Category: Books
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My 10 Year Summary: What I Have Learned
Contents 1. Introduction2. Background3. My Journey 3.1. The initial years (2012–2015) 3.2. The middle years (2016–2018) 3.3. The final years (2019–2022)4. Conclusions5. Afterword6. Acknowledgments7. Recommended Books 1. Introduction I started blogging ten years ago today (Sept 26, 2012). At the same time, I started searching for life-giving ways of working. This is a summary of my journey and…
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Book Review: Gentle Action
Introduction Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World by F. David Peat is a book about moving from policies, plans and imposed solutions to more intelligent and harmonious action that evolves out of the context itself.1 This involves creative suspension of action, with the aim of developing a clearer perception of the situation,…
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Free Play
I have read “Spela fritt” by Stephen Nachmanovitch, which is a Swedish translation of Nachmanovitch’s book “Free Play“, and was reminded what is lost in translation. Even the book’s title, “Spela fritt”, is lost in translation. Play can be translated with spel or lek. So, the title could have been “Leka fritt”, or “Fri Lek”.…
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Selfless service
I have read Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity by August Turak. There are some gold nuggets in this book, but I don’t have the same enthusiasm for monastic life as the author. Selfless service driven by love is one thing. It’s another if it is based on…
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Book Review: LSD and the Mind of the Universe
LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven by Christopher Bache is a book which has two titles. The outer title, LSD and the Mind of the Universe, describes what the book is about. The inner title, Diamonds from Heaven, refers to the “Diamond Light” at “the center of the mind of the…
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Bokrecension: Du stolta, du fria
Du stolta, du fria: Om svenskarna, Sverigebilden och folkhälsopatriotismen av Gina Gustavsson är en bok om det Sverige som blottades när coronapandemin svepte över landet. Gina Gustavsson är docent i statskunskap vid Uppsala universitet och fristående kolumnist i Dagens Nyheter. Detta är en recension av Gina Gustavssons bok. Låt mig klargöra redan från början att…
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Retrospective 2021-52
This is a summary of my reading during 2021. Particularly interesting books/authors are marked in bold/bold. I read the following books (latest read, listed first): Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change by Adam Kahane Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together by Adam Kahane Initiating and…
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Retrospective 2021-03–13
This is a summary of my reading during the first quarter 2021 (weeks 3–13). There are two list below: The first list consists of books, articles, and letters that I have read (more or less in the order read). The second list are notes I made while reading (in chronological order). A collection of robert…
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My story
In one of our conversations, Skye Hirst said: —I think there is an outline that I am hearing from you that I would like you to hear. Write this down… “My journey started as a little boy in Africa. I liked to draw. I loved to be in the forest with the trees. I have…
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Retrospective 2020-31
This is a summary of my reading during the week. Books I have read Wholeness in Science by Guus van der Bie. The author attempts to develop Goethe’s method in his interest in a humanization of medicine. Similarly, I think it’s possible to develop Goethe’s method in the interest of humanizing work. Traditional management, which…