Finding Home
When you’ve lived in in nineteen cities (in seven countries), you don’t really get the concept of “home.” People ask me where I’m from, and I don’t know how to answer. “But where do you think of as home?” they ask. And I choose whichever city...
Work for Human Beings
I’m pretty constantly on my soapbox these days, hawking a view of organizations as living systems. Included in this new paradigm is a shift in our concept of the work contract, from one that views people as resources or assets to one that recognizes their full...
Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution
My colleagues and I have had an ongoing debate about whether we should use the phrase “spirit of life” when we talk about the integrative property or force that animates living systems, including ourselves and our organizations. Of course, we mean it in a...Page 9 of 9
