One of the most important points to make about orgs is that they tend to develop internal cultures. In the case of many big organisations, including many corporations and governmental orgs, they develop a particular culture deliberately. Whether they do it deliberately or not a culture develops and within that particular attitudes and particular ethical…
Year: 2012
The failure of intentions
I’m interested in people’s intentions within organisations, in the sense that I have often found them to be irrelevant to what the orgs do. It is easy for us to be convinced that our intentions count for a lot, yet we see orgs (the World Bank for example) that neither do what they claim to…
Temporary people in petrified orgs
This site is a way to collect my thoughts on organising as it is practiced. Some of it will be not much more than notes, other posts will be reposts of things said elsewhere, others will be more expanded. It is about the culture and methods and ethics of organisations. It will hopefully be a…
Spreading the gospel, or Chomsky Doesn’t Work
Today I found myself reading another article debating how to spread radical, anti-establisment ideas. It briefly outlined the options for spreading a more truthful version of what is going on in the world: a slow movement of persuasion, an outburst of street protest to force discussion, trying to infiltrate the mainstream media, and so on….