LE Part 5: The Team Message and "Tons of E-mails I Receive"

 Reading "Keep Everyone Informed, Involved, and Thinking About Solutions" answered a question I had. Dennis Parkins, the author of Leading at the Edge, writes "I have never seen a cohesive team when vital information is hoarded or restricted to a few key decision makers." As I've written before, now I belong to an organization called "H-LAB" and I play a role as a liaison officer, who tries to contact people who play active roles in various areas in society regularly, and ask them to give a presentation for high school students in the summer school we provide. Each other member has each assigned position. However, in our mailing list, there are tons of information and mails which ask members opinions about each decision they make. I receive at least twenty mails a day, and almost all of them are about the decision which has no relation in public relation. I did not quite understand why we had such a confusing and troublesome system, but Dennis Perkins and his story made me realize making every member involved and thinking about situations is very important for the entire team to go to the right direction as a whole. This system also plays a role as keeping transparency in our organization. Even though it is sometimes confusing, I understood it's essential for us to adapt this system as one team.