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Shades of Blue: Lenses and Perspectives on Organizational Dynamics Graduate Studies Journal of Organizational Dynamics Volume 1 Issue 1 Summer 2011 Article 2 2011 Shades of Blue: Lenses and Perspectives on Organizational Dynamics Scott Yarosh University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/gsjod Recommended Citation Yarosh, Scott (2011) "Shades of Blue: Lenses and Perspectives on Organizational Dynamics," Graduate Studies Journal of Organizational Dynamics: Vol. 1 : Iss. 1 , Article 2. Available at: https://repository.upenn.edu/gsjod/vol1/iss1/2 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/gsjod/vol1/iss1/2 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Shades of Blue: Lenses and Perspectives on Organizational Dynamics Abstract Some of the most influential people in my life had blue eyes: Carolina blue, iceberg blue, Scottish blue, and others. In seeking inspiration for my path of study toward the Master of Science degree in Organizational Dynamics, I have explored my own life and history as well as the history of our country to look through the lenses of the blue eyes of influential people. rF om their perspectives and my own, what would be the most important questions to ask and research during the next several years at Penn? As I am very early in my course of study, this paper will set forth some of those questions and will tell my story of inquiry and hope for enlightenment and knowledge. Cover Page Footnote Suggested Citation: Yarosh, S. (2011). Shades of Blue: Lenses and Perspectives on Organizational Dynamics. Graduate Studies Journal of Organizational Dynamics. Vol. 1(1). This journal article is available in Graduate Studies Journal of Organizational Dynamics: https://repository.upenn.edu/ gsjod/vol1/iss1/2 Yarosh: Shades of Blue Graduate Studies Journal of Organizational Dynamics, Summer 2011, Volume 1, Number 1 SHADES OF BLUE LENSES AND PERSPECTIVES ON ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS SCOTT YAROSH Organizational Dynamics Graduate Studies University of Pennsylvania Some of the most influential people in my life had blue eyes: Carolina blue, iceberg blue, Scottish blue, and others. In seeking inspiration for my path of study toward the Master of Science degree in Organizational Dynamics, I have explored my own life and history as well as the history of our country to look through the lenses of the blue eyes of influential people. From their perspectives and my own, what would be the most important questions to ask and research during the next several years at Penn? As I am very early in my course of study, this paper will set forth some of those questions and will tell my story of inquiry and hope for enlightenment and knowledge. Published by ScholarlyCommons, 2011 1 Graduate Studies Journal of Organizational Dynamics, Vol. 1 [2011], Iss. 1, Art. 2 Shades of Blue Shades of Blue The Brilliant Blue Eyes of Youth – Pennsylvania. My hope is that both he, and Innovation I, will be innovative in creating our futures. My son Samuel has Carolina blue eyes. Iceberg Blue – Consulting He is fifteen years old, brilliant, and gifted academically and athletically. His wisdom My wife, Debbie, has beautiful blue seems to grow daily, and his common sense eyes that are the magnificent color of an approach to relationships is quite Alaskan blue iceberg. Clear and focused, impressive. When I imagine myself sparkling with life and interest. And looking through the lens of my fifteen-year- intelligence. Debbie, years ago, started an old son’s eyes, I can’t help being impressed IT consulting company, “Yarosh by the size of the world he is entering as a Consulting, Inc.” OK, maybe not the most young man. Even though, or perhaps creative of names, but, from a name- because, technology has brought everyone recognition perspective, it has paid off. She closer in terms of communication channels has come from nowhere, by herself, and has (texting, tweeting, e-mail, on-demand video had terrific success over the years at sharing), questions about the nature of completing numerous medium- and large- global business, organizations, and scale custom software development projects specifically innovation in culture and for many local clients. She is well known business are interests my son inspires in in the West Chester, Pennsylvania area for me. How will innovation today and her dedication to getting the job done with tomorrow be accomplished? How do we high quality and personal care. think in the US regarding innovation vs. The question I ask myself when how do other countries around the globe looking through her consulting lens is: how approach inventing new things? How will could I, too, wrap consulting and leadership we empower the youth of today to think