Newsletters

In my Occasional Newsletters I explore ideas, topics and issues about living in organisations – what it’s like for us, how we might do it better and in particular how we might get the Personal Job Alignment we seek.  I look to comment on and discuss the ideas that arise in contemporary publications; what are the underlying assumptions that people make about work, about organisations as such and about how we live in them.

In the history of humankind, hierarchical organisations are still relatively novel. They seem to require types of relationships between us as people that are different and we need t understand what those differences are and what they imply for how we are in the world.

This page contains all the Newsletters to date.  If you’d like to subscribe, complete the box at the bottom of the page.  Enjoy reading and let me have feedback at ian@thinking-it-through.com

2006

  • [pdf] – December: A Guide to Having Fun at Work, Part One – Introduction

2007

  • [pdf] – January: A Guide to Having Fun at Work, Part Two – Seeing Ourselves at Work
  • [pdf] – February: A Guide to Having Fun at Work, Part Three – Seeing Our Role at Work
  • [pdf] – March: A Guide to Having Fun at Work, Part Four – Seeing Our Organisation
  • [pdf] – April: A Guide to Having Fun at Work, Part Five – More on Seeing Our Organisation
  • [pdf] – May: Some Thoughts for Leaders and OD Professionals
  • [pdf] – June: Getting all your ducks in a row may be OK if your employees are ducks…
  • [pdf] – September: From being thought of as a duck to being thought of as an asset-is that better?
  • [pdf] – October: Leaders and alignment: lessons from Chelsea and Formula 1
  • [pdf] – November: The moral responsibility to be clear about roles and responsibilities- a proposition
  • [pdf] – December: More on roles and responsibilities

2008

  • [pdf] – February: ‘Putting lipstick on the pig’ or taking our personal leadership responsibilities seriously
  • [pdf] – April: Fraternite: You will be my brother or I will kill you
  • [pdf] – May: Dickens on alienation
  • [pdf] – June: He who has a why to live can bear almost any how
  • [pdf] – August: Why do you spend your labour on that which does not satisfy-a Biblical consideration
  • [pdf] – September: ‘Managerial expertise turns out to be one more moral fiction’
  • [pdf] – November: ‘Are we systematically but inadvertently destroying social cohesion in our lives in organisations?’
  • [pdf] – December: Do corporations have to behave like psychopaths?
2009
  • [pdf] – February: How far do we have to compromise? The bargain that is employed work.
  • [pdf] – June: Service: are we up for it?  Are we up to it?
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