Cynthia Kurtz:
I’ve been waiting a long time to write this essay. I thought of it four or five years ago when I was writing a series of posts about natural storytelling. I never wrote the essay because other projects got in the way, but it has been at the back of my mind all this time. I’m excited to finally bring these thoughts to you.
It was well worth the wait. There are so many gems in this essay that looks deeply into The Neverending Story and what it has to say about storytelling. It’s quite a long read, but well worth the effort. A must-read for anyone who works with stories.
The whole area of why people do what they do, and what you can do to support them changing that, is an absolute passion of mine. It intrigues me, fascinates me and is such a complex area, I know it will keep my massively curious mind, engaged for the rest of my life.
My friend and colleague Kevin Bishop, has launched a new venture and started a blog. If you’re interested in enterprise change management, or change in general, this is well worth following.
Alex Swarbrick, writing for Changeboard:
Maybe there’s something inherent in OD which doesn’t help. Many of us like things that can be neatly labelled, wrapped up and put in a box; things that can be boiled down to a single concept, deconstructed and reduced to a single principle. OD is exactly the opposite. It’s about the bigger picture; it’s about the complexity of systems and the messiness of human interactions that make up organisational life.
A useful exploration of what organisational development is. As OD practitioners, it’s important that we help others understand what it is and why it’s important—and not get in the way of that.
Serversaurus, a Melbourne-based green cloud computing company, has purchased the customers and infrastructure of Brisbane based cloud hosting company Tract.com.
This is exciting news for my friends Marty and Nick. They’re good guys and deserve every success. I’ve hosted my own website and online infrastructure with them since 2005.
