Creative Leadership Coaching

Hi Carman, My apologies for my delay in responding! I appreciate your willingness to remain in dialogue with me during this period where I’m not able to respond as quickly as I would like.   Your post raises such insightful and powerful questions about organizations. First, you notice the parallel between Patterson’s description of the thrall [...]

Hi Lisa, I am preoccupied with your statement, “I think self-searching and transformation are foundational to our collective “recovery” and shift to a real ethic of Partnership.” I scour Morgan’s Metaphors of Organization to locate structures that support self-searching and transformation. The fruitage of my “inspired groping” is as follows. Patterson observes that the thrall [...]

“It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party”–Nineteen Eighty-Four” Ideological Inversion and Ideological Self-Deception Lisa, thank you for ‘making the darkness conscious’ by examining the root system of slavery. I especially love your powerful and prescient comment, “In considering how perspective – especially the perspectives of the powerful [...]

Carman, Thank you for this contribution. It’s so relevant to our whole discussion, I’m also posting it up here in the main blog. Best regards, Lisa Hello Denis and Lisa, I’m not sure about the question but I believe you are asking about the odd language academics use to describe organizational culture. It’s so easy [...]

Hi Denis, Your interpretation sounds correct to me. (Beyond what Hatch describes, I see another, “constructive postmodern position” (1) which draws from both modernism and symbolic interpretivism). I’m posting your question for our readers, as their perspectives might reveal new useful insights.  Best wishes, Lisa  Hi Lisa. I’m trying to understand organization as culture. Can you forward to [...]

Hi Lisa, I love Sundays! Thank you for the references to Solzhenitsyn. It’s interesting that thralldom figures prominently in his text: “The whole raison d’etre of serfdom and the Archipelago is one and the same: these are the social structures for the ruthless enforced utilization of the free-of-cost work of millions of slaves” (Chapter 5). [...]

Carman, Thank you for your note! I appreciation this whole process of deconstruction and reconstruction of ideas. It takes courage to relinquish our certainty enough to open our minds to new connections and possibilities. There is a period of chaos before new structures coalesce, which can be uncomfortable, to the say the least, but the [...]

10/1/09  Hi Lisa, Thank you so much for your gracious comments. It’s wonderful that our minds can interplay notwithstanding our constraints and commitments-you within an intellectual orchard, and me within a psychological sarcophagus.  Lisa, you ask if I would like to see the discussion move up a little. I believe I would find it easier [...]

Hi Lisa,  I am happy to hear that you have experienced Partnership relationships where thralldom was not an active force. I would like to include myself in that relationship. Succinctly, I would say that “partnership” is more probable where one is not subject to the will of another. Even slaves experienced a kind of partnership, [...]

9/23/09  Carman, Hello, I apologize for the delay in posting and responding. I’ve been on a writing vacation for the past two weeks (continuing this week). You’ve begun a powerful analysis of the dominator paradigm, and I am looking forward to reading how you further develop your tree of knowledge! It’s useful, I think, to [...]