normal Adolescence stage deviations starts to make break when Adolescence goes to Divorce and in the last point of the process it will be Premature Aging.

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Such process seems easier sometimes. I daresay it is natural for those who afraids of ascention and grow potential, who prefers to let things goes downhill when gravitation does all work. Stagnancy is the natural result of such processes so it`s important to check it before changes becomes irreversible.
When people doesn`t understand their stagnation it`s not bad. That way the nature make such process easier and turns it to real Aging. But in Premature Age it is possible to realize what exactly was lost, what it could be in better way and to feel deep sadness about such deprevation. That`s why the details in the face of the Child-become-Granny is so important.



This is an impulse to act and also impossibility to act in hand`s gestures. The system starts to fall apart just by such small movement. That`s why the Child-becomes-Granny stucks between atempt to move free and needs to supporting the equipment.




Details is important so the technigue of painting and the style is different from the previous.




May be in Premature Age organization tryes to stop changes . But outside it still exists, much more faster then the Organization could handle. That`s why it is strong movement of strokes and colours on the painting. Nothing could be stoped both inside and outside so wind of changes pushes on Child-becomes-Granny to another stage of the LifeCycle.




There are three figures in that painting. The first is the central one represents Prematire Aging Organization.  But it is not enough to meditation on that story, to realize how the process goes on in details.




Two small figures on the left side of the painting are also important. On the bottom you can see bowbacked Founder as the result of Divorce process. This is the power which was lost.
On the left up corner you can see a yang woman runs as quickly as wind with happiness of free movement. This is an ideal image of something the Organization could gain if it growth normally through normal Adolescence period. We feel losses better when we have an example of success. Unfortunately in Premature Aging such example comes too late to be a helpful dream. Now it is just an image causes regret and envy which are not helpful too.
 
Feeling of regret is familiar to every person so the painting has an additional mission to remind it clearly in meditation before it comes as the result in real life.
That`s why we need to visualize details of the possible bad result in order to use it as information to make decisions and to act consciously for the best future.




Thank you for being with me,
 
Sincerely,
 

Anna


Contemporary General Management Education: A Critique by Dr.Ichak Adizes
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 07 September 2013 at 07:34 AM No comments •

Dr.Ichak Adizes, one of the world’s leading experts on improving the performance of business and government through fundamental change en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adizes , has published his critique to modern system of business education.
Look at the picture: I illustrated the behevioral result of mixture management education with real human behaviour.

     

"Contemporary General Management Education: A Critique

The following paper is based on forty years of consulting to corporations world wide, plus experience as a faculty member teaching at business schools at UCLA, Stanford, Columbia, Tel Aviv and Hebrew U, as well as giving visiting lectures in universities where I have been awarded fifteen honorary doctorates.

Summary:

Based on my experience, it appears to me that management education is failing to train those women and men who are relied upon to integrate all functions of management i.e. general managers.

Management education today is focused almost exclusively on functional disciplines. The integration is left to the business school graduates who have to learn the ropes by themselves, on the firing line. Not easy. Not right either.

Furthermore, our focus in training and developing future leaders is on INDIVIDUALS  and my experience is that such an individual who can perform  all the relevant tasks  does not and can not exist.

Our training is culturally biased  in favor of individualism and competitiveness, rather than collaboration, which is what is needed.

We  are not just failing in the United States and Europe.  We are now spreading this failure worldwide by opening business schools wherever there appears to be a market, causing collateral socio-political damage.

1.0 The Role of Management

Before describing and analyzing where we are failing, let me first define what management  (or leadership) is about, as I see it. ..."

Dr.Adizes described one by one what exectly is wrong in The Role of Management, Decision Making, The Ideal Executive, Management as a complementary team, How we Handle Conflict, Biased Reward System and others important points of modern business strategy comes from the education. Read the complete article here www.ichakadizes.com/contemporary-general-management-education-a-critique

So modern management focuses on things not so good in long run, focuses on an Ideal figure which doesn`t exists from one hand, and allowes unconsciousness human behaviour leads in too much competitive style from the other hand. That`s why many organization has unharnessed conflicts being unable to extract an essential part of a conflict. The extremal result of such management style illustrates by my triptych "Organization without Trust and Respect" (you can see it full size in my Gallery 2013 annamain.org/site/art_galery_2013/  ).

 

Corporate LifeCycle by Dr.I.Adizes: Adolescence goes to Divorce
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 04 September 2013 at 12:50 AM No comments •
Hello everybody, today i would like to present you the painting represents how the Adolescence point of the LifeCycle turns to Divorce and then causes Primature Aging. 
From strong connection and interaction in normal Adolescence stage:

  to Divorce 

...To complete break when Adolescence goes to Divorce.

