MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON TEAMS
from JWM Files
On the Teams:
"We have become geniuses at teamwork that gets
things done. We can now go out and accomplish miracles. Now we
need to think of the ontological essentiality of the team and
push ourselves towards experience of that reality. Maybe we should
watch some movies again, like 'Battle of Algiers' or 'The Guns
of Navarrone'. That last one had a scene in it where one of the
team was wounded. The leader came up and said, "We have a
choice: we can leave you behind and make it through, or we can
take you along and probably fail; now what would you do?' His
answer, of course, was to leave him behind. But that was the team
dynamic. And maybe there are some movies that don't use the war
theme. . . ."
Any 6 can make a decision affecting the destiny of
us all. Teams keep competition, creative tension. The center table
is for commonness. It is run from the little tables toward the
center. In the team CONSTRUCT, you cut across centrums. In congregations
you would be a team 24 hours of the day. You take care of each
other by caring about the task.
The ONTOLOGICAL MEANING: When that happens you discover
you find everything you have ever wanted: acceptance, etc. In
pioneer days the family was a team. They had to survive and natural
relationships came; people did not worry whether someone liked
them or not. In a revolution you end up riding someone and you
are lost. A revolutionary can only afford to care for every man.
FUNCTION A team cannot know itself unless it has intentional relationship under that which subsumes itself. Primal community is prior to the family
The team is the transocial, as the model is transrational.
No one cares about our order. The day after tomorrow the team
will play a crucial role in post modern world, What celibacy was
to the former world. At one time you were expected to do one thing;
that is no longer true. We have grasped the ontological dimension.
The Roman Catholics tried to communicate that a nun was the bride
of Christ.
At first I thought a team anybody could do. But it
is a state of being. If I were to teach again there would be no
individual grades. A team would get A or F - To get them to discover
this consciousness. It would enhance their singularity and they
would live in astonishment of themselves which is the richness
of life. You would be a community. Life is a team; effectivity
is a team; a team is life.
Think through history. When families were teams.
There was authenticity in the team. The teams hold the tension.
We cannot operate architectonically. The team avoids lackeyism.
Primal Community, like Ada is the prior value. You
cannot have teams without the center table or the primal community.
In teaching school you would mix brights and dulls, variety of
personalities. You would not compartmentalize them according to
subject matters although they would be necessary at firs. You
would have four people just work together on an assignment.
Teams and contradictions go together. We need to
read sociality rather than come up with an idea. Teams and direct
action go together. Team up when there is something to attack.
You would seek the Holy Grail alone. They are not permanent.
Team has nothing to do with people. Time is a factor
but not a crucial factor. That doesn't mean that when the contradiction
is gone, the team dissolves, although they could . It is dynamical.
They are related to the total. The center table remained in the
center. The team acts in a programmatic action, rather than tactics.
In the Senate and House, the members are assigned to various committees.
DISCIPLINE. The quality is unbelievable. The team
cannot exist without corporateness or discipline. You cannot have
1 goof off. There is a quality of the brutal in it; you dont give
a damn about each other, though you care for each other. Now we
care for ourselves. Tomorrow we will care for each other. Now
tomorrow we will care for each other in a team in order to care
for the world; you get your job done. Then appreciation and acceptance
would be squared. Getting out of bed and getting to worship is
a team's job; because in essence that is what a team is. Because
you are a team it happens. The ESSENTIAL QUALITY of a team is
that.
Platonicaly we can't superimpose the contradictions
on each team. We could assign a team to one task, next week another
team. The team is prior to the contradiction. The team would run
the groups. Clustering is the key. You don't have to have people
around to have a team. Wherever you are if you are a team there
is a team. You are doing team work if a long length of time expires.
Band, and it is done. We have to way what it means to be done.
You carry the action to its consummation.
1. Twelve on a teamsix on a unit
2. Make the team/unit the crucial dynamic
3. Operate 2 by 2 in terms of effective operation
4. The 4 cares: spirit, mind, physical, vocational
5. Preset and on time (accountability)
6. Crack troops: corporate discipline
B. Common journey
8. Wednesday nite meeting
9. Celebration
10. Futuric mission by teams (family
11. Team assignment by families
12. Send a team to Mexico
13. Team battleplan
1. work structure
2. crack troop discipline
3. members recruited to Order
4. Funds raised
5. Collegium participation
6. Celebration, fellowhood
7. Care structures
14. Toward local autonomy
15. In and out unite.
The team is a DYNAMIC OF SOCIALITY, AS A DYNAMIC
OF OPERATION
The Washington situation forced us to work as a team.
You experienced yourself as a squad. It intensified experience
as solitariness. It could be sent anywhere.
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TEAM/UNIT
1. Less on care and accountability
2. Obedience
3. St. John
The team provides the practical context that enables each individual
to act out his own decision to be interiorly discipline for the
sake of the future. The individual's decision to be at daily office
is held accountable within the team; his decision to engage in
creative research is focused in the team. The enablement of the
corporate body through the one day wonder is focused through the
team at the unit level. Solitary brooding is enabled by the team.
The external form of the team is designed to enable, not replace,
the internal discipline of the movement.
Corporate work by teams and units dramatizes the dependency of
the whole body of it on each of its basic troop divisions. What
does it mean for a whole team to assume responsibility for a given
practical area of life and do it along with all else they do,
to symbolize there is no thing in life that is insignificant.
No thing that we are not striving to transform into the art form
of humanness.
Team is CARE, EDUCATION, MISSIONAL unit. When I am on a team I
pull out of you what I need. Others look brilliant to me. It makes
overt effectivity, power.
When someone is on your team, you end up loving them all. You
honor them
There is a new kind of corporateness emerging.
1. buddies in a common war
The dimensions of the task is care for group of people and get
them released into history. It is turned out ness. You find yourself
empowered. There is ease in doing what you have to do
When someone is in trouble you counsel them before the fact, from
afar. It is done objectively. Keep the reality of the dark nite
of the soul and the voice of God wring in their ears. You tell
your troubles in a group. In that way to tell your troubles to
yourself, to God.
The transrational if the model; the transocial is the team. The
team is an ontological phenomenon. It is a SOCIAL DYNAMIC. Training
is transocial as well as transrational. It is education. In Austin
we did corporateness in the midst of engagement (University work).
The center table does not run it. The smaller ones do.
Any 6 can make a decision affecting the destiny of us all.
Teams keep competition, creative tension. The center table is
for commonness. It is run from the little tables toward the center
in the team CONSTRUCT, you cut across centrums.
In congregations you would be a team 24 hours of the day.
You take care of each other by caring about the task.
The ONTOLOGICAL MEANING: When that happens you discover you find
everything you have ever wanted: acceptance, etc. In pioneer days
the family was a team. They had to survive and natural relationships
came; people did not worry whether someone liked them or not.
In a revolution you end up riding someone and you are lost. A
revolutionary can only afford to care for every man.
FUNCTION A team cannot know itself unless it has intentional relationship
under that which subsumes itself. Primal community is prior to
the family.