I am freshly home from the Organization Design Forum held in Atlanta, Georgia, where my colleagues and I presented some of our ‘discoveries’ on the changing nature of organizational design in today’s New Normal business environment. As Socio-technical systems (STS)…
In today’s rapidly changing iVUCA (interconnected, volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world, the art of building relationships in order to co-exist in community is fundamental for both surviving and thriving. Global agreement, in principle, supports “the quantity and quality of…
This is what I know about love. That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One either chooses to care more or to care less. Helen Humphreys, The Lost Garden So what does love have…
This is my last week for sharing some of the substance from my soon-to-be-published book, Creating Space: The Practice of Transformation, Vol. 1. In the final chapter of this first volume, the focus on emotional awareness completes the circle of…
Just as our global society appears to be coming together through shifting values and social paradigms so it appears to be coming apart at the seams with crumbling social institutions — government, education, healthcare, etc. Such duality of experience is…
The phrase “mind over matter” reminds me of my first year university English Literature class. My 1972 hip and eccentric professor themed the year’s readings around R. D. Laing’s The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness (1960). …
In the early 80s, the marketing slogan “no pain, no gain” became the motto for exercising the body’s muscles to the point of fatigue where one would “feel the burn” in order to maximize athletic excellence. Although popularized by Jane…
The prospect of e-publishing my latest and longest developing book, Creating Space – The Practice of Transformation, Volume 1, is close at hand. March is my month to tidy up all the loose ends keeping me from this goal. Because…
(Co-authored by: Doug Austrom, Don de Guerre, Bob Laliberte, Bernard Mohr and Carolyn Ordowich) Last weekend I pondered a question my colleagues (Socio-Technical Systems Roundtable) and I are considering as we document our community’s action research discovery process. How do…
The recent media attention garnered by Apple’s lack of social purpose and action has raised three questions for me. • When is enough money, enough? • When is the incongruence between our values and our actions enough for us to…
In last week’s blog, I commented on the rightness and restfulness of finding the middle ground between extreme choices. Because this balancing act is being played out presently in my own life as survival and thriving, I am sharing something…
The posture of yoga is steady and easy. It is realized by relaxing one’s effort and resting like the cosmic serpent on the waters of infinity. Then one is unconstrained by opposing dualities. Barbara Stoler Miller Until I began to…
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