Dive into the archives.
- Developing Virtual Muscle
The Working Knowledge Initiative is learning as it progresses: and this is learning that passes along to its participants. It wasn’t long ago, in my clinical practice, that I’d check in and out of my emails at the beginning and end of the day (listening to messages on the telephone answering machine sporadically). Like many [...]
- Working Knowledge Initiative. Exercise I for Reluctant Entrepreneurs.
“How do I begin to consider even thinking about the Working Knowledge Initiative? How do I begin to wrap my head around an idea like that?”
Beginning to consider a life transition to entrepreneurship is a big hurdle. Most of us never consider that we spend much of our lives doing accounting (paying bills, managing budgets…), [...]
- Curating the Accord Advisory Blog
Taking a page from our own blog, Accord set out this week to review what we’ve written for the last year. The idea was simple: in managing our daily affairs, the projects that are before us, and how these shape our identity over time, something gets lost.
It can be likened to baking cookies: you roll [...]
- Composing a Language
One of the results of studying different disciplines– clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, group relations, business administration, organizational development, and industrial-organizational psychology—is a parochial confusion of tongues.
What one discipline holds as the meaning of a word or concept is not its understanding within another, related discipline. For example, “personality” within the i-o world conjures the very useful [...]
- Organizational Coaching for Individuals During Unemployment
The dialogs between the blog writer and the reader begin in the blog post’s generalization and develop according to increasingly particular themes. These are initially signaled by the reader/respondent who brings them to the essayist’s attention. They are then elaborated through successive pairings of letter and response between correspondents.
Thinking about this process along the lines [...]
- Passivity,Activity, and the Current Economic Climate
The reframing of problem as opportunity is the mantra of the current economic climate (CEC). And from within our chanting, whether through gritted teeth or genuine optimism, we have the choice of passivity or activity.
Passively, we may be mesmerized by our decrements: in spending power, in the small luxuries we’d become accustomed to, and in [...]
- The Current Economic Climate
The Irish, in their euphemistic wisdom, have a term for our shared, global situation: “The CEC”. The term seems to have originated in the early years of this millennium, as the Celtic Tiger began its run; and judging from the bitterness about the CEC on blogs from that time, it must have begun as a [...]
- Dynamics of My Emerging Blog Relationships
I have been observing how the development of blog relationships closely parallels other relational forms from business exchanges to friendships and mutual support. What begins in the offering of a personal statement finds either a receptive or non-receptive hearing in another’s interest.
In the instance of this receptive hearing, my reader selects a dimension of my [...]
- On Purposive Reading
Getting a foothold in the universe of blogging, I have discovered that the antithesis of “composing” one’s life, is probably the “composting” of meaning — which occurs through random accumulation, however initially purposive the intellectual pursuit.
Several concrete examples winked at me as bell weathers of this concept. The first was Slate’s summary of news stories [...]
- Acquaintance With Others
The art of curating one’s life presents itself in real-time challenges. The first step is in taking an internal inventory of the bits and pieces of personal history. Un-tethered from pride and shame— the borders of the familiar narratives we tell ourselves— what we’ve got is a fairly interesting assortment of stuff: like the tables [...]
