Tag: context

  • Burnt Out on Goodness

    Burnt Out on Goodness

    It feels a little like I’ve fallen out of the paradigm and I have a hard time finding my way back in. There are so many deep beliefs in organizations that I don’t believe anymore. For example, I have a hard time believing that organizations follow a purpose or that they have “values”. I actively…

  • Context stewardship

    Context stewardship

    When discussing what makes organizations work, we often focus on the visible things: decisions, roles, strategy, tools. But beneath all that is something quieter – something we rarely name, even though it shapes everything: context. The context is made up of a lot of different parts – our relationship bonds, our trust, the shared rhythms, the rhythms of…

  • Do we need decisions?

    Do we need decisions?

    This is a provocative article – and maybe I don’t mean it as strongly as I will make it sound. I’m writing this article more to prompt thinking and to open ourselves to the possibility that things could be completely different. Let’s start with a useful distinction that we make in the world of sociocracy.…