 By Shae Hadden | Bio
My life is my game—no one else’s. And I create the rules. What freedom,
what choices, what responsibility! Playing ‘by the rules’ means playing
according to choices I’ve made about what’s ‘best’ for me. And that’s
left me in a quandary, because many ‘old rules’ don’t fit anymore. It’s
time to examine them, keep the ones that still suit me and replace any
unworkable ones. So here I am, wondering how to pick and choose from
the rules I have been playing by. Yet is it possible for us to know what choices, what rules will be ‘right’?[ Read More]
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In the late 80s, Anne Wilson Schaef and Diane Fassel wrote a book called The Addictive Organization.
While I have a very different experience and theory than what they were
proposing, I think their metaphor was perfect. For me, the idea that an
organization or society can become ‘addicted’ is not a metaphor. I
believe, like Charles Horton Cooley, that “Individuals and
organizations are not separate phenomenon; they are the collective and
distributive aspects of the same thing”. The way I express this idea is
that “the ego is to the individual what the culture is to the
organization (or society”). What I am saying is that, from a phenomenological perspective, the ego
and culture are both self-referential structures of interpretation. [ Read More]
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I have written about resignation on several occasions. I think we need
to remember this is a condition in which we give up, but do so in a way
that hides the fact that is what we are doing. Resignation is a big
part of what we think of as the ‘human condition’ and, in my opinion,
it can become more pervasive as we age. I frequently speculate on what
will happen if enough of us become resigned about something at the same
time. My view is that the resignation becomes the reality when this
happens. I am in Buenos Aires this week.[ Read More]
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I have been doing a bit of work in the area of corporate social
responsibility (CSR) lately. It is becoming a hot topic in
organizations and a lot of very committed people are thinking about how
to think about the mix of economic, social and environmental concerns.
Traditionally, the sole purpose of business as an economic enterprise
is to make a profit—and therein lies the problem. Yes, all would agree
that this purpose includes being ethical, honest and responsible for
stakeholders directly related to the organization and its activities.
The fact is that business today is the predominant institution in the
world—in terms of resources, governmental influence, technology and
capacity to bring about change. Whether business has been a major
contributor to the problems in the world is arguable. More importantly,
it most definitely must be a major part of the solutions. Until recently, CSR has been for many (though not all) companies either
a necessary component of public relations or a sincere project to find
new ways to work and do ‘the right thing’.[ Read More]
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