By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 15 Sep 23
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 127 Leftism, including Marxism, isĀ operational. It isĀ strategic. It knows what itās doing and how to do it. It might look crazy, but thatās deliberate. In fact, Leftists proudly publish and disseminate activist guides for their agenda like the bookĀ Beautiful TroubleĀ that spell out for anyone how to do ātransformativeā activism through deliberate and strategic troublemaking. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay ties together three activist principles fromĀ Beautiful TroubleĀ with a large number of relevant contemporary examples to make clear how Marxist Leftism works and is working in our current …
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 127 Leftism, including Marxism, isĀ operational. It isĀ strategic. It knows what itās doing and how to do it. It might look crazy, but thatās deliberate. In fact, Leftists proudly publish and disseminate activist guides for their agenda like the bookĀ Beautiful TroubleĀ that spell out for anyone how to do ātransformativeā activism through deliberate and …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Aug 23
By Ted Rau for Enlivening Edge Magazine [Enlivenning Edge is happy to be an affiliate ecosystem partner recommending this conference.] Letās play good news and bad news. The good news is that Iām seeing more and more self-management and trust-ful and leader-ful organizations emerge, or traditional organizations that include more patterns of shared responsibility. Whatās the bad news? Iām worried. Iām worried because I think the movement has significant gaps. Let me explain. Every organization consists of team-level and organization-level functions. (See, for example the Viable Systems Model) The team level functions do the major work of the organizationā producing …
By Ted Rau for Enlivening Edge Magazine [Enlivenning Edge is happy to be an affiliate ecosystem partner recommending this conference.] Letās play good news and bad news. The good news is that Iām seeing more and more self-management and trust-ful and leader-ful organizations emerge, or traditional organizations that include more patterns of shared responsibility. Whatās the bad news? Iām worried. …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 12 Jun 23
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 120 Woke Marxism is an invasive, subversive force that seeks to usurp the authority of the society it infects and transform it into something under its own control. This tells us quite a bit about it and offers us an unlikely glimpse at a comprehensive strategy to fighting it. In this off-beat episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay describesĀ a broad, comprehensive strategy for fighting Woke Marxism by analyzing it from the perspective of traditional five-element theory. Join him to get a ton of ideas for useful things to do. …
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 120 Woke Marxism is an invasive, subversive force that seeks to usurp the authority of the society it infects and transform it into something under its own control. This tells us quite a bit about it and offers us an unlikely glimpse at a comprehensive strategy to fighting it. In this off-beat …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 1 Jun 23
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 53 When you understand that virtually everything with Woke Marxism is (a) impossible and (b) a strategic provocation, it leads you to think about engaging with it differently. (And engage with it we must!) A powerful technique for breaking free of Woke magic spells and manipulation is simply to take a step back andĀ name the dynamic. This is a powerful technique from mediation and negotiation that can break through many stuck situations, but itās crucially important to understand how it must be applied to defeat dialectical traps and advances from the Woke. Join host James Lindsay …
New Discourses Bullets, Ep. 53 When you understand that virtually everything with Woke Marxism is (a) impossible and (b) a strategic provocation, it leads you to think about engaging with it differently. (And engage with it we must!) A powerful technique for breaking free of Woke magic spells and manipulation is simply to take a step back andĀ name the dynamic. …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 14 Feb 23
By Claudia Gross and originally published as a Life at Work email newsletter When I decided to dedicate this newsletter to purpose-driven planning, I realized that every workshop and every meeting is driven by my purpose toĀ energize and enableĀ people, teams and organizations to evolveĀ their lives, language and businesses for positive impacts and a thriving future for all. I even had a meeting with the Brazilian conscious marketing agency Purpous ā Brands with Soul! In the first newsletter of 2023,Ā L@W #201, I encouraged you to look back and to look forward, inspired byĀ Inner Development Goals (IDGs). This review or retrospective isĀ one …
By Claudia Gross and originally published as a Life at Work email newsletter When I decided to dedicate this newsletter to purpose-driven planning, I realized that every workshop and every meeting is driven by my purpose toĀ energize and enableĀ people, teams and organizations to evolveĀ their lives, language and businesses for positive impacts and a thriving future for all. I even had …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 27 Nov 21
The last three blog posts provided the core scaffolding for what I have been calling the Estuarine framework (pending getting a proper name for it). Iāve got a lot of work to flesh out the summary I provided in the last post, and also connect it with earlier material including a key post on the subject of learning in anthro-complexity. Ā But overall I am increasingly thinking it is as, if not more important, than Cynefin. Ā In the main, all approaches to strategy derive in some way or other from Military planning based on political objectives. Ā That said the various non-military …
The last three blog posts provided the core scaffolding for what I have been calling the Estuarine framework (pending getting a proper name for it). Iāve got a lot of work to flesh out the summary I provided in the last post, and also connect it with earlier material including a key post on the subject of learning in anthro-complexity. …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 19 Nov 21
Iāve got into the habit of tweeting a summit picture from each Wainwright summit as a part of my challenge to complete all 214 in less than 40 days. For those interested Iāve summarised the current status at the foot of this post. Ā I have a clear end date – my 68th birthday on the 1st April 2022, a constraint (no more than 40 days) but within that I have buffer stock that can allow for weather and some injury. Ā Also on each day I have exit options, target time to each summit and Iām constantly monitoring time, weather, ground …
Iāve got into the habit of tweeting a summit picture from each Wainwright summit as a part of my challenge to complete all 214 in less than 40 days. For those interested Iāve summarised the current status at the foot of this post. Ā I have a clear end date – my 68th birthday on the 1st April 2022, a constraint …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 11 Oct 21
Thanks to a sudden slip on greasy rock descending from Red Screes Iām home a couple of days early. Ā The absence of cartilage under both patellas, managed through kinesiology tape and strength and conditioning classes, means any fall or slip (and you canāt avoid them) can leave me with a week or moreās ibuprofen and icepack recovery. Ā It was a real pain (literally and figuratively) as I was moving at pace thanks to working on balance and taping over the previous month and looking forward to several days, so it was a depressing setback and after two days of attempting …
Thanks to a sudden slip on greasy rock descending from Red Screes Iām home a couple of days early. Ā The absence of cartilage under both patellas, managed through kinesiology tape and strength and conditioning classes, means any fall or slip (and you canāt avoid them) can leave me with a week or moreās ibuprofen and icepack recovery. Ā It was a …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Oct 21
This post follows on from the September series which looked at the whole issue of the learning organisation, and I have no intention of getting involved in the debates about who first created that term. Ā Iāll say now that one major error was that the idea of a learning organisation, which was the subtitle of āThe Fifth Disciplineā transmogrified into The Learning Organisation and became an end its own right. Ā This is one of the general issues with most popular forms of systems thinking in that they confuse an emergent property with a manageable cause. Ā In fact, learning is an …
This post follows on from the September series which looked at the whole issue of the learning organisation, and I have no intention of getting involved in the debates about who first created that term. Ā Iāll say now that one major error was that the idea of a learning organisation, which was the subtitle of āThe Fifth Disciplineā transmogrified into …
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 15 Nov 19
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