Uncertainty’s Landing
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…
Emerging Organization Designs – Part II: Models of Functioning
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)…
A Time for Sharing
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…
Emerging Organization Designs – Part I: Models of Form
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…
Culture Change: Keep your Values, Change your Ideals
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…
Ideal or Shadow: Which Rebel are You?
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…
Organizational Change is Personal Change
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…
Wide Awake or Asleep? It’s Your Choice
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…
Transformation’s Hurdles: Judgment, Depression and Fear
“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…
Relax – Release – Receive, then Act!
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…
Creative Collaboration: Feeding the Soul
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,…
Trust: Who or What?
First comes inspiration, a vision of possibility, then follows action. I have been married to this practice since I dreamt about it in 1998—inspiration » internalization » integration—the transformation process. Of course, inspiration seems easiest and most enjoyable. Living through…