Category: Books
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Organizational metamorphosis
Goethe’s Way of Science makes it possible to see the continuous form and metamorphosis of the growing plant. What I’m wondering about is whether organizations are like plants? If so, this has profound implications on how we see and think about organizations. Henri Bortoft writes in The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe’s Way of Science (page…
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Naturens helhet
Jag har börjat läsa The Wholeness of Nature – Goethe’s Way of Science av Henri Bortoft. Poängen är att det finns olika typer av medvetande. I vår teknisk-vetenskapliga kultur har vi traditionellt fokuserat på det analytiska medvetandet som naturligt fokuserar på distinktion och separation. Det analytiska medvetandet associeras med språket. Språket uppbygnad grammatiskt i subjekt-predikat…
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Visual facilitation
The Graphic Facilitator’s Guide: How to use your listening, thinking and drawing skills to make meaning by Brandy Agerbeck is about serving a group of people by making the conversation visual. This helps the group to become more focused and attentive, which in turn helps the group to create shared meaning and understanding. It’s a…
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Book Review: Daring greatly
Daring greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead is Brené Brown’s latest book. Brené explores what drives our fear of being vulnerable, how we are protecting ourselves from vulnerability, and – most importantly – how we can engage with vulnerability so that we can live our lives…
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Let’s take self-organization seriously
We are in the middle of December and the days are short up here in the northern part of Europe, but it’s not only a dark time of the year. I have recently encountered musings about the darkness in the world in the books I have read. Margaret Wheatley writes for example in her new…
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So far from home – An invitation to warriorship for the human spirit
I am reading Margaret Wheatley’s new book So Far from Home: Lost and Found in Our Brave New World. I have now reached Chapter 11, Controlling Complexity, which according to Margaret herself was the most difficult one to write because I as a reader might find it too dark to read. And it is really…
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Wholehearted living
Brené Brown has defined 10 Guideposts for Wholehearted Living. These guidesposts are to cultivate: Authenticity: Letting go of what people think Self-Compassion: Letting go of perfectionism A Resilient Spirit: Letting go of numbing and powerlessness Gratitude and Joy: Letting go of scarcity and fear of the dark Intuition and Trusting Faith: Letting go of the…
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Emergence and self-organization
Life’s fundamental processes are emergence and self-organization. The following quotes are from So Far from Home: Lost and Found in Our Brave New World by Margaret Wheatley: “Life gives us a world of order for free, capable of organizing itself, not from oppressive control but from inner coherence.” “What matters is now: how we live, work…
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So far from home
I received Margaret Wheatley’s new book So Far from Home: Lost and Found in Our Brave New World yesterday. I immediately realized that this is a book which will touch me deeply. As Margaret says, “… strong responses require time and reflection.”
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“Theory U” på svenska
Jag läser boken Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges av Otto Scharmer. Även om jag förstår engelskan jag läser så tillkommer en ny dimension av förståelse (förstår jag verkligen?) när jag försöker uttrycka bokens innehåll på svenska. U-teorin för in nya perspektiv på ledarskap, lärande och förändring. Här är exempel på frågor…