Zen and Asset Based Community Development

Sarasota City Manager Mike McNees and Rev Damon Lynch at the Manasota Regional Neighborhoods Summit.

The Zen teachers ...

City Management and Community Economic Development are both Zen like endeavours ....

Every organization needs to energize its people. In doing so, it converts its inner strengths and draws within to finally act with boundless energy, completing tasks without appearing unnecessarily stressed. It binds the inner and outer strengths of its people and marshals the energy into completing tasks the natural way. Such an energizing also entails self-mastery and self-regulation.

Translated you need to get the "people" motivated to do what they know should be done. Not a good explanation but I also agree... It is also my management style (if I have one) -- here is what we need to do ... what part are you excited about..