Category: Life
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Masanobu Fukuoka in his own words
This post is a compilation of my tweets from reading of Masanobu Fukuoka’s two books The One-Straw Revolution and Sowing Seeds in the Desert. Masanobu Fukuoka (1913–2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher. He was an outspoken advocate of the value of observing nature’s principles. IntroductionThe One-Straw Revolution is Masanobu Fukuoka’s first book which became a…
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Stuart Kauffman on emergence and life
Here is Closer To Truth‘s interview with Stuart Kauffman about “Is Emergence Fundamental?” Stuart Kauffman says among other things that (my emphasis in bold): Reason is an insufficient guide for living your life. It means we need reason, emotion, intuition, sensation, metaphor. … Life is much richer than we thought.1 The biosphere is creating its…
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Martin Luther King on knowing thyself
“Number one in your life’s blueprint should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth, and your own somebodiness. Don’t allow anybody to make you feel that you are nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.” – Martin…
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Learning to see in the dark
Here is Dahr Jamail’s interview with deep ecologist and systems theorist Joanna Macy on Learning to See in the Dark Amid Catastrophe. Joanna Macy says: “[…] you can’t do it alone. The dangers coming down on us now are so humongous that it is really beyond an individual mind all by her/him/itself to take it…
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Peter Pula on why hosting is harder than leading
Peter Pula is the Founder of Axiom News. Here is his post on Why Hosting Is Harder than Leading. He writes that: “We have become so remarkably accustomed to a form of leadership that comes from the top.” “Top down leadership seems easier in the short term, but I believe it takes its toll. Too…
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Glöm inte bort företagets ekologi
Lasse Ramquist och Mats Eriksson skriver i boken Manöverbarhet: Att [enbart] jobba med ett logiskt-rationellt och fragmenterat perspektiv … är liktydigt med att glömma företagets ekologi. Det innebär att man glömmer bort att alla företag är … komplexa levande system. Det innebär att man behandlar levande system som om de vore tekniska system …1 Fotnot:…
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Tamsin Woolley-Barker on deep patterns in life
Tamsin Woolley-Barker is an author and evolutionary biologist. She looks for the deep patterns in life. Here is an article1 where Tamsin Woolley-Barke writes: Organizations can’t keep growing the way we structure them today. There’s nothing inherently wrong with hierarchies. In fact, nature uses them all the time—to stop change from happening. … Hierarchies are…
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Elisabet Sahtouris on living systems
Elisabet Sahtouris asks in this talk (my emphasis in bold):1 “Why is it that our culture, which is made up of people who are alive (so presumably we are a living system), knows so little about living systems? […] And yet we pretend to understand life. […] if we as human beings don’t understand ourselves…
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The very quality of livingness
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” The series is inspired by David Bohm and David Peat. This post is inspired by Henri Bortoft. Other posts are here. Taking Apperance Seriously by Bortoft It is all too easy for our thinking to lose sight of the very quality of livingness…
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Organizing for thrivability
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to compare Michell Holliday’s framework for organizational thrivability with Integral Management, which I have written about here. Background Michelle Holliday is a facilitator, consultant, researcher, presenter, and writer. Her work centers around ”thrivability,”…