Category: Decisions

  • Neil Turok on Life

    The following quote is from Brian Keating‘s interview with Neil Turok on October 2, 2022: I think, and it may sound strange from a physicist, but I think the most fascinating thing in the universe is Life, and how it’s organized… What is the law that governs life, that tells you that life will emerge?…

  • Amy Mindell on Metaskills

    Amy Mindell explores the ways therapists express their attitudes and beliefs about life in her book Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy. These attitutes permeate and shape the therapist’s techniques. The therapist’s values are expressed in the interactions with the client. Amy Mindell has seen many therapists “in action”, how their theoretical ideas and techniques…

  • Two experiments in collective decision-making

    Introduction I’m interested in how to tap into the collective intelligence of a group, for example, in decision-making. Two weeks in a row I’ve facilitated two different workshops which had the specific aim to make decisions in two separate but related areas. In both cases the needed decisions were long overdue. In one case, with…

  • Retrospektiv 2019-09

    Detta är en återblick på veckan. Jag har börjat skriva lite dag för dag, för hand. Mänskliga arbetsförhållanden är inte en självklarhetUnder veckan såg jag en dokumentär om industriell djupuppfödning. Den visade vad som händer när det enda fokuset ligger på ‘effektiv’ uppfödning. Jag tänker att dessa exempel kan överföras till våra arbetsplatser. Ett exempel…

  • Skye Hirst on decision-making

    IntroductionSkye Hirst is one of the interesting persons I have encountered during my search for more life-affirming ways of working together. Skye Hirst writes, for example, in her article on Value Intelligence in All Creative Organisms that it is an inalienable right to be free to act according to one’s own beinghood. Decision-making is coming…

  • Organizing reflection 25

    This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to reflect on subjects occupying my mind. I make no claim to fully believe what I write. Neither do I pretend that others have not already thought or written about the same subject.…

  • Organizing reflection 18

    This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to reflect on subjects occupying my mind. I make no claim to fully believe what I write. Neither do I pretend that others have not already thought or written about the same subject.…

  • Organizing reflection 17

    This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to reflect on subjects occupying my mind. I make no claim to fully believe what I write. Neither do I pretend that others have not already thought or written about the same subject.…

  • Experiences from the Nordic Friends Yearly Meeting 2017

    Introduction The purpose of this post is to share some of my experiences from the Nordic Friends Yearly Meeting (June 29—July 2), which was held at Nordiska Folkhögskolan, Kungälv, Sweden. Background I’m very interested in the Quakers method of making collective decisions and have written about it here and here (in Swedish). Here is my review…

  • Quaker decision-making in a secular context

    The following quote (in italics) is an example of collective decision-making in a former Soviet country after the fall of the Soviet Union: “… I [Leonard Joy] was charged to support a team created to manage a process for the redesign of the public sector. … I chose to act as would a clerk in a…