New organizational buzzword for 2015 – Holacracy.

It comes with a catch tagline:

“Zappos just abolished bosses”

Given the growing decrepitude of traditional hierarchical organizational models, the inability to communicate effectively across the intransigent silos, bloated bureaucracies, and the knee-jerk defensive responses like “that’s not how we do things here”, “if we didn’t build it, it’s worthless” … that are so toxic to innovation, it is not surprising that more radical approaches are now the vogue.

In one regard, it’s the technology that’s forcing enabling this.  Social technologies, super-computing grid infrastructures, cloud services, platforms and ecosystems all lend themselves to anomaly responses which call for immediate access to *that* person who knows how to address *that* problem, not tiered escalation paths designed to funnel and optimize problem resolution for 1000s of *that* problems that used to … Continue reading →

You have to admit, even if all of this is a construct for some seemingly unknown purpose, this is an incredible world we’re inhabiting. This spontaneous creative Force we’re engulfed in and intrinsically interwoven into is absolutely spectacular despite all the obstacles we encounter.

That there’s an invasive parasitic force at work trying to gum up the works and usurp this magnificent design and claim whatever weirdness it simulates as some sort of alternative reality is absolutely ludicrous, yet this is the contest humanity and our planetary existence finds itself in.

What is wonderful and should be the center of our focus and attention is the magnificent power of true Creation and its stunning beauty, intricacy and unlimited potential. We’re only just discovering its wonders, but as we do Creation itself becomes more manifest in new and amazing ways as we respond in conscious awareness and resultant responsive actions.

This so dwarfs the puny efforts of these measly low density … Continue reading →

Almost two centuries ago, a Russian intellectual from a wealthy family travelled to Western Europe to study philosophy and the Arts. This really wasn’t novel or unusual; at that time most Russians of a certain class had the opportunity at some point in their lives to visit, live, travel in Europe, the Middle East, or Asia and a good number used this time studying and listening to lectures from “the Masters” (Kant, Hegel, Comte…)

So Ivan Kireevsky was in good company as he travelled through Germany and France, attending courses at the great universities along the way, resting and recharging with a multitude of his fellow countrymen at their country houses, in taverns, at clerical retreats.

Yet, despite the seemingly idyllic, luxurious surroundings of this interlude, Kireevsky returned to Russia shocked and appalled. For in the West he had encountered the Industrial Revolution at its heyday…and he was horrified. Slums, refuse in … Continue reading →

ABC……GOD.

by Sophia Love     2/4/2015

What’s stewing and brewing in this head lately is this:

If

A. The being called “god” has no greater power than I.

And

B. I am the Master of my life, responsible for all of it.

Then

C. What is the difference between a being who imagines itself to be god and a being who imagines itself to be human?

I think that answer may be found in belief, aka knowing.

Although I stopped kneeling to any god as soon as I left my family of origin, I operate at times with hesitancy; struggling and searching for that one thing/person/moment/institution/situation with only my best interests at heart, that/who is capable of caring for them (my best interests) and making it all better.  This is what humans do.

If I were a god being I would simply get it done (my best interests).  I … Continue reading →