This is our last week in the Cambridge office – as of Monday, we’ll have moved to South Boston, in the Seaport area. Most of the IISC staff have been driving to work over the years we’ve been in Cambridge (with a few taking the bus or riding bikes). Once we’re in our new office, we’ll be switching to most of us on public transportation or on bikes. It’s good news for the planet! I’m looking forward to shrinking my carbon footprint. Thought you might enjoy this video!
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Aug/04/10//Linda Guinee//Liberation
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Are You Being Lazy Enough?
This is a re-post of a post from last summer, just as I returned from a sabbatical – seemed appropriate in the beginning of the lazy days of August… in hopes that we will all have some Lazy Days …
About ten years ago, I spent three weeks at Plum Village, a Buddhist monastery in Southern France. The time there was primarily spent in silence – with long periods of sitting meditation, walking meditation, and even working meditation. (No surprise, I struggled with over-working during working meditation!) One of the practices at Plum Village is that each week, everyone takes a “Lazy Day”.
Jul/07/10//Linda Guinee//Networks
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Network “Governance” Take Two
Yesterday, Steve Waddell wrote an excellent post on the Networking Action blog about initiating a network. In it, he talks about four lessons he’s learned in starting a network:
- Be passion-driven and work-focused
- Think “community-development” not “governance structure”
- Use leading tools
- Integrate reflection, learning and flexibility
Jun/30/10//Linda Guinee//Inspiration
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Staying to Create Change
I wanted to share this link to a short discussion by Pema Chödrön about the importance of staying with the hard stuff – not the story we create about a situation, but the underlying feeling itself – to create change. This follows along with previous posts I’ve made about the importance of “staying” – with conflict, in situations of privilege. The message being the same – the importance of learning to stay! And so I wonder how this applies to organizations and movements. I hear it this way – rather than trying to fix a situation too quickly, stay with it, learn about it, learn to live with the tension while we look for ways to create change. What do you think?
Jun/23/10//Linda Guinee//Networks
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Network Governance
A few of us at IISC have been talking recently about network governance – trying to gather what we’ve learned about what kinds of governance structures have worked with networks. It’s sparked a lot of questions – and I had the great fortune of meeting with the amazing Jessica Lipnack recently to ask her advice about what she would suggest. For those who don’t know Jessica, she and her husband Jeff Stamps have been working with and studying networks for over 30 years and have literally written the book (actually the BOOKS) on networks and working with virtual teams over these many years.
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