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 inquiry and action research conducted by the Socio-Technical Systems Roundtable (STS-RT) Discovery and Integration Teams. …
One of my greatest challenges in living fully present is to stand confidently in the stillness of emergence. You know that place . . . where nothing seems to be happening . . . where it feels as though nothing…
Last week in Part I, I briefly specified three organizational forms of Adaptive Enterprises that we are seeing in today’s world of work – 1) Hierarchically-integrated, Decentralized Organizations 2) Value Realization Networks 3) Social Eco-systems The images (transformation process models)…
When the fruit is ripe, it drops from the tree by itself. . . . [I]t falls—not because it has been forced to fall, or has made the effort to jump, but because the tree has recognized its ripeness and…
If you have been following previous blogs, you will recall me mentioning an STS-RT (Socio-Technical Systems Roundtable) research and discovery process in which I am involved. The journey my colleagues and I ventured into was to understand and document changing…
Recently, I worked with my local urban transit corporation to transform their command and control culture. Why? The internal relationships between management and bus operators brought them to the edge of strike action. Resentment in the workplace had become so…
People who know themselves have the power and magnetism of confidence. This charisma draws others seeking self-knowing. Why? Because an enlightened person cannot be enslaved or imprisoned. The enlightened [person] is the greatest stranger in the world; [s]he does…
In its simplest definition, Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the capacity of being socially and self-aware. The theory states the more able we are to understand and manage our emotions as well as understand those of others, not only do we…
Today, I am grateful to say ping-ponging between sadness and elation is a thing of the past. This doesn’t mean I no longer feel sadness nor joy—rather I don’t slide from one extreme to the other nor do I need…
“I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going through a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is…
Life always reveals to me exactly what I need to know. Gratefully the shadow side of Self, which inhibits growth, is constantly forced to die. In essence, these death cycles mark a necessary ending of beliefs and behaviours that…
Every week, I gather together a circle of meditators and writers for the purposes of personal transformation and creative expression. Each person chooses an inspirational image (something that speaks to them). We then meditate to connect to our creative voice,…
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