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Organizational Consultation XXXII: The Appreciative Leader: From a 21st Century Perspective
[Note: Most of this essay was actually wirtten during the last decade of the 20th Century. The themes introduced, however, …
Tending the Fires of 21st Century Organizations
In this essay I am drawing a comparison between the fire that I tend in my living room hearth and the “tending” that is done by those leading dynamic and complex 21st Century organizations.
LOVE LINGERS HERE: INTIMATE ENDURING RELATIONSHIPS XI. STORMING IN AN ENDURING RELATIONSHIP
The second phase that characterizes most developmental plates involves conflict about what the relationship is and should be and/or about the relative influence which each member of the couple should wield in working on specific developmental tasks. In many cases, couples confront the unreality of their idealized images of the relationship.
Four Assumptive Worlds of Psychopathy IV: The World of Social Deviation
Could the pathology be traced to the social structure or could the pathology be just a convenient social construction used by a specific society to discourage or thwart the display of certain behaviors?
Leading into the Future III: From the Pendulum to the Fire
This essay concerns a critical concept as we prepare to lead into the future: the changes we are now experiencing are not reversible.