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0 i THE TAMPA TRIBUNE Tuesday, May 7, 1985 Section Kenneth Blanchard i The One Minute Manager Building trust will take time I 1J ,,,1 iiimm, I I Jf Dear Dr. Blanchard: I've set i One Minute goals with my people. However, I'm not sure if they really agree with the goals we've selected. I How can I get them to level with me? Sincere Dear Sincere: Remember that the implementation of One Minute Management with your people is a journey, not a destination. Merely announcing that you are going to set One Minute Goals with the appropriate follow-up does not i necessarily mean that the whole procedure will be done perfectly at first.

Starting. the idea and having it run effectively are two different things. The journey from start to effective implementation is what you must manage. One of the One I Minute Manager's favorite sayings is: "Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly at first" The question of whether your people agree with the goals selected is a real one that everyone must face. In the beginning, people will test the waters to determine just how i honest they can be with you.

If you are like many other managers, you've attempted to initiate a number of management programs in Tribune photo by SUSAN KIRKMAN Former nun Rosemary Curb says she left the convent because she found life there to be emotionally and intellectually stifling. M-) r. 'K' I I'VC Vi tA I 7f 11 i 'I Suit' a wwwn A IIIII-HWW I Mmil.TI.IM.WIII.. T7 Tl 0 Ex-nun Rosemary Curb, a lesbian and an English professor at Rollins College, co-edited the controversial book, "Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence." the past with varying success. Employees tend to hold back their commitment to a program until they are sure that you're really serious about it.

Why should they jump in only to. risk their relationship with you? Why should they disagree with you now about goals when they don't even have any assurance that you will follow up and use the goals established when it comes time for performance i reviews? In other words, building trust takes time. Also, your people are probably i wondering whether you are going to use these goals to catch them doing things correctly or incorrectly. One of the objections I frequently hear about Management by Objectives is that it gives managers a dandy tool i for beating up on their Before goals were established, i managers had to be creative in order to decide who was going to get high ratings and who was going to end up in the basement MBO took the guesswork out of low-balling people. All eyes are on you, "Sincere." Your people are waiting to see if you will really behave like a One Minute Manager or if you are just talking about it They're wondering if you're just setting goals now but will go back to the traditional management approach, which emphasizes negative performance.

Stick with the program. Recognize that it's going to be a process that will take a year or two to establish. Set clear goals everyone can agree upon. Whether this is done is determined by your use of the goal-setting program, which places heavy emphasis on the positive, not the negative. There will be some rough spots and confusing times in the beginning.

But continually changing your management philosophy is the same as trading your spouse for a new one. Nothing really changes unless you make a commitment to make it work. Send your question or problem to The One Minute Manager, in care of the Universal Press Syndicate, 4400 Johnson Drive, Fairway, Kan. 66205. Universal Press Syndicate and anti-Catholic just on the basis of the title.

Have you heard from nuns? Yes I have had direct response from nuns and it's been all positive like on the "Hour Magazine" when the nun stood up and identified herself and said, "I'm sure we have many lesbians in our community and I think this is valuable." I've had that response from nuns in the congregation I belonged to The response from nuns has been overwhelmingly positive. Have you had any response from nuns who said, "This is Just going to make life harder on us in the convent?" They haven't said it to me directly. There was a nun quoted in some newspaper that I read who said something negative. I can't remember what it was, but she didn't talk to me directly. This may sound incredible, but all the negative remarks that I've heard are from people who haven't seen the book.

Anybody who has seen the book knows that it's not sensational, that it's not anti-Catholic. It's not pro-Catholic either. The church is merely the backdrop for the stories of the lives of the women. Could you have just as easily written this book about lesbians who were not nuns? No, I don't think so, because my primary interest was to talk about the intersections of these two categories. Because they are both members of autonomous female communities independent of male control.

I suppose you could say that religious communities are under the control of the bishop or the pope or religious superiors, but in reality, the daily See NUNS, Page 2D could not predict how the book would affect religious communities. "Some nuns may feel exposed or suspect," she said. "This book does not assert that all or even most nuns are lesbians. Nor does it condemn or condone sexual activity in convents. Rather, it simply cracks open some crusty old prejudices to voice the truth that daughters and sisters have always resisted the rigidity of the fathers." Published in March, the book already has sold 125,000 copies.

Its publisher, Barbara Grier, said during a recent telephone interview that she expects it to be 1985's best-selling trade paperback. "Rosemary and Nancy will make a great deal of money from it," she said, "although it won't be right away. But they stand to make a lot of money over the next four or five years." The editors have appeared on the "Phil Donahue Show" and other talk shows around the country. And predictably, they have come up against much criticism. A typical reaction came from Marie Augusta Neal, a Boston professor and nun whose research specialty is religious women.

She called the book's title "a false presentation" because she said it describes a tiny minority of nuns. Books such as Curb and Manahan's, she said, are likely to discredit the Important justice and peace work of nuns. In St Petersburg Beach attending the Florida NOW conference recently, Curb talked about her book and about how her beliefs have changed since she left the convent in 1965 after seven years. She left she said, because she found the convent emotionally and intellectually stifling. After leaving, she taught biology in northern Nebraska, married, had a daughter, divorced and earned a Ph.D.

