Category: Quotes
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Joseph Campbell on the quietness within
The place to find is within yourself. … The athlete who is in top form has a quite place within himself, and it’s around this, somehow, that his action occurs. If he’s all out there in the action field, he will not be performing properly. … this is true for dance as well. There’s a…
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A protective ring for creative support
Julia Cameron writes that “we are meant to midwife dreams for one another.” 1 Getting creative support, having a “protective ring“, 2 or circle, is often “the difference between success and failure, between hope and despair.” 3 She outlines the following principles for such a circle: 4 Creativity flourishes in a place of safety and…
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Foundational beliefs of the Genuine Contact Way
The Genuine Contact Way, as applied to our work, is about inviting everyone within the organization to express their fullness in all that they do, to contribute to the collective wisdom of the organization, and to experience high enjoyment, high creativity, high productivity, and high engagement every day. 1 The five foundational beliefs of the…
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The dancing rainbow within
Mae-Wan Ho’s new book Living Rainbow H2O is dedicated to the dancing rainbow within, which is made possible by the water that makes up all organisms. 1 Mae-Wan Ho writes (my emphasis in bold): “The organism is thick with coherent activities on every scale, from the macroscopic down to the molecular and below. I call…
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Joseph Campbell on following your bliss
“If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are — if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life…
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Questioning all assumptions
I got a question some time ago why I really ask so many questions? My answer was because I want to understand, but it also has to do with credibility. Let me give an example. One of the pillars in wirearchy is credibility, which is developed through an active questioning of all assumptions. 1 I…
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Ralph Stacey on beliefs
Ralph Stacey writes that if we believe that nature’s systems function like a clockwork and human systems move to the dictates of designing minds,1 then we quite naturally believe that nature can be controlled once the laws governing it have been discovered and human systems can be redesigned from scratch once a new intention has…
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Keeping your heart alive
When we are present in our work as human beings, when we are connected to the lives around us, and the stories around us, the work itself will sustain you, and inspire you, and even heal you. — Rachel Naomi Remen Notes: Keeping Your Heart Alive: Rachel Naomi Remen talks about the importance of connecting…
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Directed Opportunism
Moltke (1800–1891) developed auftragstaktik, which slipped into English as mission command, and is called directed opportunism by Stephen Bungay.1 The principles are: Decide what really matters Get the message across Give people space and support Notes: 1 Stephen Bungay, Moltke – Master of Modern Management, The European Financial Review, April-May 2011. Related posts: Book Review:…
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Open Space is very lightly scripted
Daniel Mezick writes in Open Space Tells The Story (Agile Coaching Lessons) that “Open Space inside organizations is a very lightly scripted drama” and that “great conversations are leading to great solutions”. Keywords for me here are “lightly scripted” because I think heavy scripting chips away the cornerstones of self-organization.