By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Apr 21
In yesterday’s post, I was concerned about both the abuse of power, and the effectiveness of confessional use of language. The desire to compel people to put into words (generally the words of power in the facilitator’s culture and/or ideology) learning is problematic to say the least. And the excuse of no one is compelled to ignores the guilt-tripping of group pressure and can easily result in gaming. The easiest way to get someone off your back is to say what they want you to say and then get on with what you wanted to do anyway. Most workshop-based intervention
In yesterday’s post, I was concerned about both the abuse of power, and the effectiveness of confessional use of language. The desire to compel people to put into words (generally the words of power in the facilitator’s culture and/or ideology) learning is problematic to say the least. And the excuse of no one is compelled to ignores the guilt-tripping of group
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 Apr 21
In some ways this post is a follow up to a point I made yesterday about the dangers of creating a coat of rhinestones on something rotten at the heart and by way or warning it is polemical in nature. I want to talk about the role of words and I am returning to an earlier pair of posts I wrote back in 2016 using the metaphor of Huxley’s Soma to castigate the happiness movement and a reference to Badger’s naïveté in The Wind in the Willows to indicate that verbal agreement to change, and in particular if that change is
In some ways this post is a follow up to a point I made yesterday about the dangers of creating a coat of rhinestones on something rotten at the heart and by way or warning it is polemical in nature. I want to talk about the role of words and I am returning to an earlier pair of posts I
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 2 Apr 21
Having All Fools Day as your birthday means that you rapidly become hyper-cautious until midday or simply avoid communication. The British have a long tradition of this with the famous BBC Panorama’s 1957 Spaghetti Harvest hoax. Then there was the Guardian’s 1977 special travel supplement on the island of San Serif is one I remember vividly. I was living in a Christian Socialist Commune just outside Bristol at the time and some of our members were in a state of high indignation about the seizure of power by General Minion and were setting themselves up to form a solidarity group
Having All Fools Day as your birthday means that you rapidly become hyper-cautious until midday or simply avoid communication. The British have a long tradition of this with the famous BBC Panorama’s 1957 Spaghetti Harvest hoax. Then there was the Guardian’s 1977 special travel supplement on the island of San Serif is one I remember vividly. I was living in
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 17 Feb 21
An alternative title for today’s post could have been sometimes necessary, rarely sufficient with the same subject namely the legitimate discussion of competence and its role in decision making as well as questions arising from the more nefarious areas of competence standards and certifications. the proximate trigger for this was the publication on Sunday of GAPPS Guiding Framework for Leadership in Complexity one day after our Field Guide. The mapping between them and the radical contrasts illustrate the growing divide between complexity approaches and those which go under the general banner of systems thinking. The GAPPS document is also a consensus document that
An alternative title for today’s post could have been sometimes necessary, rarely sufficient with the same subject namely the legitimate discussion of competence and its role in decision making as well as questions arising from the more nefarious areas of competence standards and certifications. the proximate trigger for this was the publication on Sunday of GAPPS Guiding Framework for Leadership in Complexity one
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Jan 21
Earlier today I got irritated by several things on social media. I admit that this is not unusual and some would argue that I obviously enjoy the stimulation too much. The Trump being deplatformed was worrying rather than irritating by the way as I have a nasty feeling that is going to backfire. I am long overdue a post on the whole free speech issue so more on that in the future. There were two immediate forms of irritation. The first was a modern form of plagiarism in which people read your articles and blogs, take ideas and original sources from
Earlier today I got irritated by several things on social media. I admit that this is not unusual and some would argue that I obviously enjoy the stimulation too much. The Trump being deplatformed was worrying rather than irritating by the way as I have a nasty feeling that is going to backfire. I am long overdue a post on the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Jan 21
This post is by way of a postscript to the main theme of the series. To be honest, I am never sure if the twelve days of Christmas start on the Day itself or Boxing day, but today is Epiphany when the Magi presented their gifts to the Christ Child and the traditional end of the Christmas period so I make no apology for adding a thirteenth post to the sequence. In Wales, the day is known as Ystwyll and its celebration involves significant consumption of cake in the hope of discovering a ring and the hunting of the wren,
This post is by way of a postscript to the main theme of the series. To be honest, I am never sure if the twelve days of Christmas start on the Day itself or Boxing day, but today is Epiphany when the Magi presented their gifts to the Christ Child and the traditional end of the Christmas period so I
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