Category: Books
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Book Review: Everything Is Workable
Everything Is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution by Diane Musho Hamilton is, as the subtitle says, a book on conflict resolution combined with meditation practice. Diane Musho Hamilton is an experienced mediator and meditator, and has much experience to share. Here is a summary of the book together with some conclusions. Conflict Conflict…
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Book Review: The Systems View of Life
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi is an interdisciplinary book which presents ”a unified systemic vision that includes and integrates life’s” different dimensions (p.xii). All living systems are ”highly nonlinear” networks where there are ”countless interconnections” (p.xii). Here is a summary of the book together with…
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Free flow of meaning
This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. Introduction Arleta Griffor has written two essays in The Search for Meaning, which is a book edited by Paavo Pylkkänen. Griffor writes about the self-organizing nature of the implicate order and how to deal with misinformation, among other things. This…
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Meaning as being
This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. Introduction Arleta Griffor has written two essays in The Search for Meaning, which is a book edited by Paavo Pylkkänen. Griffor writes about the self-organizing nature of the implicate order and how to deal with misinformation, among other things. This…
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Book Review: Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order
Paavo Pylkkänen’s aim with Mind, Matter and the Implicate Order is to explore David Bohm’s ideas on mind, matter, time, and conscious experience.1 Pylkkänen was a collaborator with Bohm and has for many years had the intuition that quantum theory is relevant to the understanding of consciousness.2 This has led him to more carefully consider…
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The meaning of meaning
The Search for Meaning by Pylkkänen (editor) This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to explore David Bohm’s notion of meaning in The Search for Meaning by Paavo Pylkkänen (editor).1 The power of meaning is that it completely organizes being.2 Meaning…
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Book Review: Thrivability
Thrivability by Jean M. Russell is a book which “pulls us to work (and play) together in ways generate new possibilities.” Thrivability is “the ability for you and me to thrive, for what is around us to thrive, and for thriving to be the sum of all we do” (p. 2). Thrivability emerges from “holding…
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Book Review: A Process Theory of Organization
A Process Theory of Organization by Tor Hernes makes an attempt to connect the fluidity of day-to-day organizational life with its structures. What Hernes mean with organizational life is “the ongoing process of making, remaking, unmaking and relating of organizational actors of all sorts … into meaningful wholes.” A meaningful whole can be “a Twitter…
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Book recommendations
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. These are book recommendations which I have received as feedback on my posts: Science, Order, and Creativity by David Bohm and F. David Peat. The series of posts on organizing “between and beyond” is inspired by David Bohm’s and…
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Analysis of Integral Management
This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to explore the history and key assumptions of Integral Management, which is an alternative management model developed by Lasse Ramquist and Mats Eriksson. The analysis is summarized here. Background My first encounter with Integral…