Exploring resistance as a form of generative meaning-making — If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite — the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment — is a source of dismay. There is, indeed, a fire burning over the earth, taking with it plants and animals…

A Tentative Manifesto for the Future of Organizations — 5 — Introduction In the wettest place in the world, people grow ‘living’ bridges out of tree roots that can stand strong for centuries. The living bridges of Meghalaya were grown, not built. Ficus elastica, a species in the fig genus, has aerated roots that can be tied, twisted, and shaped into bridge-like…

Any thought, word, deed, or relationship that is life-affirming is regenerative. — I am taking a detour from my series on a tentative manifesto for organizations (I have written three parts so far: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) to write a little about my perceptions on regeneration. …

Designing Imagination Infrastructure within Organizations — We are living in what the Greeks called the καιρóς (Kairos) — the right time — for a “metamorphosis of the gods,” i.e. of the fundamental principles and symbols.’ ~C. G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self (1958). Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and…

Building Networks and Communities for Impact — One doesn’t sit down and chalk out a narrative and then start living it. One lives into the narrative through daily choices, decisions, and actions; through listening to diverse voices and worldviews in generative dialogues, through sensemaking and seeking collective wisdom from a place of radical care and compassion. We…

Embracing fearless imagination and visionary existentialism — When the waves come crashing over seawalls and washes away cities and its millions, when forest fires consume and advance, when artic ice melts to nothing, will organizations be proud to have captured the largest market share? When there are no resources to draw from, when civil wars threaten, and…

This is a follow-up to the first part of this article. This is a further exploration of a very tentative manifesto. — It is nothing short of a miracle how a single celestial object can be host to so many landscapes, life forms and ecosystems. We live in a “world of worlds”, all of which coexist within this barely noticeable, lonely rock revolving around itself in an otherwise dark, cold, silent infinity…

This is work in progress, an exploration of possibilities. This is the work of communities. I’m just hoping to stir some thoughts and start some dialogues… — I could have also named the article “A Tentative Manifesto for Organization of the Future.” I chose to name it the way I did because I believe that the very future of organizations rests on re-imagining their foundational narratives, their raison d’être.

Belonging and Generative AI in an Age of Separation — Title inspired by this TED talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie “Narrative is one of the ways in which knowledge is organized.” ~Toni Morrison I am commencing with two examples: one on belonging in the workplace and one on chatGPT (generative AI). They may appear to be completely unrelated but actually…