skills around my own IT knowledge to innovatively and how will they take new, potentially branch out to start my own IT potentially global ideas and collaborate consulting company one day? What would across cultures, to improve the world? it take to break away from the big- These questions I ask both from business organization world of which I am a part and organizational perspectives as well as today? Can I not only learn the know-how from sociological and sustainability to do this, but also combine it with a clear perspectives. Innovation how do we do know-why (Kleiner, 2008) perspective as it, improve it, and enable it to have an well? What consulting, coaching, and impact on our lives today and tomorrow? communication skills should I cultivate to How do we make it easy for people to broaden my current leadership skills? experiment with new ideas, giving them the Could I do this? Would it work? How necessary thinking time (Hamel, 2007, p. would I make it happen? Consulting and 55) to innovate? Writing a great story of coaching in the world of IT: rich veins for and in our future will require innovation. exploration. My son Samuel not only has Carolina Even my younger son, Tim, is inspired blue eyes but also wants to wear the jersey by his mom’s success. He’s only twelve of the Carolina Blue Tar Heels. Not a bad and is already talking about how he will choice, although the Duke Blue Devils take over her company some day. Maybe would be a good fit for him as would the my education in this program can inspire blue (and red) of the University of him to do great things as well. https://repository.upenn.edu/gsjod/vol1/iss1/2 2 Yarosh: Shades of Blue Shades of Blue Azure – Altruism and Sustainability pain, pain that would become slightly less apparent over the years following the war, Scottish born and Presbyterian, my but pain that would never fully disappear or grandfather, Henry Watson McHutchison, be forgotten. Educated after the war as a was a thirty-second degree Mason as well chemical engineer at Bucknell University, as a Shriner. He lived all over the world my dad, Frank Yarosh, enjoyed a long with his family, including my mom, and career in a Philadelphia-based utility eventually returned to and lived in company. Having managed an organization Philadelphia. I do not claim to be an expert of more than six hundred and fifty people, (yet) on Freemasonry, but I do believe that my dad had experience in senior to have had such high standing in that management as well as in mentoring young order, my grandfather must have engineers just out of college. He was contributed to society, organizations, and customer-focused; he had to be, as he ran a life in a very positive, moral way, as customer service department for the Masons would be expected to do. company. But he was even more Expanding upon the theme of giving back, employee-focused, so much so that he a Masonic theme, how can I improve my never even missed a funeral of an employee contributions to the organizations in which or a funeral of one of their significant I work and participate? Perhaps “it takes a family members. He cared. He was moral imperative” (Hamel, 2007, p. 63) to present. He was a leader. have a really successful organization. In what ways can I contribute to a moral His leadership skills originated, I imperative? What would that foster within believe, in his youth as he grew up in a coal an organization? What are some mining town in up-state Pennsylvania. The possibilities? Is joining a group such as the son of a coal miner, he was tough. It was Masons an opportunity to give back that toughness that helped him survive the effectively? Are there other organizations I significant ordeals of the German POW could join that would be equally effective camp. As for me, he never told me what to and fulfilling? In what ways can I find do, including not answering my career satisfaction in community service within questions. He would listen, but he would my current organization? Mentoring guide me to make my own decisions. And I perhaps? Does studying and contributing to did. I made some mistakes along the way, sustainability within the DYNM program but I have learned from them. Memories of present opportunities not only for helping my dad inspire me to ask how can I build organizations become sustainable (and upon my strengths and find my potential green), but also for improving the larger (Morgan, 2006) to achieve excellence in community in which I live? leadership? The lens of my grandfather’s eyes, his This program will afford me many blue, Scottish-flag-blue, eyes and the life he opportunities to ask these types of led provide the inspiration for the start of questions. I only hope I turn out to be half my own altruistic story.
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