A lot gets thought and said about the capacity of leaders to ‘get-the-context’, as a form of interpretation of reality. This is one of the ‘essentialist’ qualities of a leader and leadership system that we discussed in relation to ‘pleasure’ earlier on. But organisations in crisis, that are stuck, that are not fulfilling their purpose are – in some respects…
There is something about envy in the dynamic of intimate innovation – as there is in any relationship. The absence of something good can be experienced as the presence of something bad; the absence of something bad is experienced as the presence of something good. This tendency has tell tale signs – the things we get snagged on – caught by,…
Maybe there is a link between envy and performance anxiety – will I be up to it? Can I include all of me in this relationship – if not what will I have to leave out? Perhaps, there is a particular envy of attunement – that you ‘know’ me better than I know myself – or at least there are things…
In Side Effects, Adam Phillips writes about the disctinction between revolution and rebellion. He describes a tension between conservation and renovation. Phillips writes, quoting Sartre: ‘‘The rebel’, Sartre says in his book on Baudelaire, ‘is careful to preserve the abuses from which he suffers so that he can go on rebelling against them’. The revolutionary changes the world. The rebel,…
From Wikipedia, accessed April 2012 Bid‘ah (Arabic: بدعة) refers to innovations in Islam. Linguistically the term means “innovation, novelty, heretical doctrine, heresy”. In contrast to the English term “innovation”, in Arabic, the word bid’ah generally carries a negative connotation, however it can also have positive implications. It has also been used in classical Arabic literature (adab) as a form of praise for outstanding compositions of prose…
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