Two more recent examples getting a lot of OD focus right now are VUCA environments and Neuro coaching. My guess is that they will have a...

Nevertheless, since many OD practitioners DO use systems thinking in the service of certainty, the OD world has to take accountability...

last post it was stated that one of the ways of balancing mainstream OD perspectives required being hyper critical of current content and...

So what might balancing be like? As we walk along this field that has been mentioned in the last two posts, with the chasm of determinism...

last post a visual was introduced; a field extending in front and behind you with two chasms on the left and right sides. We looked at...

The deep chasm on the left is a psychological end point, the one on the right is a social construction end point. The world of OD and I...

In the first post of this series I stated that the mainstream approach of OD at present focuses on psychology and structure and that this...

M O T I V A T I O N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Most managers job descriptions I have seen will have some kind of a statement or a specific objective...

This subject is a troubling one and one that is getting all kinds of mainstream attention. Below is a post that was originally written in...

The purpose of an organization is to be a viable economic entity. The purpose of a person is to express identity. These two purposes are...

It is a bit challenging to not get all philosophical when you talk about the purpose of people. At some level this is truly a subjective...

In the last post I noted what I think is a really big and ugly problem that has come from anthropomorphizing organizations. That big and...