Photo by Darwin Bell Hyperlinks – follow these leads a thread. Haiku resources My friend Thomas Arthur, who weaves with gravity, posts Wooshclang! Richard Sweeney weaves with paper. A beautiful and complete list of what the world is made of. Does your disaster plan include conversation to mobilize quickly? Or is it still expert driven? Nice summary of Senge’s core concepts on Learning Organizations You, and many other living creature, have a billion and a half heartbeats to change the world. Change management myths. (Not including the myth that change can be managed, but still…) Doug’s blog: Footprints in …
From a conference call this morning with friends around some big work. We spoke about the fact that the work we are in – large scale systemic change – is plagued with doubt. There is no certainty that what we are doing is the right thing, or whether it will even work. But the project itself exists in a field of doubt, and as that doubt begins to pervade our core teams, the search for certainty becomes desperate. People begin to focus on little things that are going wrong and a depreciative world view takes hold. …
Just back from an amazing Art of Hosting in rural Pennsylvania. Found this in my email box upon my return, send to me by my friend Toke: Not just any talk is conversation Not any talk raises consciousness good conversation has an edge It opens your eyes to something It quickens your ears And good conversation reverberates It keeps on talking in your mind later in the day; The next day, you find yourself still conversing with what was said The reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness Your mind and heart have been moved Your are at …
Marshall McLuhan on the role of artists in harvesting patterns: “When you give people too much information, they instantly resort to pattern recognition, in other words, to structure the experience. I think this is part of the artist’s world. The artist, when he encounters the present…is always seeking new patterns, new pattern recognition, which is his task. The absolute indispensability of the artist is that he alone in the present can give the pattern recognition. He alone has the sensory awareness necessary to tell us what our world is made of. He is more important than …
Photo by Hamid Masoumi This question of the responsibility of love continues to live in me. I wrote a comment at Dave Pollard’s blog that captures another facet of it: Love IS a social issue and engaging in the world with love is a bit of a trick. It not only accelerates innovation and “better”, it is a double edged sword too. I think there is such a thing as “the responsibility of love” which refers to the way we wield the weapons of the heart in the world when we are working in the territory of open heartedness. When …