Category: Organizing

  • Organizing retrospective 8

    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…

  • Organizing retrospective 7

    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 journey itself. Here is my previous retrospective. Here is my next retrospective. What has happened since the start? What needs to…

  • Free flow of meaning

    This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. Introduction Arleta Griffor has written two essays in The Search for Meaning, which is a book edited by Paavo Pylkkänen. Griffor writes about the self-organizing nature of the implicate order and how to deal with misinformation, among other things. This…

  • Meaning as being

    This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. Introduction Arleta Griffor has written two essays in The Search for Meaning, which is a book edited by Paavo Pylkkänen. Griffor writes about the self-organizing nature of the implicate order and how to deal with misinformation, among other things. This…

  • Organizing retrospective 6

    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…

  • Organizing retrospective 5

    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…

  • The meaning of meaning

    The Search for Meaning by Pylkkänen (editor) This is a post in my organizing “between and beyond” series. Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to explore David Bohm’s notion of meaning in The Search for Meaning by Paavo Pylkkänen (editor).1 The power of meaning is that it completely organizes being.2 Meaning…

  • A new organising platform

    neworganising.eu is a new platform on new ways of organising work and society. The assumption is that we have to reinvent the ways we are working and living together, while respecting human values. The goal is to uncover “hidden” gems of organising work and society in different ways, and by doing so grow a movement…

  • Exploring forward-thinking workplaces

    Bill Fox (@BillFoxStrategy) explores forward-thinking ways to work differently in a world of constant whitewater. Here is his and Container13‘s interview series on forward-thinking workplaces where he addresses the following questions: How can we create workplaces where every voice matters, everyone thrives & finds meaning, and change & innovation happen naturally? What does it take to get…

  • Peggy Holman on the gifts of Open Space

    After about two years of working with Open Space, Peggy Holman reflected on how it had influence her and what she had learned through aspiring to live consciously in a self-organizing world. In brief, the gifts of Open Space were around:1 Generosity of spirit Focus on essence over form Seek simplicity Inclusion/invitation A sense of…