In many ways writing these posts has been about getting my thinking straight and as coherent as possible in terms of my perspective on...

I have worked in and with organizations for 40 years now (wow, time does fly)! Over that time there have been numerous times where I felt...

The last three posts have looked at ways of taking our own small steps in reducing OUCH! in our organizational lives. This post continues...

The last two posts have looked at changing our perspectives about the formal things we do in organizations and the expectations we have...

In the last post we looked at changing our perspective regarding the formal things we do in organizations. Seeing them as just one more...

One of the quickest ways to remove some OUCH! from our work environments is to change our perspective on the formal things we do in our...

I think this quote used earlier from Norbert Elias is a good place to start as we look at what small steps we can take to reduce the...

So what is going on here? When we look at the last three posts there are two very important points about the drive for certainty: This...

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian and his book Sapiens provides an excellent brief history of humankind and poses some very challenging...

Norbert Elias was a sociologist and lived (1897 – 1990) through what can be considered one of the most significant and ‘compressed’ times...

Antonio Damasio is a neuroscientist and spends a lot of his time trying to figure out just what is happening inside our heads from a...

last post I noted that it would be good to better understand where this drive for certainty may be coming from since it is so prevalent...