Organisations as living systems – day 1

Posted on April 22, 2008. Filed under: leadership, organisational culture | Tags: , |

Day 1 was all about getting used to Schumacher College and its philosophy of participative community – including cooking, cleaning, gardening etc. and getting to know the other participants. The other attendees come from all around the world (from Australia to Canada) are very interesting and friendly and it seems like I’ve been here for [...]

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‘De-engineering’ your organisation …

Posted on March 31, 2008. Filed under: intranet, leadership, social media | Tags: , , , |

I just stumbled across the term ‘de-engineering’ – a term first coined by Margaret Wheatley in response to the notion of organisational ‘re-engineering’. She says:
“We really have to “de-engineer” our thinking, which means that we have to examine how mechanistically we are oriented — even in our treatment of one another. This is especially true [...]

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