Category: Workplaces
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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.…
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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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Glöm inte bort företagets ekologi
Lasse Ramquist och Mats Eriksson skriver i boken Manöverbarhet: Att [enbart] jobba med ett logiskt-rationellt och fragmenterat perspektiv … är liktydigt med att glömma företagets ekologi. Det innebär att man glömmer bort att alla företag är … komplexa levande system. Det innebär att man behandlar levande system som om de vore tekniska system …1 Fotnot:…
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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…
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John Seddon on lean
John Seddon writes about lean in his two books Freedom from Command & Control and The Whitehall Effect. He writes that the term lean was coined by Womack, Roos and Jones1 when they wrote The Machine That Changed the World. The term thus came to represent the Toyota Production System as a whole. What’s interesting…
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Life-nurturing vs. life-depleting behaviors
The environment within which people work is key to the organization’s success. Life-nurturing conditions contribute to high creativity and productivity, while life-depleting conditions contribute to apathy and low productivity. Life-nurturing behaviors 1 Life-depleting behaviors 2 Listening Controlling Understanding Punishing Trusting Regulating Sharing Telling Clarifying Shaming Judging Rationalizing Notes: 1 These are some of the behaviors…
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A rainbow of intelligences
Lasse Ramquist and Mats Eriksson believe that we all can access each one of the following intelligences. The more we use them, the more they develop. Color Values Strenghts Weaknesses Beige Survival Brings full energy to the job at hand if something is at stake. 1 Falls into complacency when feeling safe. 2 Purple Belonging…
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Integral Management
Integral Management is a management model which addresses the question: “What does it take to have everyone in a company wholeheartedly join forces and take on challenges that, to most companies, would seem quite impossible?” The model has grown organically for more than 25 years. It’s based on a learning dialog involving tens of thousands…
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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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Ralph Stacey on rule-following
Ralph Stacey writes that we have to think of global organizational order as continually emerging in myriad local interactions,1 and that it is highly simplistic to think of human beings as rule-following beings.2 In our acting, we may take account of rules but can hardly be said to blindly follow them.3 The essential and distinctive…