Category: Life
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#jagdelar
#jagdelar är Dagens Nyheters manifestation för allas lika värde. Uppropet får mig att tänka på Robert Hartman, som flydde Nazi-Tyskland i sin opposition mot Hitler. Hartman ägnade sitt liv åt frågorna “vad är gott?” och “hur organisera det goda?“. Han kom fram till att det är allas problem att organisera det goda. Hans slutsats är…
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A vision for the future
We can either… Allow humans to become harnessed…so they become just more effective… Or Re-assess our world view and work…towards human needs. —Charles Tolman1 Note 1 Charles Tolman, ACCU 2013 Exploration of Phenomenology of Software Development, p. 19.
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Book Review: First Steps to Seeing
First Steps to Seeing: A Path Towards Living Attentively is Emma Kidd’s first book. Emma Kidd “left the fashion industry to investigate alternative ways of thinking about and doing business” (p. 11). What she didn’t expect was that her explorations would take her right back to the very foundation for her previous work as designer…
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Preview: The Age of Thrivability
Here is a preview of Michelle Holliday’s forthcoming book The Age of Thrivability. Michelle Holliday’s work centers around “thrivability” and a view of organizations as living systems. She brings people together and helps them discover ways they can serve life more powerfully through their work. What if we made it our primary intention to enable…
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Book Review: Freedom to Live
Freedom to Live: The Robert Hartman Story is an autobiography which was originally written for a series of seminars given by Robert Hartman to top executives who wanted to develop more sensitivity to human values. Hartman’s writing and life experiences are very interesting and engaging. He was born in Germany in 1910. Seeing the Nazis…
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Quantum Jazz
Mae-Wan Ho writes in her article Quantum Jazz, The Tao of Biology that we are all quantum jazz players, dancing life into being. We are creating and recreating ourselves afresh with each passing moment. There is an incredible hive of activities from the very fast to the very slow, the local to global, all perfectly coupled…
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Machines are allonomic, living organisms are autonomic
There is a distinction between being autonomic, obeying self-law, and allonomic, obeying some other’s law. Machines are allonomic. Allonomic means other law. Other law means that the machine’s builder specifies the laws by which a machine operates. Laws refer to the causal connections within the machine. Machines are assembled piece by piece by the machine’s…
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Autognomics: Radical self-knowing
Autognomics translates from Greek and basically means “know yourself at the deepest possible level”. Autonomics points to a unique characteristic of how life-knows itself. The “g”, making it autognomics, is added for greater clarity of meaning drawing from the word gnostic, to know. Skye Hirst is co-founder of The Autognomics Institute. The mission of the…
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Metaphor: An organization as a tree
Daniel Mezick posted my Holacracy book review on Facebook . . . . . . and Michelle Holliday replied with the following metaphor of an organization as a tree. Here’s an excerpt of Michelle’s reply (my emphasis in bold) : … If we think of an organization as a tree, the roots can represent the…
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Soul of Business
The causes of much of what happens in our lives lie far deeper than we imagine. The Soul Biographies by Nic Askew look beneath the surface of our lives, work and society at an unusual depth. And in doing so, the films open our eyes wide to what people and organizations might become. Film Collection…