The point was how a child could divorce with a parent and the answer is: first it needs to separate emotionally and then accumulate all legitimate power to support and make Divorce by force.  What is a force here, what is it`s qualities and possibilities? First of all the Rebeller Child needs a support behind, an own group of people interesting in the process and want advantages of the successful result. Such group usually keeps themselves out of active intervention but also they have possibility to force the situation.


In that process a Child feels a kind of satisfaction because of strength and power new and desired, and because the process seems as a new possibility to growth in natiral way being independent.


From the line of the painting that one seems more separated from the Founder and also it shows a new group appeared behind.


A tank is just the symbol of power and active force but we all know such symbols tends to be an active proof in a fighting.


I guess such process in organizations designs to show a kind of peaceful purposes so the Child has the peace pendant on the neck and show it to Founder. Just make force to make peace.


You can see here flame and smoke between the Child and the Founder. It makes accent to the separation process before the situation described by painting. The flame and smoke seems as a sign of outshoot from far distance, so the tank on the picture becames less peaceful.  It is peaceful just on the moment the situation becames under control of the Bureaucracy group behind the Child. It means outshoots took place before, and as the fire is still bright it was in nearest past.
Outshoot`s happened. The time to sign the abdication and say last words. 
 


That painting has much more small details than previous. IN previous painting an observer could meditate on the situation in total. But that one allows an observer to point mind to important things and identify it in own situation.
 
Details plays two roles. One to keep an observer more time (because the size of the painting is 60X80 cm, big anough to browse across it). And the second role is to catch the mind and turn it inside, to own experience.
 
Many details can`t be visible on the photo, it changes in different angles of observation. But several details like white hairs of the Founder and textures on the tank is visible here:


It was my attempt to describe the Adolescence stage at the Divorce point. Next week you will  see Primature Aging of an Organization as the result of that brunch.
 
Thank you for being with me,
 
Sincerely,
 

Anna Chudnovsky http://annamain.org 




There are no mistakes actually
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 02 September 2013 at 12:25 AM No comments •

We all know that mistakes is not so good things when the time to pay comes. However looking backward we usually make a new mistake, a special one: to judge previous choices by knowledge we get from it.

Such mistake is the one which grabbes our energy, devaluates our seaching experience. Sometimes it is used by society to harness us by artificial perfectionism in order to stop our attempts and control us. This is the subject important to understand because life is changes, changes requires to make attempts and each attempt has own risk.

Should we stop in yesterday-safe or make steps forward?

Should we listen to judges or be the worst judge to ourselves?

This is the dilemma everyone get during life movements. Of course stupid mistakes like being addictive from tabacco or another chemicals still exists. But nobody needs to judge it because it rather simple, common and so non prospective to exploration.

Typically the worst judgement concerns unusual things we just try to handle or to experience. That`s why we need a good philosophy covers our back and made us strong enough to turn any decision, any situation and life experience to good, progressive result.

I made such useful philosophy to myself as a combination of my analytical possibilities, curiosity and my best credo. It is important to have such philosophy tha same way as companies payes huge amounts to developers to invent corporate mission etc. That`s why every active person once stands on the front of that task: to form own strategy to understand what mistakes is and how to live more effective and efficient in short and long run.

New article by Dr.Ichak Adizes " There Are No Mistakes" here www.ichakadizes.com/there-are-no-mistakes/  . I love the way he think about and agree with that article.
In addition an interesting concept to enrich understanding how things could be arranged: In Hinduism it`s a concept that God wants people to play some roles in His lila (screenplay of life). Sometimes the best consciousness people only suits for a special role, such as the role of God`s parents. That people usually totally cinsciousness and so don`t want to be involved in such play (usually parents of God have many  troubles and risks). Then God expand his illusion energy and made people forget their consciousness. So they forget troubles and make the decision to play required roles by own will. Sometimes we do the same and the next step after it is to realize what exectly we gain from our game, may be what God wants us to play. This is the good result, every time good.

Also you could found interesting my article about connection between mistakes and life experience "The Fool (Tarot)" with my Ink illustrations here annamain.org/site/comments/inkscetch_the_fool_tarot/

Thank you for being with me!

Anna

Corporation LIfeCycle by Dr.Ichak Adizes: Adolescence Stage
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 28 August 2013 at 12:59 PM No comments •
Hello friends,   today i would like to present you the painting represents the Adolescence point of the LifeCycle by Dr.I.Adizes.
 
