Be Happy or Be Normal?
In order to be happy, have you spent your life resisting social pressures to be normal? Has anyone said to you, “Why can’t you be
Helen Maupin November 13, 2018
In order to be happy, have you spent your life resisting social pressures to be normal? Has anyone said to you, “Why can’t you be
Whether your entrepreneurial spirit is showing up as an artist, a yoga teacher, a widget producer or an organization designer, most seemingly solo enterprise owners would agree that we can no longer “go it alone.” The complexity of business and the speed at which change is occurring require us to partner with those who have the information and skills we lack. Collaboration has become, without a doubt, the new normal when it comes to inventing and coordinating work. Of the four major projects I am currently working on, all are collaborations that involve anywhere from two to seven contributors.
Assimilating the interconnected, volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous—iVUCA—demands of our current socio-economic environment can trigger considerable stress in our work and workplaces. The upside of
In a recent conference call with employees from the United Food Workers (UFW) Union, I shared two case studies of STS (socio-technical systems) designing in
In 1990, Peter Senge wrote a seminal article on leadership and what it takes to build an organization capable of continuous learning. Those of us
For the purposes of improvement and/or innovation, organizations redesign their strategies, structures, systems and processes. Over the past 25 years of collaborating with organizations to
Let’s face it, the evidence is in on happiness. Joy is our only job. In his 2010 Youtube video, Daniel Pink disclaimed money as the
In celebration of Labour Day, Deri Latimer and I put the finishing touches on our latest creative collaboration — how to design happy, healthy and humane
(Co-authors: Doug Austrom, Don de Guerre, Bob Laliberte, Bernard Mohr and Carolyn Ordowich) STS-RT Discovery Process Action research has been the foundation of Socio-technical Systems
It’s time to come together? It’s up to you, what’s your pleasure Everyone around the world? Come on! Celebration by Kool & The Gang
Although governance is not a new term when we consider corporate, political, economic and development models, it appears to wear different masks in different arenas.
In my previous blogs on emerging organization design for the 21st century, Part I and Part II, I shared the output from several years of
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