Gung ho!® 

- ken blanchard's organizational development system 

                                                                

Gung Ho!® is a relatively recent licensed methodology for developing and improving organizational culture and performance. Based on the Gung Ho! book by Ken Blanchard 

and Sheldon Bowles, the Gung Ho! process has been used by organizations around the world, and was recognized in 2000 by Human Resource Executive magazine as 

one of the Top Ten Training Programs. Ken Blanchard has some experience in this area: he's an acclaimed author, for example with Spencer Johnson he wrote The 

One Minute Manager. And with Paul Hersey, Blanchard developed the Situational Leadership Model. Based on these earlier successes, the Ken Blanchard group of 

companies has been a considerable presence in the training and development world for many years.

Today, more than ever, employees are looking for meaning in the work they do.

 

Gung Ho! is an an example of a modern 'packaged solution' (in the sense that it is a protected and marketed system) which aims to help provide more meaning at 

work, and for inspiring and motivating employees at all levels. Using Gung Ho! methodology is subject to licence and support -  it is not a system 

that anyone can use and it is most certainly not free.

 

The Gung Ho! approach focuses on sharing of information; aligning purpose, values, and goals of people and organization; frontline decision making responsibility; 

and celebration of successes. The Gung Ho! process is designed to respond to various organizational needs and to stay up-to-date with the ever-changing business world.

The three principles of Gung Ho! are:

 

· The Spirit of the Squirrel: 
Worthwhile Work

- Worthwhile work driven by goals and values, use of case studies, review goal standards for individuals and team members, Performance-Values Matrix, and action planning.

 

 

· The Way of the Beaver: 
In Control of Achieving the Goal

-  Putting workers in control of achieving the goal,  Analysis of leader behaviours needed for peak performance; 'Win As Much As You Can' experience validates the importance of trust in teams, and 

further action planning.

 

 

· The Gift of the Goose: 
Cheering Each Other On

- 'Cheering Each Other On', the power of feedback, rewards and recognition, story-telling, and final Quotient analysis action planning.

 

 

Gung Ho! also includes a clear game plan with a step-by-step outline for instituting these groundbreaking ideas.

 

Gung ho! introduction and implementation best practice

The Blanchard organization states that the single best approach for accelerating the creation of a Gung Ho! culture is to introduce and explain the model and 

process first to top management.

 

This allows the senior executive team to understand the Gung Ho! process and begin changing their own behaviour.

Gung Ho! is aimed at leaders and managers with formal supervisory responsibility in their organizations. The Gung Ho! process is focused on changing an 

organization's culture, so it makes sense that those exposed to the methods and techniques should have the authority and motivation to modify organization's 

practices.

 

Cascading the development and working through identified in-house Gung Ho! work teams is also a proven method of implementation.

 

Gung Ho! can also be customised for large organizations with more specific requirements including branded materials. It can also be supported via 'train the 

trainer' programmes, and is accessible by smaller organizations via public workshops.

 

Gung Ho! is an example of the empowering organizational development increasingly being used by today's successful companies.

 

 

 

 

 

Meaning

Zealous and eager.

Origin

This is an adaptation of the Chinese kung - work, and ho - together. The Anglicized term gung ho became widely known in English as a slogan that was adopted in WWII by the United States Marines under General Evans Carlson. The New York Times Magazine reported this in 1942:

"Borrowing an idea from China, Carlson frequently has what he calls 'kung-hou' meetings... Problems are threshed out and orders explained."

The following year Life magazine reported:

"He [Carlson] told them [the Marines] of the motto of the Chinese Co-operatives, Gung Ho. It means Work Together... My motto caught on and they began to call themselves the Gung Ho Battalion."

The first record of gung ho in print was a little earlier. In October 1941, the Oakland Tribune reported a story about some captured short war films. This doesn't mention Carlson or the US Marines by name, but the films relate to their activities:

"Other shorts are 'Information Please' and 'Gung Ho' with Regan McCrary."

 

GungHo had to serve in the military:
Cheney's Five Draft Deferments During the Vietnam Era Emerge as a Campaign Issue
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: May 1, 2004
WASHINGTON, April 30 — It was 1959 when Dick Cheney, then a student at Yale University, turned 18 and became eligible for the draft.

Eventually, like 16 million other young men of that era, Mr. Cheney sought deferments. By the time he turned 26 in January 1967 and was no longer eligible for the draft, he had asked for and received five deferments, four because he was a student and one for being a new father.

Although President Richard M. Nixon stopped the draft in 1973 and the war itself ended 29 years ago on Friday, the issue of service remains a personally sensitive and politically potent touchstone in the biographies of many politicians from that era.

For much of Mr. Cheney's political career, his deferments have largely been a nonissue.

In an increasingly vituperative political campaign, Mr. Cheney this week again questioned the credentials of Senator John Kerry and his ability to be commander in chief. Mr. Kerry, who was decorated in Vietnam and has made his service there a central element of his campaign, fired back.

Putting Mr. Cheney's record in the spotlight, Mr. Kerry said that he "got every deferment in the world and decided he had better things to do."

Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for the Bush-Cheney campaign, dismissed the criticism, saying that Mr. Kerry was delving into a subject that he had said he would not touch. Mr. Schmidt said that Mr. Kerry was trying to divert attention from what the spokesman said was Mr. Kerry's reversals on other topics.

While Mr. Cheney's deferment history was briefly an issue when George W. Bush picked him as his running mate in 2000, the Democrats did not focus on it after Al Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee, who had served in Vietnam, picked as his running mate Senator Joseph Lieberman , who also had not served.

