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The Disease Of Being Busy

November 2016 4 Stories View Email Version
Editor's Note

Good day and welcome to the closing stretch of the year!  Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season.  This months perspectives are a bit of a smorgasbord :)  We hope you enjoy!

— Birju

The Disease of Being Busy

The number 1 cause of good, kind, compassionate people not showing up in that way? The perception of a scarcity of time. Here's a longer essay on the topic from wonderful folks at OnBeing.

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The Disease of Being Busy

What Comes After Teal? Radiant Organizations??

After the well-received book 'Reinventing Organizations' developed a thesis of organization as structure to evolve people, a few folks asked what comes next? Here's a reflection on one possibility, developed through work with groups that are developing the edge beyond teal (Turquoise? Coral?) ...

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What Comes After Teal? Radiant Organizations??

Reaching Across Red/Blue Divide at Work

If there was one major event this past month in the US, it may have been the elections. And yet, the average workplace looked to avoid engagement for fear of inviting discord. This document offers an alternative - depolarizing dialogue on political topics that allows perspectives to be in the open.

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Reaching Across Red/Blue Divide at Work

Why I Run My Business 'Love First'

A small business owner reflects on how 'business is personal' - it is a reflection of oneself at every step. Without which, sociopathic behavior is easily justified as simply following the guidelines of business. The essay includes the concrete and relational changes made to the organization to live such values over time.

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Why I Run My Business 'Love First'
Be the Change
How to 'not be busy'?  Invite the possibility.  How would you change your languaging?  Add new practice to life?  Change your schedule, and perhaps indeed your life?  This is not to say 'yes to everything,' but rather a shift in one's relationship to time - perhaps inviting in something new...

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