? does this woman look like a radical to you ?

You tell me ... does this woman look like a radical organizational thinker to you? Me neither, but I was wrong. Try these quotes on for size.

"most people have a desire to love their organizations. They fell in love with the identity that is trying to be expressed. They connected with the founding vision. But then we took this vital passion and institutionalized it. We created an organization" ...

Wait, it gets better, or worse, depending ...

"people who loved the purpose grow to disdain the institution that was created to fulfill it. Passion mutates into procedures, rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we have policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints that squeeze the life out of us. The organization is frozen in time. We see it's dead and bloated form and resent it for what it prevents us from doing" ...

As a thinker / writer / advocate for almost 35 years now, Meg Wheatley's 'landmark' book Leadership and the New Science : Discovering Order in a Chaotic World gathers up a lifetime of teaching, researching, observing and challenging the status quo. All I can say is ... Ouch! or did I say that already? okay, maybe damn? I'm sorry, but what's not to get about this?

dlc

ps. this might be a really bad idea right now, but as I have a 75 minute drive up over the Malahat to Camp Imadene to pick up some of Lambrick's senior high kids from a work week I plan to listen to a podcast of Frank Viola and George Barna discussing their book Pagan Christianity? exploring the roots of our church practices. Might be just enough to push me over the edge, not good, if you know the Malahat!