Balance is the SPICE of Life
The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it. After a 3-week hiatus from blogging, I am grateful to say, “I’m back.” I needed the first two weeks off in order to ‘separate’ from the past 12…
We Are All One
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi In spite of our diversity and uniqueness, at this time of year…
Living in the New Normal: There’s a T-shirt for That
My Socio-technical Systems (STS) writing co-horts and I loosely refer to the current global economic and social environment as the “new normal” — a term we did not invent but are seeing used to define conditions in diverse contexts. As…
Discovery & Design: The Personal is the Universal
(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 theory and practice since the 1950s work of Trist and Emery in the British coal…
Creating Through Intuition
I feel very blessed today — fatigued but blessed. I returned home from several days of creative collaboration with six cherished friends. We did not start out this way. In fact, we learned to grow our trust and respect with…
Occupying Wall Street: Reinventing Democracy
In the 1960s, Stephen Stills of Buffalo Springfield wrote the following lyrics as both a testament and protest to the current events of that era. There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a…
Celebration Time – Come On!
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 Celebration of Life by Deepaz http://bit.ly/rMDr5B Today, I celebrate two special events — 1 year…
Governance Frameworks – 1.0 versus 2.0
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. Whatis.com defines corporate governance as the rules, processes or laws by which businesses are operated,…
Who Runs Your Show — Personality or Spirituality?
Most of us are taught to believe we are human beings when in actuality we are spirits being human. Our human aspect is a temporary experience, which allows us to know the physical world and ourselves within it. Our true…
Social Responsibility: How Do You Build Community?
As futurists predicted, corporate social responsibility programs are growing faster than economic recovery. Most participating enterprises are seizing this opportunity to enhance their competitive advantage in the market place by flexing their charitable muscles. With savvy consumers basing buying…
Seeking Fulfillment? Choose Joy
For several months I have been meditating on letting go of desire and ambition. Why you might ask? Because desire and ambition surface from perceptions of need, and neediness is not how I intend to be in the world. When…
Joy Is An Inside Job
In today’s working world, we hear a lot about personal and organizational transformation often without fully comprehending how much transformation is already embedded within the work we now do. When I began my coaching practice in the early 90s, the…