Bill Ellis comments: ” I don’t think we necessarily have to have shared beliefs to have community. My community of close friends working on many project together includes Christian Fundamentalists, […]
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Arthur Noll Instead of arguing the virtues of the systems that have been tried, lets try looking at relationships on a very basic level. To have a relationship at the […]
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by W… Three key perceptions which need to be better understood by all of us, especially in light of recent events: The classical Three Laws of Thermodynamics which, as Norbert […]
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Win Wenger I imagine each of us has something pretty special to say before it’s all over, but we never really get around to saying it. This time of sudden […]
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Arthur Noll Once again, I must disagree with Dee Hock. However, I also agree with him on something, as we will get to later in this article. But I want […]
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Steven Van Smith writes in response to Dee Hock’s Understanding the Industrial Age: “I agree with Hock’s assessment of reductionist and mechanistic thought. Cartesian duality has made ethics, and philosophy problematic. […]
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Timothy Wilken Responses Reader Steven Van Smith writes in response to Trust and True Community: “With reference to Arthur Noll’s comments on tolerance, I find that tolerance is the unconditional […]
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Leader-Follower
by Dee Hock Leader presumes follower. Follower presumes choice. One who is coerced to the purposes, objectives, or preferences of another is not a follower in any true sense of […]
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Arthur Noll In his essay Community Values, Dee Hock wrote: “In a true community, unity of the singular “one” and the plural “one” extends beyond people and things. It applies as […]
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Dee Hock I have long puzzled where mechanistic organizational concepts so wasteful of the human spirit and destructive of the biosphere originated, and why we are so blind to their […]
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