Ism’s

I want to explore a few of the Ism’s I think are holding us back from a deep and serious transformation of work.

[The slides from the recent talk I gave at BIF2016 last week in Providence, RI, with the notes from the talk. It’s more or less what I said.]

I will start with a disclaimer: If this is storytelling, it’s going to be a bunch of short stories, not a single tangled tale. This is more like a comedy routine than a novel.

Maybe more like Aesop’s Fables, which are short, but get at deep truths.

Tales told by a slave, some that we still recount to our children, thousands of years later.

I fear I don’t I have a single sustained narrative in me. But like Aesop, I have a long tally of tales to tell.

I want to explore a few of the Ism’s I think are holding us back from a deep and serious transformation of work.

If we are to better the future, we must disturb the present. — Catharine Booth