In celebration of Labour Day, Deri Latimer and I put the finishing touches on our latest creative collaboration — how to design happy, healthy and humane work systems, organizations and ‘communities of organizations’ (next week’s blog post). The image to the…
In two recent conversations with social entrepreneurs (of which I include myself) we lamented the challenge of doing business in an economic environment where surviving is yet to be balanced with thriving. The survival game amounts to business entrepreneurs manipulating…
wiangya / FreeDigitalPhotos.net What do you see as the greatest source of uncertainty in today’s world? Certainly, driving forces such as digitization, globalization and individuation top most lists as contributors to increased volatility and complexity. However, at the root of…
Whether you are on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Bebo, Qzone or any of the hundred other social networks, the boundaries between our personal and professional lives are blurring. The ability to meet core human developmental needs such as connecting, collaborating and…
In a 25-year organizational consulting career, most of my time has been spent supporting enterprises to move from leader-managed teams to self-managing teams. The main reasons for this evolution revolve around profitability, productivity (improvement and innovation) and quality of working…
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. [.…
Several years ago, I began a consulting journey integrating IT systems with social and business systems. I could see the “writing on the wall.” As participants in today’s economy, the majority of us are knowledge workers. In essence, we…
In today’s work world, increased productivity and profit are positively correlated to the ability to collaborate with one’s co-workers. Winnipeg Transit and its operators’ Amalgamated Transit Union demonstrated both as outlined in From Enraged to Engaged – Connecting Through Collaboration. …
This Joy Blog marks the beginning of my new way of being in the world. Throughout my life, writing has led me deeper into awareness and understanding, but always under the cloak of a more solitary intimacy. However over the…
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