Progressive Organizational Movements – Authentic Organizations

Socialism, Capitalism, 5 Points of Ignorance, and Progressive Organizational Movements

Mar 31, 2021

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in Feminist Business, Progressive Organizational Movements, Rants Raves Ramblings & Reflections

Originally posted 4/14/2009 I just got done commenting on the blog of my colleague and blogging buddy Michael Roberto, a strategy professor at Bryant University. Michael blogged today about his concern that Americans (and by extension, students in the Business Schools where many of us teach) have lost faith in Capitalism. Michael’s answer to this problem, in so…

Communities of Commerce: Where the Marketplace is also the Meaning Place

Jan 11, 2012

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cv harquail

in “Social” Orgs & Media, For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Members’ connections to Orgs, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

Networks of people and organizations are usually either “markets” or “communities”. It bothers us that networks fit one or the other model of working together, because we envision something more –something both market and community — in one network. We are often disappointed when markets don’t exhibit a commitment to any values other than maximizing…

Authentic From the Start-Up: 4 Tips from Cindy Gallop and IfWeRanTheWorld

Oct 21, 2010

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cv harquail

in All about Authenticity, Brand(ing):Inside & Outside, Creating Authenticity, Diversity & Feminism, Organizational Design, Progressive Organizational Movements, Social Media, Web 2.0 & Org 2.0

If you were building an organization from the ground up, how would you “build authenticity in” from the very start? I had the chance to ask this question of Cindy Gallop, an entrepreneur and marketing/advertising/branding guru, who is the CEO of a start-up called IfWeRanTheWorld. IfWeRanTheWorld and Cindy have both been recommended to me by…

3 Dangerous Assumptions in Corporate Work-Life Policy

Oct 12, 2010

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cv harquail

in Employees/Individuals, Generative Orgs, Hypocrisy, Members’ connections to Orgs, Organizational Design, Progressive Organizational Movements, Work-Life-Meaning

Isn’t Corporate Work-Life policy great? Here we have a progressive set of programs and strategies that: Acknowledge that every employee is more than a worker, Recognize that she or he is also a ‘whole person’ with a life that extends outside the workplace, and Demonstrate that employees’ full lives should be respected and maybe even…

Is your organization flourishing or withering?

Sep 22, 2010

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cv harquail

in Diversity & Feminism, For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Organizational Change, Politics, Progressive Organizational Movements, Sustainability & Greening, Uncategorized, Work-Life-Meaning

Organizations are organic things — they are born, they die, they suffer and they thrive. But very few organizations flourish. Organizations that flourish are rare creatures. We find them where business goals are tied to larger purpose, where larger purpose is linked to community needs, and where individuals’ authentic selves are nourished by and engaged…

A Benevolent Perfect Storm for Progressive Organizational Movements

Apr 16, 2009

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cv harquail

in Employees/Individuals, For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Organizational Design, Progressive Organizational Movements, Sustainability & Greening

“A Benevolent Perfect Storm.” Isn’t that a lovely image? It comes from David Ellwood, dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, as quoted by Steve Lohr in his NYTimes article “With Finance Disgraced, Which Career Will Be King?” Ellwood hopes that one outcome of the collapse of social and monetary incentives to take a job…

Socialism, Capitalism, 5 Points of Ignorance, and Progressive Organizational Movements

Apr 14, 2009

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cv harquail

in Business & Mgmt Education, Claims vs. Behaviors, Diversity & Feminism, Organizational Theory, Politics, Progressive Organizational Movements, Rants Raves Ramblings & Reflections, Research & Science

I just got done commenting on the blog of my colleague and blogging buddy Michael Roberto, a strategy professor at Bryant University. Michael blogged today about his concern that Americans (and by extension, students in the Business Schools where many of us teach) have lost faith in Capitalism. Michael’s answer to this problem, in so…

Tools for Authentic Organizations: Dotmocracy

Mar 23, 2009

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cv harquail

in Claims vs. Behaviors, Creating Authenticity, Diversity & Feminism, Employees/Individuals, For Purpose/For Profit Orgs, Great Examples, Organizational Design

The end of “business as usual” Please, let us be coming to the end of “business as usual”. Conversations about whether MBA programs caused the financial crisis and what the future of capitalism should be suggest that ways of doing business that have long been seen as acceptable and even admirable are now being…

Tag: Progressive Organizational Movements