Nice find from Kevin Harris who blogged the Republican’s digs at Barack Obama’s community organizing experience: George Pataki: ‘He was a community organizer. What in God’s name is a community organizer? I don’t even know if that’s a job.’ Then former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani delivered his own snickering hit job. ‘He worked as a community organizer. What? Maybe this is the first problem on the resumé,’ mocked Giuliani. A few minutes later, in her acceptance speech for the GOP vice presidential nomination, Sarah Palin declared, ‘I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except …
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Recently Karen Sella posted a request to the OSLIST among other places for books that are about being human Today she posted the list. Here is your new life reading program! Playing and Reality, D. W. Winnicott Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment, D,W. Winnicott Sexual Personae: A History of the feminine from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia The World of Pooh, A.A. Milne The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abrams The Synthesis of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo, The Inner Journey Home: Soul’s Realization of the Unity of …
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So it seems that we are having a federal election here in Canada. I’m a little interested in democracy and as I\ve had two phone calls today, I thought I might as well keep some notes here about my experience with the local candidates. Today John Weston’s comapaign called me. Weston is running for the Conservatives here in West Vancouver – Sunshine Coast – Sea to Sky Country. So I’ll admit upfront that I’m prejudiced here – I haven’t ever voted Conservative, and that isn’t likely to change in this election. I did however find the experience …
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I’m working a lot with communities of practice these days, or more precisely, teams and groups that aspire to becoming communities of practice. In seeking to be simple about the process of moving from a group to a deeper community, I’ve been designing meetings using this map, to ensure that we give equal weight to work, relationships and co-learning. In my experience, when we do that we set the conditions for a group to become more cohesive and to discover new learning and emergent solutions to the issues on which they are working. This is a design tool, a …
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I have a stack of books I am working my way through this summer, and they are all written by friends. I think this is pretty remarkable actually. From the top down, here is what’s on my reading table: Finding the Sweet Spot by Dave Pollard. This one just arrived this evening, although I read a proof that Dave sent along. It’s typical of his writing, and will be a familiar tome for regular readers of his blog, How To Save The World. The book outlines a path for creating a life of sustainable work and enterprise using …