Maybe it is a small, but crucial part of the system that is failing. Maybe we can fix it.
If it is something larger than what we see, do we assume that the way we know things is the way things should be.
One of those assumptions is the hierarchical nature of organizational systems.
Virtually all my conversations are revealing not just failure of hierarchy, but the inability to see how it can be saved.
When a company terminates the employment of 30,000 workers, what does this say about how the processes of the systems have operated and managed.
I’ve been talking with academics who have lost their teaching jobs. What are the conditions upstream that contributed to these decisions. And when these teachers are required to sign a NDA in order to receive their severance, it is reflection of the hierarchy not wanting to been scrutinized like they did faculty members.
So, if the change we see is larger rather than smaller, how do we respond when the hierarchy is closed to conversation?
The upside is that I find greater engagement with these questions.
Thanks Ed. There is something about having the one to see, and the will to notice. In the groups I am part of, reality creeps quietly into the conversation and then takes centre stage,
Our uncertainty is valuable - something of Keats ‘negative space”, a willingness to sit with it on its own terms, not try and make it something other than it is.
There things we do not see, or choose to not see.
Maybe it is a small, but crucial part of the system that is failing. Maybe we can fix it.
If it is something larger than what we see, do we assume that the way we know things is the way things should be.
One of those assumptions is the hierarchical nature of organizational systems.
Virtually all my conversations are revealing not just failure of hierarchy, but the inability to see how it can be saved.
When a company terminates the employment of 30,000 workers, what does this say about how the processes of the systems have operated and managed.
I’ve been talking with academics who have lost their teaching jobs. What are the conditions upstream that contributed to these decisions. And when these teachers are required to sign a NDA in order to receive their severance, it is reflection of the hierarchy not wanting to been scrutinized like they did faculty members.
So, if the change we see is larger rather than smaller, how do we respond when the hierarchy is closed to conversation?
The upside is that I find greater engagement with these questions.
Thanks Ed. There is something about having the one to see, and the will to notice. In the groups I am part of, reality creeps quietly into the conversation and then takes centre stage,
Our uncertainty is valuable - something of Keats ‘negative space”, a willingness to sit with it on its own terms, not try and make it something other than it is.
It really is a fascinating moment.