That painting has a story. 


When I made my sketches to the subject and showed the result to Dr.Adizes he noticed Adolescence is Love-Hate relationship. So it should include with hight energy circulating between a Founder and a Child (which represents an Organization).
 
But in my first picture it was less relationship and tension so I suddenly realized that it was not the Adolescence itself. It was the Adolescence turns to Divorce and then to Primature Aging (you will see that paintings in next mails). 
 
So the real Adolescence should be with strong interaction between sides involved, with attempts to help and collaboration but without integration between them.  Also it should contains something from Go-Go.
Then I made a few steps back,  observed several reviews about adolescence and then catched the point.
Interaction with strong feelings and energy is the base, also mixed feelings represents by the painting.


It should be acts and stop, all in unharmony manner, too late so more stronger, even rude, but with a strong reason to involve.


Tension and losses should be the part of the process because something used to be in harmony,  integrated, worked in resonance now turnes into cacophony.


The Father on the painting looks cruel (I saw such expression on  pictures made by people during psychotherapy ). 
But if you pay attention to the bottom you will see the sharp fragments of something seemes dangerous just near the feet of the Child. Also flames of fire looks dengerous and it seems the Child`s feet has been very close to it when the Founder involved. May be it was unexpectable and unpleasant to both of them.


Reminiscently to Go-Go stage with gold curcles above every member of the "family" connected them with each others by mission and common happiness. In that stage all members looks in common direction even when they made problems with the way choosen. (You can read more about Go-Go here http://annamain.org/site/comments/corporation_lifecycle_by_dr.ichak_adizes_go-go_stage/   )


...Here we still have gold curcles here, connecting the Founder and the Child with their hands. Glances direct in a sharp angle but not opposite, also attempts to make Integration still here.  Everything is trembling full of new growth possibilities and tension about it,  new personality just starts to show itself and to try how it could be, and the test of danger is here also.


It was my attempt to describe the Adolescence stage by painting and also to put it in correct order with visual and logical connection with the previous and future stages. Next mail it will be the Deviation of Adolescence which causes the Divorce and Primature Aging of an Organization.
 
Thank you for being with me,
 
Sincerely,
 
Anna , just from Greece, ready to new tasks to do





Corporation LIfeCycle by Dr.Ichak Adizes: Go-Go Stage
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 21 August 2013 at 07:58 AM No comments •

Hello friends,

Today I would like to introduce you the forth painting from the LifeCycle line.

From Infancy to Go-Go

"Go-Go" is the stage I stucked for tens years doing everything, realizing completely every single wish comes to me. It was a kind of sweet slavery. I felt good because all attempts was successful but the same time afraid of new possibilities coming so felt a kind of compulsion to make it done.  It seems as view of possibilities comes from somewhere, concentrated by my skills as sunlight concentates by lens and then I was obligated to turn a view into reality.
 
It tuned me to an idea that wishes to start something new comes not only from a founder but from a company as well. How? Somehow. The one who generate the main evergy could influent the system and vice versa.

The style of that painting is simplified by design to make a pair to previous one. In the forth painting I made several indicators of modern fast developing culture of youth such as specific expression of a child`s face (comes from Japanese modern culture of smiles represent exitments and energy prepared to be expressed). Parent`s figures painted in less modern style to indicate a distance in roles, life experience and living style between developing Go-Go system and a founder.
 
This is a thin layer of gold covering several parts of the painting especially eyes of the figures. Arrows represents gowth and at the left down corner this is the
fall.

So the painting is the code to investigate and understand details of the Go-Go stage.

Thank you for your attention and try to found Go-Go stage in yourself!

The Third point of the Adizes`s Corporation Lifecycle: the Infancy
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 07 August 2013 at 01:58 AM No comments •

Hello everybody, here we have a special kind of connection, I mean Greek Internet. So mostly I have no access. So today I would like to introduce you the third painting from the LifeCycle line, from Adizes Project, represent the Infancy point.

That stage of the Lifecycle means everything goes with problems of synchronization. IN a company when one department growth quickly, such as sales, anothers can be unable to gain an appropiate service for it because it growth in different speed.  So the situation is the same as a new baby born and first several months parents are in hurry. It was described by Dr.Adizes in his book so clear so I imagined the scream and mass clearly, based on babies and companies I know.
 
Then I was curious about a mental experiment: could a business be free of such problems at all if we have minimum persons involved?

