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Howard,<br>
Appros of this, Sal Maddi argues that such resilience can be taught to
adults. He postulates three belief structures, committment, control and
challenge. I throw in a paragraph from the article below the header.<br>
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<td align="left"><font size="-1">Consulting Psychology Journal:
Practice and Research</font></td>
<td align="right"><font size="-1"> © 1999 by the Educational
Publishing Foundation and the Division of Consulting Psychology</font></td>
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<td align="left"><font size="-1">Spring 1999 Vol. 51, No.
2, 117-124</font></td>
<td align="right"><font size="-1">For personal use only--not for
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<h3>The Hardy Organization<br>
Success by Turning Change to Advantage </h3>
<strong>Salvatore R. Maddi</strong><br>
University of California, Irvine<br>
<strong>Deborah M. Khoshaba</strong><br>
The Hardiness Institute<br>
<strong>Arthur Pammenter</strong><br>
Executive Development Group<br>
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<center><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></center>
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<blockquote>Our
turbulent times require organizations that are hardy in the sense of
having cultures, climates, structures, and workforces capable of
turning potentially disruptive changes into opportunities. At the
individual, or workforce, level, hardiness involves the attitudes of
commitment, control, and challenge and the complementary skills of
coping and social support. At the organizational level, the isomorphic
counterparts of hardy attitudes are the cultural values of cooperation,
credibility, and creativity. Furthermore, an organization is hardy if
these cultural values are indeed expressed on an everyday basis through
its climate and if its structure involves the matrix management scheme
of semi-autonomous work teams rather than the more traditional
hierarchical arrangement. This article also considers the assessment
and consulting functions that can increase the hardiness of
organizations.</blockquote>
Quote: <br>
What is this dispositional hardiness that has such beneficial
effects? At the individual level, we have emphasized hardiness as a
particular system of attitudes and skills that facilitates managing
circumstances that are stressful and potentially debilitating because
they constitute disruptive changes or chronic conflicts (e.g., <a
href="http://www.psycinfo.com/psycarticles/index.cfm?action=display&uid=1999-03308-006&ftType=HTML&sid=5f99ff02-c650-4bf0-af8e-77eeb50171c1#c12"
name="cr12-1">Maddi, 1994</a>, <a
href="http://www.psycinfo.com/psycarticles/index.cfm?action=display&uid=1999-03308-006&ftType=HTML&sid=5f99ff02-c650-4bf0-af8e-77eeb50171c1#c13"
name="cr13-2">1998</a>; <a
href="http://www.psycinfo.com/psycarticles/index.cfm?action=display&uid=1999-03308-006&ftType=HTML&sid=5f99ff02-c650-4bf0-af8e-77eeb50171c1#c21"
name="cr21-1">Rhodewalt & Zone, 1989</a>; <a
href="http://www.psycinfo.com/psycarticles/index.cfm?action=display&uid=1999-03308-006&ftType=HTML&sid=5f99ff02-c650-4bf0-af8e-77eeb50171c1#c23"
name="cr23-1">Weibe, 1991</a>).
<p><a
href="javascript:showCitation('Maddi, Salvatore R.; Khoshaba, Deborah M.; Pammenter, Arthur','The Hardy Organization: Success by Turning Change to Advantage','Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research','51','117-124','Dispositional Hardiness','2')"><img
border="0" src="cid:part1.00070801.05080505@solution-consulting.com"
alt="Maddi, Salvatore R.; Khoshaba, Deborah M.; Pammenter, Arthur S-2 #2"></a>The
HardiAttitudes are the "3 Cs" of commitment, control, and challenge
(e.g., <a
href="http://www.psycinfo.com/psycarticles/index.cfm?action=display&uid=1999-03308-006&ftType=HTML&sid=5f99ff02-c650-4bf0-af8e-77eeb50171c1#c9"
name="cr9-1">Kobasa, Maddi,&Kahn, 1982</a>).
