Margaret Wheatley has written another beautiful book, and this time the topic is conversation. Meg (as she’s known) believes strongly in the power of conversation and dialogue to bring people together and to promote individual and shared development.
She starts the book by explaining her reasons for writing it, and by explaining her view on conversation.
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To my great surprise, Tom Lehrer is still alive – he just hasn’t made any records for 35 years. For those not in the know, Tom Lehrer is a mathematician who became a very popular satirist and singer in the 60’s. His humour was sharp and dry, and his tunes were catchy. His academic background often showed, for instance in his elements song, which is simply all the elements set to music.
After making a few records he returned to academia, as you can read in this interview (via bound.dk). Random Tom Lehrer quote:
I do have a cause though: Obscenity. (pause) I’m for it.
For anyone interested in improving work, here’s a few relevant categories from the Google directory:
Coworker relations
Job burnout
Rethinking work
Workplace spirituality
Hans Henrik H?jberg is asking people to write 100 things about themselves, and submit it to him. So I did, and here it is, in danish.
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This book by Margaret Wheatley is without a doubt the most beautiful and unconventional business-related book I’ve ever read. It conveys it’s message not only through prose, but also in poems and photographs.
And the message itself is simple and beautiful, namely that:
There is a simpler way to organize human endeavour. It requires a new way of being in the world. It requires being in the world without fear. Being in the world with play and creativity. Seeking after what’s possible. Being willing to learn and to be surprised.
So what is this simpler way?
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My name is Alexander, and I’m a TV-addict. Not a hard-core addict, I just have very little will power when it comes to resisting TV.
If I have a TV, I’ll typically watch 2-3 hours a day on weekdays and more in the weekends. The amount of time I spend in front of the TV is totally unrelated to the quality of the programs. If I can’t find one good program, I’ll zap between 5 bad ones.
The solution is simple: Loose the TV, and so we did. On january 2nd, my girlfriend and I packed away our TV, and it’s been sitting in the basement ever since. What follows is a report from our lives after two months without a TV.
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I became a roller coaster fanatic a couple of years back on a trip to Florida. Before that, I’d been too scared to get on anything but pretty small coasters, but after having tried the wildest that they have to offer, I’m now a pro.
Now, we don’t have big roller coasters in Denmark, so until the next trip I’ll have to enjoy them by proxy. A good site for that is the Roller Coaster DataBase which is to roller coasters what imdb is to movies. Pretty much every roller coaster in the world is listed with stats and pictures.
For roller coaster reviews, my favourite is thrillride.com. There aren’t that many review, but they’re very well written – almost like being there yourself. Now: Who wants to go to California and try this one.
“Inner Skiing” is an excellent account of how learning occurs, but this time it’s not at work, it’s out on the ski slopes.
As every skier knows, skiing can be a wonderful experience, when you’re in flow, your skis obey your every command and you zoom down the mountainside. And every skier knows the flip side: When your skis won’t do anything you ask them to, every other skier on the mountain seems to deliberately get in your way, and you spend more time falling than skiing.
What determines the experience you will get? How do you you move from one to the other?
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