Determine Your Own Future or Someone Else Will

Marcelene Anderson

Description

If you want to transform your hopes, dreams and ideas into viable plans for realizing the future you want, then read this book!
This book is a practical guide for developing and successfully implementing a strategic plan to help you, your community or your organization realize your desired future goals. Marcelene Anderson shares a proven 7 step approach with examples from her 30-year experience collaborating with Indigenous groups and business organizations to self-determine their future.
This book will help you to:
• Develop and update strategic and operational plans to move your organization to reach your vision and goals
• Successfully implement your strategies to achieve your goals consistently.
• Build an executive team and engage employees who accomplish strategic priorities on time.

Sujets

• Economics
• Business

Informations

• Publié par: iUniverse
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781663218209
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Determine Your Own Future, or Someone Else Will
 
The Seven-Step Guide to Plan for Self Determination
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Marcelene Anderson
 
 
 

 
DETERMINE YOUR OWN FUTURE, OR SOMEONE ELSE WILL
THE SEVEN-STEP GUIDE TO PLAN FOR SELF DETERMINATION
 
Copyright © 2022 Marcelene Anderson.
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
 
 
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6632-1819-3 (sc)
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ISBN: 978-1-6632-1820-9 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021923712
 
 
 
iUniverse rev. date:   11/14/2022
 
We better pay attention to the future because that is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives there.
Joe Barker
About This Book
The title of this book has a two-part name: Determine Your Future, or Someone Else Will. Although Determine Your Future could apply to personal planning, it is, in fact, about organizational planning. More specifically, this book is dedicated to planning for native peoples in the Americas and worldwide, in Canada called Indigenous People. “Determining” implies making decisions, being proactive, taking charge of one’s future. Claiming to decide your future is a powerful self-declaration that I am responsible for my future. I am in charge. For millieums, Native and Indigenous Peoples had determined their future.
The second part of the title or, Someone Else Will , is significant. For centuries Indigenous and Native Peoples have been denied the right to make their own decisions. It may be difficult for non-Indigenous or non-Natives to understand why and how this came to be. The origins of the Doctrine of Discovery were not taught in public schools across North America but have had far devastating, profound implications that continue to this day.
Sadly, not one non-Indigenous person I have spoken with was familiar with the Doctrine of Discovery. Not one. Nor were several persons of Indigenous heritage, I asked. They are shocked when they are informed and immediately understand the vast consequences of it. At the recent Pope’s apology visit to Canada, Indigenous people across Canada continue to call for the Doctrine of Discovery to be rescinded, now with a stronger voice, while increasing the awareness of it with all Canadians and the necessity of addressing this issue.
The Doctrine of Discovery is a set of man-made rules that became accepted as legitimate for the purpose and convenience of the land hungry who wanted to expand their territory and gain resources. It disregarded and nullified the existence of Indigenous Peoples who had occupied their territories since time immemorial because they did not follow the Christian faith.
The Doctrine of Discovery, which originated as far back as 1493, became the international law, giving license to explorers to claim vacant land (terra nullius) in the name of their sovereign. That is, vacant land not populated by Christians. The occupants were not regarded as human, based on the Papal Bull, Doctrine of Discovery, 1493. 1
Briefly, it states. “If Christians did not occupy the land, they were considered vacant, therefore could be defined as “discovered,” allowing sovereignty, dominion, title, and jurisdiction claimed. It gave sovereignty or title of Indigenous traditional lands and territories to the Crown.” 2 It remains today “the legal justification for the colonial occupation of lands and nations.”
Although some thought the land in North America was unoccupied, it was far from vacant when European explorers began arriving. When Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492, 100 million Indigenous Peoples who constituted one-fifth of the world’s population, occupied the lands. 3 But, since they were not Christians, they were not considered humans and the land vacant.
