Michele Martin:

So we approach professional transitions from a place of wanting to know what we should DO and tend to constantly search for the RIGHT ACTION to take us toward our goals. We may pay some lip service to the emotions that go with these transitions, but we don’t tend to spend a lot of time on the emotional aspect because to be “professional” is to have control of our emotions, especially any emotions that threaten to become “messy”.

An interesting read on holding space for change. This has been my experience working on change within organisations. The emphasis is placed on action and dealing with change from a situational point of view rather than a people-oriented view (both are needed). Rarely is time spent on understanding the emotional impacts of change. Often there is little or no awareness of, and compassion for, liminal experiences.

Noam Chomsky on Being Truly Educated

Noam Chomsky on being truly educated:

Via Open Culture.

Seth Godin:

And, person by person, trait by trait, we build a broken organization because we believe that function trumps cooperation, inspiration and care.

Until it doesn’t, and then, all we’ve got left is a mess.

Amazing organizations are all about people. We need to be unashamedly humanistic in our approach to organisational life.

Celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, and systems theorist Gregory Bateson: There is a story which I have used before and shall use again: A man wanted to know about mind, not in nature, but in his private large computer. He asked it (no doubt in his best Fortran), ‘Do you compute that you will ever think like a human being?’ The machine then set to work to analyse its own computational hab…  
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How Empathy Can Change the World

Cultural thinker and writer Roman Krznaric, argues that empathy is a powerful tool for transforming and improving societies on a mass scale.