Today, she is a professor in the English department at Rollins College in Winter Park and lives with her daughter, Lisa, who will graduate from high school this year. What kind of reaction has your book had from Roman Catholic Church leaders? I haven't had personal reaction. No bishop has called me up and said, "This is what I think." The only reaction from the so-called official church, namely bishops and people who identify themself as representatives of bishops and archbishops, who coincidently all happen to be men, have been published proclamations. What I read in the newspapers is all I know. Bishop (Peter) Conley (spokesman for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston) did admit that he had not read the book.

In fact he hadn't even seen the book. He only heard the title and decided that it was pornographic TO VI By KAREN HAYMON LONG Tribune Staff Writer When Rosemary Curb told her mother she was editing a book on lesbian nuns, her mom warned her against it with the question, "Why hurt those nice people in the Catholic Church?" But Curb, a lesbian and a former nun, did-, n't look at it that way. Instead, she thought of the book, co-edited, with another lesbian and ex-nun, Nancy Manahan, as breaking centuries of silence on a subject worth shedding light on. "Fears like hers perpetuate the silence that keeps the closet locked, whereas telling the truth about our lives can set us free," Curb wrote in the introduction to her book, "Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence" (Naiad Press 1985, (The book is available in the Bay area at B. Dalton Bookseller and Waldenbooks, among other bookstores.) The idea for the book was born when the two editors met and found they had their les-" bianism and their experiences as nuns in common.

They decided that their stories should be told, so they set out to find other former nuns who were lesbians. In their search, the two women say, they spoke with several hundred lesbian nuns and ex-nuns. The result is a book that includes 51 stories, each about a nun or former nun who either realized they were lesbians while in the convent or after leaving. Most of the stories were written by the lesbians themselves; the others were written by Curb and Manahan. Nine were written by lesbians who are still nuns.

In the book's introduction, Curb said she fTSTT Walt Belcher Television U4t eyebrows in TV newsrooms from Miami to Jacksonville. Most newsrooms, Including The Tampa Tribune and all of the Tampa Bay area TV stations with newsrooms WTSP, Channel 10; WTOG, Channel 44; WXFL, Channel and WTVT, Channel 13 do not pay for Interviews. Channel 13 News Director Jim West said Luck's documentary walked a thin line between a TV special and news. He said Luck's piece "could have set a dangerous precedent" "I've never heard of such a thing happening In Florida before. We wouldn't do it here," West said.

"When you start paying people to tell you their story, then there's al- 1 Denny ways the Channel Faulder "And much You're tell his or Orlando TV station pays price for McLain story 7 Inside Fans crazy for Madonna 2 Madonna's "Crazy for You" is the top-selling single recording from the current Billboard. For a list of the other top singles, see Notebook. Waiting for a male pill 3 A reader wonders why it's taking so long to develop a male oral contraceptive. See Dr. Solomon's health column.

ABC announces fall schedule 8 ABC dropped "Three's a Crowd," "Matt Houston'" and "T.J. Hooker" and picked up NBC's recently canceled "Diff'rent Strokes." controlled setting," Faulder added. Luck feels differently. "It was a half-hour TV special. It was not a news interview for the 6 p.m.

news. We never pay for news interviews," Luck said. "In fact if anyone so much as suggests that kind of thing, I'll slam the phone down so fast his ears will ring. But this was different The TV special was packaged to be sold to other TV stations." But is there a difference between a "TV special" and a "news report" as far as the viewers are concerned? What are viewers to think when one night they see Luck and McLain rapping about McLaln's glory days and then the next night they see Luck reporting about McLaln's sentence? Luck talks about the payment to McLain as though it were a gesture of kindness. "I had gone to prison to see McLain while he was waiting sentencing, and during our conversations, he mentioned that he was broke, but he didn't ask for money.

I Orlando TV sportscaster Rod Luck says he's taking a lot of heat from fellow Journalists for paying former baseball great Denny McLain $3,500 for the pitcher's life story. Luck, of WCPX, Channel 6, in Orlando, arranged to give the money to McLaln's wife for "an exclusive" rap session with the former Detroit Tiger prior to McLaln's sentencing In federal court for racketeering and drug smuggling. The material was edited into a half-hour documentary, "Denny McLain: Portrait of an American Dream," which aired on Channel 6 two weeks ago. It isn't likely to be aired again, but Luck is still trying to explain the ethics of what he did. He says it wasn't a case of checkbook journalism.

Others In the business aren't so sure. Checkbook journalism paying for news Interviews is still considered an unsavory practice among journalists. News of Luck's recent deal with McLain has raised asked him if he could use some money and what It would take. We mutually agreed on the deal," Luck said. Luck said he was pleased with the results.

"We got his life story and some material and insights which I hadn't seen anywhere else in print or in other telecasts but now other reporters are saying that It wasn't right Hey, I'm not the first Journalist in America to pay. NBC, CBS and ABC in the past have had to pay subjects of TV specials." McLaln's attorney, Arnold Levin, said that McLain wasn't going around trying to sell his story for a fee. He added that during the trial and post-trial period, CBS' "Night-watch" program had offered to fly him and McLain and their families to Washington for live interviews on the late-night program. "They would have covered all our expenses Including meals, hotels and airfare. This could have been $2,000 or more and it's just part of See McLAIN, Page 2D McLain risk of subtle distortions," 8 News Director George said.

after you've paid that money, you've got to run It regardless of what you've got on tape. giving the source a chance to her version of a story in a.