To be strong in commitment means believing that being involved with
tasks, people, and contexts is the best way to find meaningful purpose
in life. You will be infinitely curious about what is going on around
you, and this will lead you to find interactions with people and
situations stimulating and meaningful. Feeling alienated and isolated
will seem like a waste of time. To be strong in control involves
believing that, through personal struggle, you can usually influence
the directions and outcomes going on around you. Lapsing into
powerlessness and passivity will seem like a waste of time. To be
strong in challenge means believing that personal improvement and
fulfillment come through the continual process of learning from both
negative and positive experiences. It will seem not only unrealistic
but also stultifying to simply expect comfort and security to be handed
to you.<br>
End<br>
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I can send the text of the entire article if you are interested. Maddi
applies his ideas to organizations, improving the resilience of groups
of people. <br>
Lynn<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:HowlBloom@aol.com">HowlBloom@aol.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<div>In a message dated 3/6/2005 1:17:56 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
Howl Bloom writes:</div>
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<div>In a message dated 3/3/2005 8:08:49 P.M. Eastern Standard
Time, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joe@quirk.net">joe@quirk.net</a> writes:</div>
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<blockquote>"Once you win, you've got a reputation to live up to,
even if you weren't so inclined, you get surrounded by an entourage
that's also heavily invested in your reputation," said Redelmeier. "So
you end up sleeping properly every night, eating well, exercising
regularly every day."<br>
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Your points are good ones, Joe. It's like the problem of resilient
kids. Roughly one out of ten kids who grow up with single, abusive,
drug or drink-addled mothers end up as very successful adults. What do
these kids have in common? The find mentors, substitute parents to
whom they bond.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>This leaves us with a puzzle. Do these kids become more
successful because they have an attachment to a significat other, an
emotionally meaningful, nurturing other, something most tormented kids
like this lack? Or do these resilient kids have an attachment to a
mentor because the are born with better social instincts, the instincts
of self-confidence and extroversion that make them bold enough to find
others they can attach themselves to?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Which came first, the confidence or the social connection? Is
the success these kids have later in life due to their outgoing nature
or due to the mentors that outgoing nature brings? Or are the
two--confidence and social connection--inseparable?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Is there a gene-tweak or a womb-experience that makes for more
confident kids and others who are born with shyness and overwhelming
insecurities? In twin studies by an Italian researcher, regular
sonographic scans of the two kids in the womb showed that there was a
battle taking place in utero. One twin managed to take over the living
room of the womb--the central chamber, The other kid was shoved aside
and had to gestate in a corner, in a sort-of closet of the womb.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>When the two finally made it from the uterus into the outside
word, the winner of the womb war was outgoing and self-confident. When
a stranger showed up, the winner ran over clearly expecting to win the
stranger over. It saw this new social contact as an opportunity.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The loser in the womb wars saw the same stranger and hugged
its mother's legs in panic, then ran off to something eerily like its
old uterine closet--it hid in a side room. ThIs kid saw a stranger as
a danger, not as a new opening.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Did the winner of the womb wars win by chance and then gain
the benefits of his land grab for intra-uterine space? Or was there
some gene-tweak that predestined him to win?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Does womb-real estate change the nature of the kid--does it
change the way that genes express themselves? Or does some small
gene-fluke exist even in what we think of as genetically identical
kids? Howard</div>
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Howard Bloom<br>
Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the
Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The
Big Bang to the 21st Century<br>
Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University;
Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.howardbloom.net">www.howardbloom.net</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.bigbangtango.net">www.bigbangtango.net</a><br>
Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member:
Epic of Evolution Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project;
founder: The Big Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of
Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American
Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and
Evolution Society, International Society for Human Ethology; advisory
board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New Paradigm book
series.<br>
For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.paleopsych.org">www.paleopsych.org</a><br>
for two chapters from <br>
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of
History, see <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.howardbloom.net/lucifer">www.howardbloom.net/lucifer</a><br>
For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the
Big Bang to the 21st Century, see <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.howardbloom.net">www.howardbloom.net</a><br>
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ptsize="10">----------<br>
Howard Bloom<br>
Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the
Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The
Big Bang to the 21st Century<br>
Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University;
Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.howardbloom.net">www.howardbloom.net</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.bigbangtango.net">www.bigbangtango.net</a><br>
Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member:
Epic of Evolution Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project;
founder: The Big Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of
Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American
Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and
Evolution Society, International Society for Human Ethology; advisory
board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New Paradigm book
series.<br>
For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.paleopsych.org">www.paleopsych.org</a><br>
for two chapters from <br>
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of
History, see <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.howardbloom.net/lucifer">www.howardbloom.net/lucifer</a><br>
For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the
Big Bang to the 21st Century, see <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.howardbloom.net">www.howardbloom.net</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joe@quirk.net">joe@quirk.net</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:emdls@pacbell.net">emdls@pacbell.net</a></td>
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<div>In a message dated 3/3/2005 8:08:49 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joe@quirk.net">joe@quirk.net</a> writes:</div>
<blockquote
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style="background-color: transparent;" face="Arial" color="#000000"
size="2">
<blockquote>"Once you win, you've got a reputation to live up to,
even if you weren't so inclined, you get surrounded by an entourage
that's also heavily invested in your reputation," said Redelmeier. "So
you end up sleeping properly every night, eating well, exercising
regularly every day."<br>
</blockquote>
</font></blockquote>
</div>
Your points are good ones, Joe. It's like the problem of resilient
kids. Roughly one out of ten kids who grow up with single, abusive,
drug or drink-addled mothers end up as very successful adults. What do
these kids have in common? The find mentors, substitute parents to
whom they bond.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>This leaves us with a puzzle. Do these kids become more
successful because they have an attachment to a significat other, an
emotionally meaningful, nurturing other, something most tormented kids
like this lack? Or do these resilient kids have an attachment to a
mentor because the are born with better social instincts, the instincts
of self-confidence and extroversion that make them bold enough to find
others they can attach themselves to?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Which came first, the confidence or the social connection? Is
the success these kids have later in life due to their outgoing nature
or due to the mentors that outgoing nature brings? Or are the
two--confidence and social connection--inseparable?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Is there a gene-tweak or a womb-experience that makes for more
confident kids and others who are born with shyness and overwhelming
insecurities? In twin studies by an Italian researcher, regular
sonographic scans of the two kids in the womb showed that there was a
battle taking place in utero. One twin managed to take over the living
room of the womb--the central chamber, The other kid was shoved aside
and had to gestate in a corner, in a sort-of closet of the womb.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>When the two finally made it from the uterus into the outside
word, the winner of the womb war was outgoing and self-confident. When
a stranger showed up, the winner ran over clearly expecting to win the
stranger over. It saw this new social contact as an opportunity.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>The loser in the womb wars saw the same stranger and hugged its
mother's legs in panic, then ran off to something eerily like its old
uterine closet--it hid in a side room. ThIs kid saw a stranger as a
danger, not as a new opening.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Did the winner of the womb wars win by chance and then gain the
benefits of his land grab for intra-uterine space? Or was there some
gene-tweak that predestined him to win?</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Does womb-real estate change the nature of the kid--does it
change the way that genes express themselves? Or does some small
gene-fluke exist even in what we think of as genetically identical
kids? Howard</div>
<div> </div>
<div><font lang="0" face="Arial" size="2" family="SANSSERIF"
ptsize="10">----------<br>
Howard Bloom<br>
Author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the
Forces of History and Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The
Big Bang to the 21st Century<br>
Visiting Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University;
Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.howardbloom.net">www.howardbloom.net</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.bigbangtango.net">www.bigbangtango.net</a><br>
Founder: International Paleopsychology Project; founding board member:
Epic of Evolution Society; founding board member, The Darwin Project;
founder: The Big Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of
Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American
Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and
Evolution Society, International Society for Human Ethology; advisory
board member: Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New Paradigm book
series.<br>
For information on The International Paleopsychology Project, see:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.paleopsych.org">www.paleopsych.org</a><br>
for two chapters from <br>
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of
History, see <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.howardbloom.net/lucifer">www.howardbloom.net/lucifer</a><br>
For information on Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the
Big Bang to the 21st Century, see <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.howardbloom.net">www.howardbloom.net</a><br>
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