Soren Andersson is a thoughtful environmentalist (hopefully, one day it will be the people not caring about sustainability who are the minority and will need a special term), who blogs at http://sorenandersson.com/. It’s well worth a read – and not only because he reviews New Normal Radical Shift! Though that’s a good reason too.
Here’s an extract from the ‘About Me’ section:
“It is alarmingly clear that we really need a transformational change in the way we live on this planet. Some people have realized that if our children and their children are going to have any chance of a life quality close to ours, we cannot continue to ‘overuse’ our planet the way we currently do.”
In this blog, he picks up on the simultaneous absurdity and lack of humanity in the term ‘human resources’, and the mechanistic metaphors for human organizations, lifting this quote from New Normal Radical Shift:
“People [in business theory] became ‘human resources’, and their motivations divorced from strategic consideration, placed in a separate category, hived off to the HR department and consigned to a single patronizing paragraph in the annual report about ‘the most important asset’, without acknowledgement of the fact that this precious asset also happens to generate all the others…”
If you want to know more about Soren, you can follow him on Twitter, at @sorenande
And a happy new year, everyone!
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