<div dir="ltr"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d90007bb-44f8-c0c0-1807-df974392ad66"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d90007bb-44f8-c0c0-1807-df974392ad66" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;white-space:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d90007bb-44f8-c0c0-1807-df974392ad66" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;white-space:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Intersections of...</span></b></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d90007bb-44f8-c0c0-1807-df974392ad66" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;white-space:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Garbage Can Model of Decision Making </span></b></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d90007bb-44f8-c0c0-1807-df974392ad66" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;white-space:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Political Leadership Style</span></b></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d90007bb-44f8-c0c0-1807-df974392ad66" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;white-space:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Laissez-faire Leadership Style</span></b></p></li></ul><b id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-d90007bb-44f8-c0c0-1807-df974392ad66" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;white-space:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Garbage Can Model (GCM) is the idea that organizational decisions are made by a random matching of various problems to solutions or vice versa that have been gathered by the organization. By chance, some pairings work while others do not.  These opportunities for pairing or decision making are referred to as ‘choice opportunities.’</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A Political  Leadership (PL) Style is when the leader uses his/her abilities to gather resources for the intentions of promoting and achieving organizational goals.  This is done by strategically using these resources to deal with an unstable and fluid environment.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The leader who removes himself/herself from typical leadership duties and decision making is considered to have a Laissez-faire Leadership (L-f) Style.</span></p><br><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I want to first clarify that for intersection purposes, we will have to assume that we are referring to a Laissez-faire leadership style having members who lack skills, knowledge, and experience.  If members are intrinsically motivated and talented, then L-f would have few intersection components with GCM and L-f.  Also, to try and avoid repeating the concepts, we will order our descriptive intersections GCM, PL, and L-f respectively.  For example, the first commonality descriptions of the three concepts is chaos (GCM), jungle (PL), and struggle for informal hierarchy of power (L-f).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Each concept gathers resources in the sense that GCM has a compilation of problems and solutions; PL gathers allies, networks, and coalitions; while although absent, L-f leaders still provide tools and resources for members to use.  All three concepts tend to make decisions randomly without structure, often through coercion, and lacking any kind of micromanagement.  Finally, they all also arguably lack collective efficacy. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If we explore the GCM and PL intersections while leaving out L-f, we will see that decision makers are mostly disconnected from problems and solutions, but the leader can help to foster better decisions by understanding the political arena in which the decisions affect. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The L-f style will allow for an informal political arena to develop. This is due to the lack of managerial leadership which likely causes a power vacuum.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Finally, as a pair, GCM and L-f have strong intersections as well.  Both concepts lack rules, preferences and processes are unclear, the value of a leader is not emphasized, and neither concepts are change oriented. </span></p></b><br><p></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tony Gillman</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">​<br></span></p><div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