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By Mike Zonta, BB editor

Rotating Deans

One clear way to lessen our leadership-centered leadership model is to rotate the Deanship of the school on a yearly basis among the three elected members of the Executive Council. Too often we confuse the person with the role. Rotating the Deanship will lessen that expectation on the part of the student body and on the part of the Dean him- or herself.

Give Robert the Boot

This is a quote from The Prosperos publication called ““Group Leadership and the Art of Leadership”

“Efficiency of operation requires that there be agreed-upon rules of operation.  The standard method of solving this problem, that of parliamentary procedures [Robert’s Rules], is seldom satisfactory in group-centered groups.  It tends to introduce an element of stiffness that destroys the climate of warm informality.  It disrupts group unity.  In general, no decision is completely satisfactory unless it has been reached by consensus.  If for some reason it becomes necessary take a vote, it should be done with the greatest respect to the position of the minority.”

The trustees, the High Watch and the Mentor’s Association should drop Robert’s Rules immediately. Let’s trust each other enough to be able to run these meetings without Robert or his rules.

Group Observers

Most of our trustee, High Watch and Mentor’s Association meetings open with an invocation. As a reminder of our efforts to be more group-centered, we should close each meeting with an observer’s report. We have lots of practice doing this in our Find Yourself and Live listening and dialogue groups. So let’s put that training to good use.

If any of these ideas go against The Prosperos charter or by-laws, it’s within our power to change that charter or those by-laws.