Roosevelt Finlayson (of the Festival in the Workplace) called me from the Bahamas yesterday to catch up. During our talk we discussed my future plans (among many other things) and he challenged me to document the process I'm currently going through. That's a great idea and what better place to do it than right … Continue Reading ››
At the WorldBlu forum I had the pleasure of talking to Stephen Shapiro who just finished writing a book on goal-free living which is coming out in january 2006.
As soon as Stephen mentioned "goal-free living" a flash-bulb went of in my mind, and I knew what he meant. I also knew … Continue Reading ››
Already-thereness is the idea, that whatever you're trying to achieve, you are in some measure already there. The advantage of this approach is that it allows you to build on strengths and successes, rather than on failings and shortcomings. Appreciative Inquiry works very much in this spirit. Here's a cool quote on already-thereness, ripped from … Continue Reading ››
Sometimes "you really should do X" but you don't. Here's some excellent advice from AmbivaBlog for all of us procrastinators:
According to "archetypal psychologist" James Hillman, who at some point dissolved my own suicidal feelings of frustration and failure into laughter, procrastination is a "disease" only from the point of view of the heroic … Continue Reading ››
Clay Shirky talks about folksonomies (community generated taxonomies) and then comes up with this BRILLIANT quote, which can be applied to just about any area:
We need a word for the class of comparisons that assumes that the status quo is cost-free, so that all new work, when it can be shown to have … Continue Reading ››
Here's an idea for future elections - in America or anywhere else:
What if you as a candidate went out and fully acknowledged the voters' right to vote for the other guy? If you could campaign in a way that was fully appreciative of the results achieved by your opponent(s)? What if you refrained … Continue Reading ››
I'm currently reading "The spirit of leadership" by Harrison Owen and it has something to say on the difference between management and leadership: [Managers] control the system, whatever that system might be. And the operative word is control. A good manager makes the plan, manages to the plan, and meets the plan. The details are … Continue Reading ››
I'm currently putting together a two-hour session on change. One of the hot topics in management today is change management, and I would argue that you can't manage change if you don't understand change. So I'm looking at change from a lot of different angles right now: Science, philosophy, common sense, psychology, biology etc... Continue Reading ››