Category Archives: Organizational culture

A book for resolve: Change or Die

Change or Die by Alan Deutschman was referred to me by a physician who is using its ideas to help her patients make life changes (thanks, Deb). It was an ideal read to usher in a new year, a new decade and a new phase in my career. Many of the change ideas were familiar to [...]
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Quantum physics meets dialogue

Bohm, D. & Nichol, L. (Ed). (1996). On Dialogue. New York: Routledge. During his career as a theoretical physicist, David Bohm’s writings and lectures took side trips into dialogue and collective thought. In this book, editor Lee Nichol compiles Bohm’s ideas to suggest a coherent theory of co-creation of meaning. There is a flavor of [...]
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Best vision of ideal culture

Senge, P.M. (2006, Rev.). The Fifth Discipline. New York: Currency Doubleday. Senge started a movement with this book, which outlines the first five disciplines (there may be more, he says) that are required to create a “learning organization.” Members of a learning organization understand how they create their reality and how they can influence it. [...]
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