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...

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 of the...

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 in...

Congratulations to Crooked Timber. One year old on July 8. There is a certain culture of blogs that started about one year ago. Can't quite put my finger on it but there is something about them.

Accordng to this weekend's Australian Financial Review, corporate executioners have a tough time [payment required]. On one level, chriscurnow.com finds it pretty hard to work up a lot of sympathy for people who wield the axe in corporations. They take the money, they...

For all those times when you just need 10 minutes break from work... (via Crooked Timber)

Congratulations to Scribblingwoman on reaching her first anniversary. Makes you reflect anew how recent the blogoshpere is and how rapidly it has grown. Kottke recently noted that "A Google search for "blog" returns 46 million items". "0 - 46 million in five years....

Sometimes the things we do to protect our health don't work out exactly the way we expect. Today didn't start out that well for me. As I have attempted to do every weekday morning for the last 22 years, I turned up at the local swimming pool this morning. I went...

Apologies to anyone who read and was offended by a comment that someone left at chriscurnow.com today. I just logged on to check the site statistics and found a couple of new comments had been posted. Now I know there are lots of you out there who look at...

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