Organizational Effectiveness
Trauma of layoffs on survivors?
This is a my response to the question posed on a LinkedIn OD Network Discussion: Is anyone working on helping organizations deal with the trauma of layoffs on survivors?
As in many situations, what a manager does in the normal course of their job has a significant impact on their employees. I was a leader of [...]
Knowledge Harvesting? Why?
“We always know more than we can say, and we willalways say more than we can write down.” David Snowden
Indigenous Ways of Knowing – Language of Spirit Conference
I cannot even begin to describe the depth of this conference. I will forever be processing what I am feeling, hearing, observing, saying. It is the first time I have listened to a 3 day Dialogue. And this is dialogue from the Native American and David Bohmian perspective. The members of the Inner Circle Dialogue [...]
What do you need to be creative?
Creativity is required in our day-to-day jobs. As a leader, understanding what each employee needs to be their most creative is extremely important. Especially when you are trying to create new products or services through the knowledge of your employees. It is very important to create the “field” within which employees can be their most [...]
Do we really want balance in life?
“Equilibrium is neither the goal nor the fate of living systems, simply because as open systems they are partners with their environment. The study of these systems, begun with Prigogine’s prize-winning work (1980), has shown that open systems have the possibility of continuously importing free energy from the environment and of exporting entropy. They don’t [...]