Category: Power

When the Animals Come

When the ani­mals come, pay atten­tion. Even if it is only a bush wren danc­ing among the branch­es, stop for a moment and praise this lit­tle being. She knows a deep­er lan­guage than you may ever share. It does­n’t have to be some grandiose, inflat­ed mir­a­cle – the white stag high up against the sky or the house lion… Con­tin­ue read­ing When the Ani­mals Come

The Wolves Revisited

It is a strange time to say the least.  Peo­ple are begin­ning to pub­lish more and more about Trump, rais­ing aware­ness of the dan­gers he rep­re­sents. The good news is he is being stopped, grad­u­al­ly, by peo­ple shar­ing the rapid­ly accu­mu­lat­ing evi­dence of his pat­terns: author­i­tar­i­an­ism, racism, misog­y­ny, xeno­pho­bia, crude­ness, nar­cis­sism, denials, divi­sive­ness, blam­ing, lying, vio­lence.… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Wolves Revisited

How to Have a Strategy for Change

Think of “strat­e­gy” as hav­ing a per­spec­tive, an agen­da if you will, about how things could be bet­ter. When I’m help­ing a man­ag­er think about what those things are for a depart­ment in a more or less tra­di­tion­al hier­ar­chy, I like to employ a kind of sys­tems map that illu­mi­nates dif­fer­ent aspects of the work… Con­tin­ue read­ing How to Have a Strat­e­gy for Change

Contagion

It’s usu­al­ly around 3 AM when the dream begins. It is the mid­dle of the night, both inside and out­side the dream, and I am again being chased by Nazis. The dream has many vari­a­tions. In a few there’s a dis­tinct fig­ure of pow­er that cap­tures me and from whom I must escape, but in most… Con­tin­ue read­ing Con­ta­gion