The issue also received little attention during Mr. Cheney's Senate confirmation hearings as defense secretary in 1989 under the first President Bush, largely because the Armed Services Committee had just completed a bitter and protracted battle over the president's original choice, John G. Tower. Mr. Tower had faced questions about philandering, drinking and conflicts over defense contracts before he was rejected.

Senators of both parties were so eager to confirm Mr. Cheney quickly that they were relatively undemanding, not pressing him on the draft but merely asking him if he had anything to say about it.

He said he "never served" because of deferments to finish a college career that lasted six years rather than four, which he attributed to subpar academic performance and the fact that he had to work to pay for his education.

He added that he "would have obviously been happy to serve had I been called."

Away from the hearing room, he told the Washington Post that he had sought his deferments because "I had other priorities in the 60's than military service."

"I don't regret the decisions I made," he added. "I complied fully with all the requirements of the statutes, registered with the draft when I turned 18. Had I been drafted, I would have been happy to serve."

But others contend that Mr. Cheney appeared to go to some length to avoid the draft.

"Five deferments seems incredible to me," said David Curry, a professor at the University of Missouri in St. Louis who has written extensively about the draft, including a 1985 book, "Sunshine Patriots: Punishment and the Vietnam Offender."

"That's a lot of times for the draft board to say O.K.," Mr. Curry said.

In February 1962, when Mr. Cheney was classified as 1-A — available for service — he was doing poorly at Yale. But the military was taking only older men at that point, and like others who were in college at the time, Mr. Cheney seemed to have little concern about being drafted.

In June, he left Yale. After returning home to Casper, a small city in east-central Wyoming, he worked as a lineman for a power company.

At that point, the Vietnam War was still just a glimmer on the horizon. In 1962, only 82,060 men were inducted into the service, the fewest since 1949. Mr. Cheney was eligible for the draft but, as he said during his confirmation hearings in 1989, he was not called up because the Selective Service System was taking only older men.

But by 1963, ferment in Vietnam was rising. Mr. Cheney enrolled in Casper Community College in January 1963 — he turned 22 that month — and sought his first student deferment on March 20, according to records from the Selective Service System. After transferring to the University of Wyoming at Laramie, he sought his second student deferment on July 23, 1963.

On Aug. 7, 1964, Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which allowed President Lyndon B. Johnson to use unlimited military force in Vietnam. The war escalated rapidly from there.

Just 22 days later, Mr. Cheney married his high school sweetheart, Lynne. He sought his third student deferment on Oct. 14, 1964.

In May 1965, Mr. Cheney graduated from college and his draft status changed to 1-A. But he was married, which offered him some protection.

In July, President Johnson announced that he was doubling the number of men drafted. The number of inductions soared, to 382,010 in 1966 from 230,991 in 1965 and 112,386 in 1964.

Mr. Cheney obtained his fourth deferment when he started graduate school at the University of Wyoming on Nov. 1, 1965.

On Oct. 6, 1965, the Selective Service lifted its ban against drafting married men who had no children. Nine months and two days later, Mr. Cheney's first daughter, Elizabeth, was born. On Jan. 19, 1966, when his wife was about 10 weeks pregnant, Mr. Cheney applied for 3-A status, the "hardship" exemption, which excluded men with children or dependent parents. It was granted.

In January 1967, Mr. Cheney turned 26 and was no longer eligible for the draft.

Of the 26.8 million men who were eligible for the draft between 1964 and 1973, only 2.2 million were drafted while 8.7 million joined voluntarily, according to "Chance and Circumstance: the Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation," a 1978 book by Lawrence M. Baskir and William A. Strauss. Mr. Cheney was among the vast majority of 16 million men — about 60 percent of those eligible — who avoided the draft by legal means.

The deferment process proved controversial, discriminating against men who were black or poor, and a lottery was introduced in 1969. President Nixon did away with student deferments in 1971 and the draft ended in 1973.

But the deferments left such a bitter after-effect that the Selective Service says on its Web site that if a draft were reinstituted, it would be conducted much differently and there would be fewer excuses for people to get out of it.

At the time of his confirmation hearings as defense secretary, Mr. Cheney said that he had not taken any action either for or against the military during the Vietnam War. But, he told an interviewer at the time, "I think those who did in fact serve deserve to be honored for their service."

Of American involvement in Vietnam, he said: "Was it a noble cause? Yes, indeed, I think it was."

Being Gung Ho means overly enthusiastic, in all the way if some one is GungHo about something they live and breathe that thing, I am gung ho about my church, I am there when its open always

 

GungHo with other country language:

 

Dansk (Danish)

adj. - begejstret, fandenivoldsk, krigerisk

 

Français (French) 

adj. - va-t'en-guerre, (trop) enthousiaste

 

Deutsch (German) 

adj. - wild entschlossen

 

Ελληνική (Greek) 

adj. - υπερπρόθυμος, υπερενθουσιώδης

 

Italiano (Italian) 

fanatico, voglioso di combattere

 

Português (Portuguese) 

adj. - tola ou excessivamente entusiasmado

 

Русский (Russian) 

раз-два, взяли!, фанатичный, легковерный, горячий (о человеке)

 

Español (Spanish) 

adj. - leal, entusiasta, oficioso

 

Svenska (Swedish) 

adj. - gåpåig

 

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified)) 

起劲的, 协力的, 热心的

 

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional)) 

adj. - 起勁的, 協力的, 熱心的

 

한국어 (Korean) 

adj. - 열렬한, 열광적인

 

日本語 (Japanese) 

adj. - 忠勇無双の

 

עברית (Hebrew) 

adj. - ‮נלהב, מהיר-פעולה, חסר-מעצורים‬

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Company: H & Y International Trading Pty Ltd

Country:  GREECE
 

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