Indigenous Peoples in Canada have waged multiple, lengthy legal battles to prove their existence before the arrival of European explorers. The Doctrine of Discovery is important today because it has never been renounced and remains the basis for Canadian law, and therefore continues to impact Indigenous Peoples to this day. 4
It made possible the Indian Act and its genocidal laws and policies, such as the residential school system and removal of Indigenous Peoples from traditional lands to reserves, criminalization of languages and cultural ceremonies, creation, recognition, and later denial of Treaty and Indigenous rights. 5
Increasingly, Native and Indigenous Peoples have fought for their rights and recognition, and often court decisions favouring Native rights are appealed or challenged by governments or the Crown.
It is time for new rules to be created and recognized. Ones that respect the rights of all people. This may sound like utopia. New world orders come into existence by people willing to dream and challenge the status quo.
The Assembly of First Nation report on Dismantling the Doctrine of Discover 2018 states it is essential to ensure a paradigm that is truthful about the history of past relations between First Nations and settlers be told. Everyone must recognize that Indigenous Peoples in sovereign nations occupied the land before contact. 6
The time is always right to do right.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Sylvia McAdam, author of Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery: A Call to Action, says the power resides in each of us to seek recourse when we see injustice. The Doctrine of Discovery effects all of us. If you are against the domination and discrimination of any peoples, then seek to question the information provided here and, together, let us do something so that a wrong can be corrected. 7
The second part of the title of this book or, Someone Else Will recognizes the importance of Native and Indigenous Peoples making decisions for themselves and their future. Long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, Native People had been self-governing.
The phrase “or Someone Else Will” originated by the late GE CEO, Jack Welsh, who, revealing a universal truth, said, “Control your destiny or someone else will.”
Many factors influence our ability to control our destiny, ranging from weather, inflation, the economy, government regulations, and a multitude of factors. However, we are not helpless. We can make choices for ourselves, our families, organizations, communities, and nations.
We have a God, Creator-given right to make decisions for our lives and future.
This book intends to provide you with a proven process to determine the future of your organization, community, or nation, thereby clarifying what you want to create, why, and how to bring it into existence, and in doing so, you will be exercising your right to determine your future. Such clarity empowers and emboldens us to take a stand, express our point of view, take-action, and argue for what is right and just.
The Seven-Step Guide to Plan for Self-Determination is organized in three main sections:
1. Developing Your Plan
2. Implementing Your Plan
3. Building Human and Organizational Capacity
It will provide you with seven major steps and guidelines to develop your plans, successfully execute them, improve the effectiveness of your organizational system and processes, and develop a high-performance organization. In summary, to create and determine the future you desire.
All people have a right to determine their future.
Marcelene Anderson
Dedication
I dedicate this book to the Dakhota* people whose original homeland was Southern Minnesota, where I grew up. Through my heart and mind connection with the Dakhota, I join with the Indigenous people everywhere in recognizing that we are all related, or as the Oglala Sioux say, mitaku oyasin:
“Let us work together for cultural reclamation, self-determination, and sovereignty, to heal and honor Mother Earth”.
*Dakhota is the original spelling that the people used, and today we tend to see it spelled without the ‘h’. Source—Minnesota Historical Society. Additionally, I have discovered that Dakota means “allies, friends.”
Contents
About This Book
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgment
Introduction: Why Strategic Planning is Vital to Achieving Results
 
Chapter 1: Why A Future-Focused Approach To Planning?
 
SECTION 1: Developing Your Plan
 
Chapter 2: Preparing-to-Plan - Getting ready to plan
Chapter 3: Step 1: Scanning for Future Trends - Adapting to a changing environment
LEVEL 1 - COMMUNITY PLANNING
Chapter 4: Community Planning - Engage community members in setting direction
LEV EL 2 - ORGANIZATIONAL PLANNING
Chapter 5: Step 2: Focusing Your Desired Future - Articulating your mission, core values, vision, and rallying cry
A. Articulating Your Organization’s Purpose and Mission
B. Crystallize Your Vision
C. Articulate Core Values