Category: Organizing
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Organizing retrospective 14
This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened during the week. The purpose is to reflect on the work itself. Here is my previous retrospective. Here is my next retrospective. What has happened? What needs to be done? This…
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Organizing retrospective 13
This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened during the week. The purpose is to reflect on the work itself. Here is my previous retrospective. Here is my next retrospective. What has happened? What needs to be done? I…
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Organizing retrospective 12
This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened during the week. The purpose is to reflect on the work itself. Here is my previous retrospective. Here is my next retrospective. What has happened? What needs to be done? I…
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Wheatley & Kellner-Rogers on the future of organizing
Here is an article from July/August 1996 on The Irresistible Future of Organizing by Margaret J. Wheatley & Myron Kellner-Rogers. They write: “Organizations-as-machines is a 17th century notion … Three hundred years later, we still serach for “tools and techniques” …” “The tension of our times is that we want our organizations to behave as…
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Organizing retrospective 11
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened during the week. The purpose is to reflect on the work itself. Here is my previous retrospective. Here is my next retrospective. What has happened? What needs to be done? I’ve…
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Patterns related to work
This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. The following are patterns related to work in Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language: Scattered Work: The artificial separation of houses and work creates intolerable rifts in people’s inner lives. This separation reinforces the idea that work is a toil. Therefore,…
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Analysis of pattern languages
This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to identify the key assumptions in Christopher Alexander’s pattern language in architecture. It’s assumed that the conclusions are applicable to other pattern languages as well. The analysis is summarized here. Background A pattern language…
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Organizing retrospective 10
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened during the week. The purpose is to reflect on the work itself. Here is my previous retrospective. Here is my next retrospective. What has happened? What needs to be done? I…
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Organizing retrospective 9
This is a post in my series on organizing “between and beyond.” Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened during the week. The purpose is to reflect on the work itself. Here is my previous retrospective. Here is my next retrospective. What has happened? What needs to be done? I…
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Analysis of the systems view of life
This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to analyze the key assumptions in the systems view of life. The analysis is summarized here. Background This post is based on The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision by Fritjof Capra and…