Category: Emerging Ideas

Learning to read emerging situations

Learning to read emerging situations

Getting down among the trees seems to me to involve a process of “reading” the situation or circumstance. By that I mean something different from an instrumental or informational reading. I suggest that a more tentative, slower, sensual reading is required.

Friday thought

Friday thought

Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. William James

Adaptive Action and Schroedinger’s Cat

Adaptive Action and Schroedinger’s Cat

Two articles particularly caught my eye this week. Both are well worth a read. The first, by Lisa Gill, begins by quoting Margaret Wheatley who suggests that: “I realised I had been living in a Schroedinger’s cat world in every organisation I had ever been in. Each of these organisations had myriad boxes, drawn in endess …

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