Over the past five years, my colleagues and I at Socio-technical Systems Roundtable (STS-RT) explored, dialogued and prototyped our way towards a new model for designing and developing organizations — the Adaptive Enterprise. This body of international educators, managers, unionists…
In my early 20s, my boyfriend, an English major, wrote a poem about me. In its intimacy, it was both beautiful and frightening at the same time. While he read it to me, I remember simultaneously thinking, “OMG, he can…
In past blogs I talked about the need for organizations operating in today’s complex economy to maximize their efficiency while simultaneously exploring new opportunities and inventing new possibilities. This massive juggling act for organizational leaders demands these two streams of…
I am struck by the hopefulness and personal transformation of Middle Easterners undergoing significant social change. Along with the rest of the world, they recognize they are in the honey-moon stage of change. As my yoga teacher says, “first it…
While the term ‘generation gap’ often engenders negative relations between age groups, I propose a more constructive way of utilizing each group’s specialized skills. A generation gap is defined as a difference in values and attitudes between one generation and…
This week a dear friend of mine told me it was time for her ‘to dream big’. Her words reminded me this is the life journey we all share, as reflected in a poem I wrote some years back.…
As someone who is not trained in the physical sciences, I struggled with what name to give this very important trend. Should I call it an environment or ecology continuum? When I looked at the two sets of definitions below…
http://mtviewclass.wikispaces.com/Gilgamesh On the eve of 2012 — the infamous year dating the end of the Mayan calendar — we are witness to the beginnings of social transformation in The Middle East. I wonder how the Mayan prophecy and these Middle…
Karl Marx espoused that socio-economic systems such as capitalism and democracy produce internal conflicts due to power differences (class struggles) which eventually lead to their implosion. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. [.…
Today we can no longer just tweak old skill sets and behaviours to optimize our performance because the challenges presented to us are of a new character. Furthermore, reframing our assumptions and beliefs systems, although additive, is not going to…
Yesterday, rifling through some past musings, I came upon a piece I wrote in 2003. Its “dual” theme of form and formlessness is what many attribute to be the ultimate paradox in life. Given my blog focus over the past…
In 2000, Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson introduced us to three distinct cultures co-existing in the U.S. and Western Europe whose distinctions were based on values. The “Moderns” who value money and success tipped in at 50% of the population. …
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