PURPOSE:  WHAT AM I TRYING TO DO HERE?

 

Short answer: I have 2 goals

1) to showcase my research on orgs. (traditional pubs.)

2) to explore a nontraditional style of presentation

 

After many years of writing about organizations, publishing in print journals I am now joining the 21st century and exploring the web as a better (?) medium -- hoping it can improve both content (our understanding of organizations) and how it is published. I do this in the spirit of Imagin-iz-ation (Gareth Morgan). For visuals I use photographs,

 

Human evolution has produced organizations, which have in turn shaped the evolution of our lives on earth. Like other lasting  innovations these organizations both enhance and threaten the quality of our lives, so we need to understand and manage them a whole lot better. Words can be powerful tools for shaping images and ideas, which shape how we act. Other potent factors include: actions and interactions, routines and relationships, play, pictures, symbols, stories and songs, hopes and habits. 

 

It's a multi-media challenge. Words, however well-woven, are weak in the face of such a task. Can words with pix do better? I say we should try, see, and try again.

 

Pix, like words, like poems, can suggest ideas and questions -- indirectly, impliciitly. Swinging back and forth between tacit and explicit, allusions and conclusions, seems better than either one as a way to insight, learning, and knowledge (Nonaka et al.). This "museum" project is my way of experimenting with an alternative to traditional academic and commercial publishing, 

 

Maybe (I hope) others will be provoked to do

better than this. Maybe they/you already are! 

Who? Where?  Let's connect. 

Let's encourage new styles

of inquiry and reporting 

 

Best wishes

 

Barry Sugarman

 

ORGmuze 

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