Category: Quotes
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När livet står på spel och tillvaron rubbas
“Jag har arbetat i mer än trettio år och jag är djupt oroad över det som sker … Det finns otaliga exempel på beprövad erfarenhet … som visar på vad som är väsentligt då livet står på spel och tillvaron rubbas. … Det är inte individuella diagnoser … som är det primära. Det väsentliga handlar…
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David Bohm on ecology, organization, thinking, dialogue, and wholeness
David Bohm on ecology, organization, thinking, dialogue, and wholeness:1 “… the ecology in itself is not a problem. It works perfectly well by itself. Its due to us, right?” “The earth is one household really, but we are not treating it that way …” “… the more you made society big and you had organization,…
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Holacracy and Arthur Koestler
The organizational structure in Holacracy is a holarchy, a term coined by Arthur Koestler in The Ghost in the Machine. Brian Robertson writes in his book on Holacracy that: The type of structure used for organizations in Holacracy is not a traditional hierarchy, but a “holarchy.” Arthur Koestler coined the term in his 1967 book…
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Michelle Holliday on thrivability
I tweet quotes from the books I read from my twitter account @janhoglund. Here is a compilation of the most retweeted and liked quotes from Michelle Holliday’s upcoming book The Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World (in italics): … thrivability – the intention and practice of enabling life to thrive…
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Michael Pannwitz on pre-conditions for Open Space
Here are quotes of Michael M Pannwitz from an email to the World wide Open Space Technology email list June 6, 2016. (My emphasis in bold.) I think that there is a much easier way to have the sponsor find out whether ost [Open Space Technology] fits his situation… Simply go through the preconditions for…
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David Bohm och den vetenskapliga andan
Paavo Pylkkänen skriver i David Bohm och den vetenskapliga andan om Bohm och hans syn på vetenskap, andlighet och – inte minst – dialog (min betoning i fetstil). Bohm och hans världsbild “Bohm upplevde mer och mer att … den verkliga utmaningen var huruvida människor kunde diskutera och agera tillsammans på ett kreativt och koherent…
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The misfit’s myth
“Even at the moment of your failure, right there, you are beautiful. You don’t know it yet, but you have the ability to reinvent yourself endlessly. That’s your beauty!“ 1 —Lidia Yuknavitch Notes: 1 Lidia Yuknavitch, The beauty of being a misfit @ (11:41), TED2016, Filmed Feb 2016. (Accessed 28 May 2016)
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Carol Black on the wildness of children
Carol Black writes the following in On the Wildness of Children (my emphasis in bold): When we first take children from the world and put them in an institution, they cry. … But gradually, over the many years of confinement, they adjust. … The same people who do not see themselves as “above” nature but…
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Beth Tener on working together
If you want to arrive at a shared vision and a plan that integrates and builds on the breadth and depth of expertise and perspectives of the group, it has to be developed together. The challenge is that in order to get to that, there is a time early on where you have to bring…
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George Monbiot on destroying autonomy
The workplace has been overwhelmed by a mad, Kafkaesque infrastructure of assessments, monitoring, measuring, surveillance and audits, centrally directed and rigidly planned, whose purpose is to reward the winners and punish the losers. It destroys autonomy, enterprise, innovation and loyalty, and breeds frustration, envy and fear. 1 — George Monbiot Notes: 1 Sick of this…