The United States was clearly losing the space race, so Harrison tells his engineers to call their wives and children because they all would be working nonstop until they finish the U.
Then, sharing the pain, Harrison continues, " I'll start with mine. Set the conditions for your team to be able to respond with a sense of urgency. As a young soldier, prior to one winter-warfare training mission, my battalion commander looked me over and noticed too many layers of clothing.
Things are going to start moving quickly. With all that clothing under your gear you will overheat. I went from grumbling to grateful for the directive. As a leader, you have to assess if your team is too cozy to respond effectively to urgent situations. There are simple ways to practice keeping things comfortably cold. For example, examine the kinds of meetings taking place.
Are meeting roles assigned? Agendas produced before the meeting? Many meetings waste time. In fact, a not-so-insignificant number should be standing meetings literally without chairs. Sometimes this is due to the fact that these folks have only lived in an operational mode, and stepping into a delivery mode is an alien concept that they need to adopt.
But other times even some "delivery professionals" demonstrate complacency and a lack of any real sense of urgency.
Fifty-one percent merely put their time in, while the remaining 16 percent act out their discontent in counterproductive ways, negatively influencing others.
The task of leading a team of people in a transformation at any level will often require an ability to create an atmosphere of urgency that can be embraced, and in turn bring about an atmosphere of achievement. Engaged Employees - who work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company.
They drive innovation and move the organisation forward. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence , they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds. But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.
We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment.
This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual.
And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. National Mall. In each of these, he surely signaled a sense of impatience in the face of looming catastrophe.
In his urging society at that time to fiercely concentrate and focus on the palpable challenges to humanity, Dr. King also signaled the importance of another essential form of vigilance — attention to systems and contexts. King, was for people to understand justice as a system with its elements linked together. Without a just world for blacks there could not be one for whites.
Similarly, there could not be true self-determination for us in the United States unless all humankind, those in the developed and in the developing world, achieved it.
On both occasions Dr. King put into resolution the duality of proper attention to the fierce urgency of now — fast deliberate action must be coupled to thoughtful analysis and appreciation of systemic context. We must act with all due alacrity, yet also with the thoughtfulness and seriousness of purpose appropriate to meaningful action.
What are we, in this era, to take from the duality of the fierce urgency of now? Today, we are caught in the throes of highly variable educational interventions and reforms that work well for some yet are disastrous for others.
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