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Getting to Know You... Or Not Contributed by:
Brian HaymanWednesday, March 02, 2011 (2 years 74 days ago)
I’m rather taken with Arthur Schopenhauer's notion of mean distance and I’ve been conjuring with it ever since reading his fable about the porcupines. Figuring out how to find that place where we manage to keep ourselves warm without doing each other damage seems worthy of a little conjecture. After all, being social animals, we humans spend our entire lives trying to figure out how to get along together. And while we’ve been at it for a very, very long time, even the most sanguine among us would have to admit that it’s an enterprise with which we’ve had mixed success.
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If This Then That … Or Perhaps Not Contributed by:
Brian HaymanWednesday, December 08, 2010 (2 years 158 days ago)
NPOs and NGOs have, broadly speaking, enhancing the well-being of people as their raison d’etre. They are, briefly put, in the business of changing lives. Transforming social environments, therefore, means that people become both the input and the output of the work equation. This makes them somewhat untidy businesses because people are not indifferent to what becomes of them. They have minds of their own (which they are apt to change with disconcerting regularity) and have opinions about the means and the ends of their transformation. It is for this reason that agencies whose input is people have to be thought of as being engaged in “if-this-then-maybe-that” work.
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What Happens if We Just Talk? Contributed by:
Brian HaymanWednesday, February 24, 2010 (3 years 80 days ago)
When I reflect on my experience in and around governing boards, both as a member of and a consultant to them, I’d have to say that transactional conversations are the order of the day. In other words, the domain of action is pretty much confined to the domain of the known. But boards must provide direction for the future because how else are they to judge the appropriateness of management’s decisions in the present? In doing so, however, they cross the border between the known and the unknown and move from the domain of relative certainty into that of uncertainty. And it is here that the mode of conversation has to change from the relative tidiness of the transactional to the messiness of the transformational; from the exchange of information to, in Berthoff’s terms, the creation of meaning.
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