Category: Culture
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Retrospective 2024-02
This is a retrospective of week 2 2024 (2024-01-08–2024-01-14). Here is the retrospective of the previous week. I’m currently reading the following books: I’ve started reading: Notes:1. See Attention as a moral Act: Iain McGilchrist and Jonathan Rowson in Conversation, YouTube, https://youtu.be/YHUGuUhB1c4. Accessed: 2024-01-14. Published: 2023-03-06.2. David Ellerman makes principled arguments against the rental of…
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Retrospective 2024-01
This is a retrospective of the first week 2024 (2024-01-01–2024-01-07). I will write in both English and Swedish because I write for myself. Newborn thoughts are easier to express in my native language (Swedish). However, most of what I read is in English and then I will stick to English. For the most part, I…
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Governance in harmony with Life
Alfred Huang describes an ancient culture seeking harmony with Life, governance without coercion, in Understanding the I Ching. What they knew 3000 years ago, we need to relearn today. My emphasis in italics. The I Ching reveals an ancient culture that honors Heaven, esteems the Earth and expresses love for the people. It espouses a…
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It does not have to be this way!
CNBC reported Oct 31, 2022, that Elon Musk has pulled 50 Tesla employees into his Twitter takeover. Tesla employees have been involved in code reviews even though their skills do not overlap with the programming languages and systems Twitter uses. Tesla engineers don’t have experience in designing and operating platforms that are broadly accessible to…
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There is another way
Here’s an excerpt (my emphasis in bold) from Russel Means’s most famous speech in 1980.1 There’s something deeper than just a rejection of Marxism from this radical. He has an entirely different worldview compared to all “isms”: “… Newton … “revolutionized” physics and the so-called natural sciences … Descartes did the same thing with culture.…
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The toxic handler
Peter J. Frost and Sandra Robinson presents their research on The Toxic Handler: Organizational Hero—and Casualty in the July–August 1999 issue of the Harvard Business Review. They write that: “Toxic handlers voluntarily shoulder the sadness and the anger that are endemic to organizational life.” Toxic handlers alleviate organizational pain in five ways: “They listen empathetically.“…
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Integral Management
Integral Management is a management model which addresses the question: “What does it take to have everyone in a company wholeheartedly join forces and take on challenges that, to most companies, would seem quite impossible?” The model has grown organically for more than 25 years. It’s based on a learning dialog involving tens of thousands…
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Lasse Berg om san-folkens egalitära kultur
I sin bok Gryning över Kalahari: hur människan blev människa skriver Lasse Berg om san-folken och deras kultur (min betoning i fetstil): Hos san-folken råder en strängt egalitär kultur. 1 Samförstånd är det som gäller i alla san-grupper. … Men på samma sätt som jämlikhet inte betyder likhet, så kan samförstånd inte likställas med demokrati.…
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Managing without soul
Henry Mintzberg writes about the epidemic of managing without soul … “Managing without soul has become an epidemic in society: managers who specialize in killing cultures, at the expense of human engagement.” “I’ve been in the business of studying organizations for so long that I can often walk into a place and sense soul, or…
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Ett exempel på värdegrund
För några år sedan hörde jag en föreläsning av Nirvan Richter, grundare av Norrgavel. Föredraget handlade dels om hantverket i möbelsnickeri, dels om Norrgavels värdegrund. Nirvan Richter är en färgstark person med starka värderingar. Norrgavels värdegrund är tredelad och har ett humanistiskt, ett ekologiskt och ett existensiellt perspektiv: Humanistisk – om människan: Ambitionen är alltid…