Category: Books
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Retrospective 2020-02
This is a summary of last week’s reading. I’ve mentioned previously that I feel a need to wrap-up my series of posts on deeper generative organizing. One way of saying it is that: “There is no formula, except this is a formula.”1 As soon as we rely on formulas, procedures, and defined processes, we become…
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Retrospective 2020-01
This is a retrospective of my reading last year. Introduction Looking back, I realize that I read less than half of what I used to read. I also realize that I published very few book reviews (see end of post). The reason is that I started painting and love it! Below are lists of the…
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Retrospective 2019-46
This is a summary of my reading and painting this week. Book The Philosopher’s Stone: Chaos, Synchronicity and the Hidden Order of the World by F. David Peat arrived this week. I have started reading the book and will come back with a review. Peat is one of my favorite authors. My series of posts…
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Posts on David Bohm
David Bohm is one of the most interesting thinkers that I’ve encountered during all years of reading. Here’s an overview of posts where I mention David Bohm in one way or another: 2018 Organizing retrospective 126 — A retrospective of 2018. Book Review: The Supreme Art of Dialogue by Anthony Blake Book Review: Mind and…
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Maverick & Sociocracy
I have recently read Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler, which is an international bestseller from 1993. While reading, I was struck by the similarities and differences between how Ricardo Semler runs Semco and The Sociocratic Circle-Organization Method, which was developed by Gerard Endenburg. Family businesses The first…
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Book Review: Maverick
Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World’s Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler is an international bestseller which was first published in 1993. This is a review of the edition from 1999. Ricardo Semler writes in the new introduction that Maverick is “a reminder that age-old truths about human nature, respect and integrity can be…
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Retrospective 2019-26
This is a look back at my reading and painting during the week, including some reflections. Reflections I made the following notes to myself this month: Life is self-creating in a dynamically alive universe. Generative organizing is autopoietic. Allopoietic operating principles are “poisonous” for living systems. Organizing between and beyond is about moving beyond the…
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Retrospective 2019-25
This is a look back at my reading and painting during the week. Reading This week I started reading Mae-Wan Ho’s The Rainbow and The Worm and Living Rainbow H2O. Mae-Wan Ho takes the reader on a fascinating voyage of discovery through the physics of organisms, which explains why water is so remarkably fit for…
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Retrospective 2019-24
This is a look back at my reading and painting during the week. Reading I finished reading Safeguarding Our Common Future by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic this week. Ingrid Leman Stefanovic argues that our environmental actions will change only when we see our world in a different way. Our basic beliefs and value systems frame the…
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Retrospective 2019-23
This is a look back at my reading and painting during the week. Reading This week I’ve read Energies (1964), How We Do Things (1974), Transformation (1974), Intimations (1975), Creative Thinking (1989), and Way To Be Free (2006) by John G. Bennett. John G. Bennett always returned to the idea that there are more inward…