On the blog Ask A Manager, author Alison Green offers job-seekers and employees advice on interacting with their supervisors, managing relationships with colleagues, and developing their careers. A few weeks ago, Green responded to a question from someone who had forbidden an employee from taking time off to attend their graduation. The letter-writer had granted […]
Being right and doing wrong
Davontae Sanford gets to go home now. After nine years trapped in the Michigan prison system after a false conviction, the 23-year-old gets to go home now. ‘It’s about time. It’s too bad nobody listened years ago… so this kid wouldn’t have to spend so much time in prison for a crime he didn’t do.’ […]
John Newton, Zacchaeus, and a Life Beyond Complicity
This year, I told Twitter, I want to stable Rudolph and his red nose. I don’t want to hear the angels talking about peace and goodwill. With a nation still unwilling to comprehensively address abusive policing and community distrust as youth have asked, angelic pronouncements about peace feel premature, if not presumptuous. Over the weekend, I read through the goodwill messages that […]
Reader Review 12: Systems and Progress
The Reader Review series was a 2014 experiment in rounding up of some of the most thoughtful or provocative articles and videos I came across online. I’m still deciding whether to continue it in 2015, but either way, this will be the last edition of the year. Thank you for reading along with me! Brentin Mock draws a […]
On #NMOS14, Ferguson, and Rooting for a New World
This post took me three weeks to prepare. There’s so much to say, and the word-containers I’m drawing together feel far too narrow and too shallow to hold that “so much.” The community of Ferguson, MO, has been in grief since August 9, and that grief, first re-presented as aggression, then analyzed from afar, and dismissed by the […]
Resource: The Berkana Institute’s Theory of Change
A reference tool for all change-makers: The Berkana Institute, founded by Margaret J. Wheatley and Deborah Frieze, works in communities to build their resilience while their group, environment, or society transitions from one social structure to another. The short video below describes Berkana’s “two loop” theory of change. One thing I appreciate is their transparency about the […]
