The Quiet Room

A few apples still cling to a tree out­side the win­dow where I am writ­ing — which hap­pens to be a pub­lic library.  The apples that swing in the top branch­es are like my wan­der­ing thoughts on this last day of Sep­tem­ber. I keep get­ting dis­tract­ed by them. In the dis­tance, every so often I… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Qui­et Room

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The Shudder

The prob­lem with self-knowl­­edge is that it’s not an absolute thing. In effect, those who say they know them­selves are kid­ding them­selves. And those who say they don’t know them­selves are also lying.  I like the way John Wenger over at Quan­tum Shift­ing says it. In a recent post, John tells the sto­ry of a client… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Shud­der

The Nature of Alignment

The com­mon think­ing about orga­ni­za­tion­al “align­ment” is that some­how if all the struc­tured, ana­lyzed job box­es roll up to accom­plish the largest goals of the orga­ni­za­tion, then the com­pa­ny is said to be “aligned.” This is a ter­ri­bly hier­ar­chi­cal view, one total­ly depen­dent on top-down task assign­ment mythol­o­gy that accounts not at all for the… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Nature of Alignment

Water and Stone

How much of our life is the prod­uct of water and stone? If you think of water, say, as con­scious­ness, you can notice then how it flows against the stone of old ideas and beliefs. You can try to hold onto that stone, that sol­id rock, but the stone grad­u­al­ly will be smoothed and worn… Con­tin­ue read­ing Water and Stone