Category: Organizing

  • Vårt sätt att organisera är människofientligt

    I detta inlägg reflekterar jag över Jonna Bornemarks artikel Vårt sätt att organisera samhället har blivit människofientligt i DN 2019-12-25. Texten i artikeln är ursprungligen från ett tal som Jonna Bornemark höll i samband med Riksmötets öppnande 2019-09-10. Jonna Bornemark skriver att “frågan om hur vi organiserar vårt offentliga samhälle har blivit alltmer akut”. “Svaret…

  • Organizing as synergistic relationality

    Here is a post by David Ing with notes from a plenary Christopher Alexander Lecture by David Seamon at PUARL 2018 Conference. David Seamon talked about wholeness, where the whole remains whole. Wholeness is a global thing, easy to feel, hard to define. Seamon makes the following distinction between analytic vs. synergistic relationality. Analytic relationality–…

  • Two work perspectives

    Watts Humphrey and Dee Hock are two pioneers, in different areas, and in different ways. They also have two very different ways of seeing work. Watts Humphrey: Work is, or has to be, repeatable Watts Humphrey provides his view on process improvement in Three Process Perspectives: Organizations, Teams, and People (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Annals of…

  • Henri Bortoft on human organizations and relationships

    IntroductionHenri Bortoft is the author The Wholeness of Nature and Taking Appearance Seriously. I am particularly interested in the ‘dynamic way of seeing’ which is explained at length by Henri Bortoft. Taking the ‘appearance’ seriously is necessary if we want to see ‘life’ in nature and in work. Henri Bortoft mentions in Taking Appearance Seriously…

  • Organizing retrospective 126

    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. What has happened? What needs to be done?This is a retrospective, not only of…

  • Organizing reflections

    This is an overview of reflections in the series on organizing “between and beyond.” The series is an ongoing inquiry into a deeper “generative order” for organizing. It’s a search for a major shift in how we perceive and organize work. The purpose of the reflections are to reflect on subjects occupying my mind. Here…

  • Organizing retrospectives

    This is an overview of the retrospectives in the series on organizing “between and beyond.” The series is an ongoing inquiry into a deeper “generative order” for organizing. It’s a search for a major shift in how we perceive and organize work. The purpose of the retrospectives are to reflect on the journey itself. Here…

  • Organizing retrospective 111-116

    This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. This is a retrospective of what has happened lately. 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 is my…

  • Organizing retrospective 110

    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…

  • Organizing reflection 35

    This is a post in my series on organizing ”between and beyond.” Other posts are here. The purpose of this post is to reflect on subjects occupying my mind. I make no claim to fully believe what I write. Neither do I pretend that others have not already thought or written about the same subject.…