Organization as Transformer

Organization means “the act or process of organizing, the arranging of parts in an organic whole”. When Others and you are dancing, transforming, you are organizing something into being. Or work within it, try to change it, or meet it on its own terms.

Everything is organized, from insects to angels, soil to solar systems. “Organization Development” was my work in large corporations for many years. If we think of really large organizations as giants, the stories tell us that giants have maps, resources, can help you travel fast, and you get them interested by asking the right questions.

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Meat and Salt: Equinox

When I first began thinking about Shakespeare’s King Lear and arrogance, I looked in the text for the youngest daughter’s response to her father’s [...]

Meat and Salt: Equinox2024-08-17T23:31:30+00:00
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Arrogance

My Shakespearian actor husband, Chuck Wilcox, began his Boulder Colorado Shakespeare Festival career playing Kent in King Lear. Kent is a truth-telling peer and [...]

Arrogance2023-04-12T16:37:12+00:00
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Sharing ACI Processes: Associated Consultants International

I belonged to Associated Consultants International (ACI) for thirty-five of the organization’s 40 years. ACI was created to help consultants continue to learn, share [...]

Sharing ACI Processes: Associated Consultants International2023-04-12T16:58:10+00:00

Attitude: Unto All Generations

Many personal conflicts seed and grow from conscious and unconscious acceptance of ancestral conflicts. Until we understand our inheritance we can be trapped inside [...]

Attitude: Unto All Generations2024-08-17T23:31:57+00:00
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Attitude: Deep Roots, Dangerous Webs

Looking inside E for Engage means exploring Attitude. Don’t underestimate this word. Attitude is the key that unlocks the conflict. Two attitudes, at the [...]

Attitude: Deep Roots, Dangerous Webs2024-08-17T23:32:03+00:00

Role Training

Embarrassed both by their conflict’s Root Cause, and the two unhealthy Webs they had created, the two supervisors in Case Study #1 (see below) [...]

Role Training2024-08-17T23:32:06+00:00
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Symptoms, Sources, Solutions

The first task in conflict management is to notice you are in one – either by recognizing your own symptoms or those of others [...]

Symptoms, Sources, Solutions2022-09-10T20:49:19+00:00
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Working the Edge

Case Study #1: Twenty Years of Baggage Question 1:  When did you first become aware of, get to know each other? [...]

Working the Edge2022-09-10T20:50:19+00:00
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Tug of War

Three words can encompass a conflict: Root, Web and Edge. If you know these three things you can manage or even resolve most conflicts. [...]

Tug of War2021-04-07T01:46:33+00:00
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