Articles from the future
Our carefully crafted writings from the edge of the future
The Taste of Earned Peace
Last week, the world’s explosions echoed through our community work. What happens outside always finds its way inside. A good process cannot ignore this.
The Invisible Variable
Let me describe two meetings.
The Impossible Leader
Somewhere around 2015, something important started happening in how we think about leadership.
Transclude: The One Word That Explains How Real Change Works
There is a word I keep coming back to. It’s not widely known. You won’t find it in most leadership books. But it captures, in a single breath, the deepest principle of how living things evolve.
The Light Doesn’t Matter. Someone Cares.
So here we are. AI is breathing down our necks. We, the consultants, the organizational developers… we are attempting something strange.
Burnout Is the Wrong Word
There is a word we use for something we don’t understand. Burnout.
Appeal for an alternative by Joseph Beuys
Translated by B. Kleer for CENTERFOLD Magazine, TorontoAugust/September 1979 This appeal is directed to all people in the European sphere of culture and civilization. The breakthrough into a new social future can succeed if a movement develops in the European zones...
What Makes a Human-Centered Developmental Method Distinct?
Insights for Organization Developers and Consultants A Story of Six Physicians Six physicians stand by the bedside of a patient who has just died of cholera. Each one seeks to determine the true cause of death. The first says: "The infection was caused by the...
Driving Change with a Foggy Windshield
Have you ever driven a car barely seeing the road through a foggy windshield? It’s unsettling, isn’t it? Now imagine leading organizational change with that same lack of clarity—without truly understanding the culture of the organization you're...
A Mirror of Possibility: A Tale of Organizational Transformation
The crisp autumn air carried a hint of anticipation as I watched the senior leaders of the organization trickle into the secluded retreat center. It was an ordinary Wednesday turned extraordinary—a day stolen from the relentless march of deadlines and meetings. Their...
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