by chriscurnow | Jul 14, 2004 | Uncategorized
Anil Behan runs a great site over at Orgdyne as well as the Orgdyne mailing list. Orgdyne is the place to go for discussion about the often hidden, unspoken and sometimes, ugly, dynamics in organisations. Anil’s latest posting is an interview with Manfred Kets...
by chriscurnow | Jul 14, 2004 | Uncategorized
Just came across Taegan Goddard’s site. For those of you who like to keep up with trivia from the US political campaign, here are some recent comments he attributes to Democrat nomination Kerry’s daughter Alex: Top three things said by Kerry’s...
by chriscurnow | Jul 13, 2004 | Uncategorized
This PBS Frontline program re-broadcast on the Australian ABC program Four Corners on Monday night is chilling viewing. It follows on from our commentary on NASA a few days ago where we observed that an organisation can become poisonous. NASA, at least has high ideals...
by chriscurnow | Jul 11, 2004 | Uncategorized
Images of Organization – Gareth Morgan Morgan presents a methodology for analysing organisations using the notion of metaphor. He argues strongly that developing metaphors "create ways of seeing and shaping organizational life." After a brief overview...
by chriscurnow | Jul 9, 2004 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t caught up with it, BOSS magazine has a nice roundup of news from the journals each month. Unfortunately they don’t put the roundup on the website which is a pity. Also unfortunately, one of the articles that caught my eye this month Lessons...
