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This is a bit Random Delta Alum but I remember reading a passage in the book Dune where the one of the leaders said the goal of leaders is to maintain the level of the individual, without enough individuals, the group reverts to a mob (group think).
Group think, and even consensus, seems to always drop down to the lowest common denominator.
I have noticed that in dealing with male fraternities that there is a lack of operational integrity.
Usually the leadership manuals aren't very good, the alum officers are not trained nor have access to a lot of leadership resources, and theres no standardization of chapter procedures and operations.
Any leadership consultant would be horrified and not at all surprised at the fact that a lot of chapters go off the deep end.
Also many of the National's take the uneducated approach of listing what a chapter cannot do rather than what they can do. This is despite the literature which over the years bears out that you cannot live your life by only knowing what you don't want. It leaves you with no going towards goals. . .
If I were giving a Risk management seminar, I wouldn't sit there and just go over the manual, we College students are semi-literate its insulting.
But what I would do is give the seminar with a phonebook and before I left there would be a little chapter manual of third party vendors and places, with a contact name, and prices. As well as several different FUN events that require a chapter's resources and diminish liability.
Its moronic to sit there and just drone on and on about non-alcoholic events etc when we know the culture. The trick is to present viable alternatives that are relevant to the chapter and assist them in making plans.
Sometimes we are asking the social chair (which is usually a sophomore level position, which it shouldn't be) who may never even have made a frigging dinner reservation to find, call, and arrange an event with a thirdy party vendor at a location that needs to be contracted. Hello, if you don't hold the person's hand the first couple times it probably won't get done correctly.
Ok temporary ceasation of rant.
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