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Among job types, artists and professionals report most purpose, while "operators" and laborers are least likely to be purpose-filled. The report argues that purpose-oriented employees do better work, have higher well-being, stay in their jobs for longer and are better ambassadors for their employers.
and co-editor Red Pepper (www.redpepper.org.uk) (my main voluntary activist 'job'). My books have been different stages in a grounded and experimental exploration (unfinished of course!), of the possible forms and co ...
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Harvey Jones, and Ryland Lefoe: “Distributed Leadership for learning and teaching is a leadership approach in which collaborative working is undertaken between individuals who trust and respect each other’s contribution. It occurs as a result of an open culture within and across an institution. It is an approach in which reflective practice is an i...
that the engagement of many people contributes to a more shared, collaborative approach to leadership.
The example of the conductor-less Orpheus Orchestra, by Harvey Seifter: "In most orchestras, the conductor directly supervises each musician; the conductor not only decides what music will be played but how it will be played as well. There is little room for the opinions or suggestions of the musicians themselves; such input is rarely solicited and...
Paul Hartzog
“One of the great mysteries of large distributed systems– from communities and organizations to brains andecosystems – is how globally coherent activity canemerge in the absence of centralized authority orcontrol”. “We’re naturally predisposed to think in terms ofpacemakers, whether we’re talking about fungi, politicalsystems, or our own bodies…. For millennia we’ve builtelaborate pacemaker cells into our social organization,whether they come in the form of kings, dictators, orcity councilmem...
Mark Roest
"Leadership evolved in two or more major threads: small groups, especiallysmall communities and conscious companies, and large organizations,city-states, and nations. There have always been people who understood bothTheory X and Theory Y leadership philosophies, because they inherited themor discovered them on their own, before they were named. But in both cases, leadership was defined by the finite nature of theorganization or state, which often lived in hostility with at least some ofits ne...
When Milosevic refused to concede defeat to opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica, Otpor's example of disciplined nonviolence, along with its masses of activists, were crucial in convincing Serbia's security forces to defy Milosevic's orders to shoot at the protesters. On Oct. 7, the embattled president resigned. The unthinkable had happened.
Liberating Structures are easy-to-learn microstructures that enhance relational coordination and trust. They quickly foster lively participation in groups of any size, making it possible to truly include and unleash everyone. Liberating Structures are a disruptive innovation that can replace more controlling or constraining approaches.
Andy Robinson: "A Freeter (“a Japanese expression for people between the age of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding homemakers and students” – Wikipedia). Although the Japanese have coined a term for the group, they exist all over the world, and are a social force of underestimated and growing importance.
At that time, with an odd amount of precision, Amin estimated that ‘if you can reach 70 per cent delinking, you’ll have done a great job’. He pointed out that a strong country that is, for historical reasons, relatively stable and with a certain amount of military and economic power will have more leverage to delink.
