The blog on Requisite Authority introduces a diagnostic tool that examines the different possible forms of congruence between role and task, depending on how an enterprise defines its boundaries and its relationships across those boundaries….
Category: ethical challenge
My critique of Bion in Bion, Lacan and the-thing-in-itself was that he approached the relation to the-thing-in-itself as a transcendent form of knowing that moved towards ‘knowing’ in a Platonic ideal form – hence without-memory-or-desire…
Humberto Maturana, speaking at a workshop I attended many years ago, spoke of his experience under a military dictatorship in Chile. He spoke of being threatened by a policeman with a gun pointed at him,…
Strategy-at-the-edge is one on the four things needing to be kept in balance in a collaboration, involving sustaining a focus on the through-life needs of a patient’s condition. This involves sustaining a focus on the…
The diaspora in Deuteronomy referred to the scattering of the Jews amongst all people, although it was also used in the New Testament to refer to the dispersion of the Christians amongst foreigners. With reference…
The significance of trauma is that it is that which refuses to be known, not only because to remember the thing would be to be terrified, but also because there is something about it that…
Opening up the anxiety that the leader carries on behalf of the organisation is opening up second order/systemic/‘Kierkegaard’ anxiety … This is Kierkegaard’s ‘concept of anxiety’ (Princeton University Press, 1980), in which freedom appears before…
The individual can use a role as a defence against anxiety (Isabel Menzies Lyth 1988, “The Functioning of Social Systems as a Defence against Anxiety”, in Containing Anxiety in Institutions, Free Associations, London). For example,…