Creative Leadership Coaching

Hi Carman, A beautiful Sunday morning to you! I agree that Partnership does not need to answer to Paul, Plato or Shakespeare, although I do enjoy dialoging with them from time to time. Thank you for sharing your deeply thought through and fresh thoughts on Paul. One observation I would add is that whatever was or [...]

Good morning, Carman. Welcome back We are hoping for some rain today, as well — just 40% chance of thundershowers – would be great writing weather! Your post seems to describe several dimensions of thralldom, with freedom from one form of thralldom found at the cost of subjection to another, presumably better form of thralldom. [...]

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). [...]

Hi Carman, I am glad to hear that you are feeling restored to health! It’s a pleasure to read your posts again. Yes, I agree – Alfred North Whitehead once said that whatever constitutes a world view can be understood to constitute a religion. And, process theologian, David Ray Griffin, who interpreted and extended Whitehead’s work, observed [...]

Carman, As always it is a real pleasure to read and share your posts.  I look forward to having a chance to respond in the near future.  Best wishes to you! Lisa Habermas and Happy Cows http://www.takegreatpictures.com/content/images/home_cover_cows.jpg Hi Lisa, Thank you for the intellectual oasis you’ve created here! Like a jeweler examining a precious stone, I’ve [...]

More from Carman de voer: Great questions Lisa, Perhaps I could begin to address them through a practical illustration: I recently heard about a professional bureaucracy that is experiencing high turnover of its trainees—which, in such an organization, is surprising given the time, money and personnel allocated to training.  Furthermore, neophytes exhibit enormous enthusiasm and [...]

Another interesting and educational post from Carman! Lisa writes: “I wonder what it would do for us to consider organizations as creative, intelligent energy? I wonder if it would lead us to open up to these qualities, to the creative intelligent energy of others?” Two excellent questions Lisa. Employers may not understand the Brain metaphor’s enormous potential [...]

Carman, regarding: your post: http://www.creativeleadercoach.com/2009/01/07/metaphors-of-organization-organization-as-brain/ I completely agree. This is a good example of how our metaphors can limit our thinking. The mind-body dichotomy, in which mind is usually seen as separate from and superior to the body, has been a fundamental cultural metaphor. Related metaphors include: God-World, spirit-flesh, and the misogynist male-female dichotomy in which men [...]

Carman writes: Perhaps we could begin with “Brain.” While many are inclined to see the brain as somehow separate from and higher than the rest of the body, Morgan proposes that “intelligence” is, in fact, distributed throughout the entire body—such as the legs hands, feet. In short, there is no master, centralized intelligence. The brain, [...]

“Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively. I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively, dream.” –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Good morning, readers! It’s been a very intense time for me on the career coaching side of my practice, [...]