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.
Does too much structure get in the way of coordination? Are there structures (practices) that enable coordination? What can a work group do to better understand the coordination required to get their work done?
I have been thinking and writing about shifts in the way I go about my work. This is part of trying to understand how leaders and managers can develop a different kind of resourcefulness as they work within ongoing processes and emerging situations.
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
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 …