Category: Life
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Enjoy life
I found this anonymous unattributed quote about enjoying life even when there are hardships to overcome in a shop window in Umeå, Sweden. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
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Operating principles for mechanisms and organisms
Here is a comparison between operating principles for mechanisms and organisms from Elisabet Sahtouris’ book EarthDance, page 370: MECHANISM ORGANISM Allopoietic Autopoietic Inventor created Self-created Hierarchic structure Holarchic embeddedness Top-down command Holarchic dialog/negotiation System engineered System negotiated Repaired by engineers/experts Repairs itself Evolution by external redesign Evolution by internal redesign Exists for product or profit…
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Organizational and operational features of healthy living systems
Here is a list of organizational and operational features of healthy living systems from Elisabet Sahtouris’ book EarthDance, page 369: Self-creation (autopoiesis) Self-reflexivity (autognosis—self-knowledge) Self-regulation/maintenance (autonomics) Response ability—to internal and external stress or change Embeddedness in larger holons and dependence on them (holarchy) Input/output of matter/energy/information from/to other holons Transformation of matter/energy/information Communications among all…
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Konsten att leva innerligt
Ted Harris och Ann Lagerström har tillsammans skrivit en bok om Konsten att leva innerligt. Boken handlar om meningen med livet. Varken mer eller mindre. Guide ut på de existentiella djupen är Søren Kierkegaard. Boken är uppbyggd som ett samtal mellan Ann och Søren. Ur Søren Kierkegaards egen brottningskamp med de existentiella frågorna växte tre…
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Seeing Life in Work
Simon Robinson is co-author of Holonomics, Customer Experiences with Soul, and Deep Tech and the Amplified Organisation. Simon invited me to write a guest blog post for Transition of Consciousness. I wrote about Seeing Life in Work. Update 2022-09-18: Text updated and converted to blocks.
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A matter of life and death
John Wenger asks in his post A Matter of Life and Death “Why would the whole of the Universe be a complex, self-organising and interdependent system, and a business be a top-down, controlled machine?” Yes indeed why? He continues saying that “Even if we continue to “KNOW” that our business is a machine, it does…
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Art as an expression of life
”Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life’s experience.” – Robert Henri
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Life-giving work
“Our workplaces don’t have to be the way they have always been; they can be places where people come alive …” – Gregg Kendrick “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller “Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.” – Dale…
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Designing space for better organizational and individual life
Salima Nathoo says it’s time to get your shift together as leader. She lists the following five key shifts to better organizational and individual life while driving business excellence: Openness → Truth Values → Voice Performance → Play Dream → Dare Embrace → Exchange She says conversation is the catalyst for every shift. It all…
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Commitment to life
“People do not respond for long to small and self-centered purposes or to self-aggrandizing work. Too many organizations ask us to engage in hollow work, to be enthusiastic about small-minded visions, to commit ourselves to selfish purposes, to engage our energy in competitive drives. Those who offer us this petty work hope we won’t notice…