For example typically I work alone so it is one peson involved and so no mass. As soon as I have my project totally understood I can do it completely. It seems the third point of Lifecycle doesn`t exist. This is the part of creation but not a business. 
 For business I need another one, may be an agent, in the case of success it can be shortage of time, may be matherials, misundestanding etc.  And then it could be screams, mass and others normal troubles of the Infancy point.
 
So the Infancy stage exists even for super small company: 2 persons + 1 client.

Then I turned to an idea that number of roles also important.  I tryed to decrease number of people to minimum (just one peson represents by me) but increase number of roles and put it in wrong sequence. Such things causes if I don`t understand clearly what a project could be, especially in technical terms, so roles of management start to take place in my mind and even struggle for more priority. For example A role could make something seems a good planing but E role avoid everything A created, having nothing instead. Then I lost Integration and, being unsure what to do, can do something uncorrectly or do nothing (because in such situation everything drops from my hands so it`s impossible to perform P-role).
Such process causes the same  troubles and normal problems as it was described about Infancy.

Then I tryed to think about post-industrial business where all roles are clear, only good professionals involved so everyone perform an appropriate role in right sequense. What it could be if such business have no matherial product, for example produces soft or another intellectual product? It seems the Infancy doesn`t exist in such schema.
It looks ideal.
But then I realized it could be competitors creates problems from outside, such as DDOS attacks and another troubles for which e-business is still vulneable. I`ve just recalled examples how servers crushed and what it caused to ideal post-industial businesses.

So the mental experiment shows the Infancy stage exists in any cases so it will be good to acept it and be ready to overcome.

Thank you fo being with me, thanks to Greek intenet which starts to work now, hello from the sea!

How to build a Project in Total using every minute of unique presence
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 14 July 2013 at 05:51 PM No comments •

How to use every minute? The best example was the Conference of Dr.Adizes I was invited in 30 of May 2013. My aim was to catch an essential information not only about methodology itself (as we have books for it) but about something personal, essential part of individual presence, diamonds of personal experience of the lecturers wich available only here by own eyes.

(On the picture you can see Dr.Ichak Adizes, Senior Principal Associate adizes.com/  made his explanation about motivation process how it described in his methodology.) Every moment was precious.

 I used both hands to make my conspectus, trying to write every detail. As usual 2 hands wasn`t enough so I did less photos but more writing matherials. Being ambidextrous I can use both hands simultaneously, but writing still more fast by my right hand. The secret is how to make creative style writing (using right brain) by right hand (using left, analysis brain). I prepared everything in advance, my notebook A4 size, colourful stickers and several pens different colours and ink-brushes too (just because I love it so much). While a lecturer made presentation I caught points of attention and composed it in the notebook. You can see how it looks like on the picture.

I used my left hand simultaneusly to make notes on my iPad mini (really good tool for it!) using SimpleMind soft to construct the mindmap described the structure of the lecture by words. Here you can see the result. This is my MIndMap I constructed to 1st and 2nd lecturers of the Adizes Institute`s conference.

This is another example from my writing at the same conference. The reason to do my job that way and not to use recorders is the necessity to catch the unique moments exists just the moment Dr.Adizes and others lecturers explained it. Everything could be the point for more deep understanding: gestures, voice, a sequence of explanation… also my own mind worked to visualize the methodology so I needed to put everything into own structure. (After 5 hours of such work I had a little headache, but everything has own price, it`s ok).

So the process seems familiar with 3D technology uses 2 kind of images and different glasses to make a picture 3D.

 

...and more…

Mr.Shimon Rojany, Principal Associate of Adizes Institute made a poetic speech about accounting. I`d never heard before so exciting explanation about financial part of a business. As you see, colours works as a good mark for analysis.

 I was a little bit tired at the end of the conference so I used small and funny pictures to refresh mind and to make it work.

As you see, it`s not boring! smile

Thank you for being with me!

Sincerely,

Anna

Today Result
Author: ANNAmain • Date: 09 July 2013 at 12:53 PM No comments •

OK, this is the result of LifeCycle visuzlization. Paintings on the top (Prime and Stable Organization) it the most important, because this is the equilibrium we all want to gain and state in so I investigated all points before and after in order to learn a specific energy of each particular point.

Visualizing the LIfeCycle I gained an interesting insights about what is my own perception in each stage, what is so natural for me so I painted it easy, what`s hard to understand because of what reasons… Each project gives me such opportunities because Arts could turn associations from deep levels of subconscousness. So every Art project becames a joyrney, an exploration for me. That`s why I love it so much!

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