Category: Organization Management

  • NYC Covid School Iterations

    After a [predicted] spike in covid cases in NYC starting Sept. 25-27 and by some accounts putting us back to March 13th numbers over the past weekend, city government appears to be testing an approach of allowing or restricting hot spot area according to zip code. On one hand, families I work with in East…

  • Opening the Conversation on Reopening Schools

    I’m listening, from the part of occupied Lenape lands called New York City, from East Harlem where the sirens and refrigerator trucks left and left us pandemic poverty without resolving the struggles of redlining and gentrification that were here before them. I’m listening, by which I also mean reading and watching, as the conversations of…

  • Reads the week of October 28th

    Logging some of what I’m reading. Aside from all the global news, details on local laws for running different kinds of businesses, and chapters in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff and Radical Transformational Leadership by Monica Sharma, I’ve been devouring web articles this week. And was feeling anxious about losing track of them…

  • something old, something new

    Networked self, domination to partnership relationships, crews and congregations and communities… One of the too many tabs I have open right now is a Medium article from the Enspiral publication collection: https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/microsolidarity-part-2-a-theory-of-groups-and-groups-of-groups-7c6e7ce63eda I’d been looking at the publication format on Medium, picked Enspiral since I’m looking at their work for other research anyway, and have now…

  • Agile, Culture Creation, and Self-directed Community

    This post shares a long draft of an essay which later became an article published in the Cutter business journal’s 2019 special issue on applications of Agile. I’d been asked to share about the Change-Up process, and I’m grateful for folks across the network sending stories so I could include use cases from a variety…