Thoughts on Vaclav Havel’s – The Memorandum

Last evening, 11 friends came over to read Vaclav Havel’s popular play, The Memorandum.  We read it as an investigation into organizational life which, though written about the bureacracy of Communist Czechoslovakia, had been described as all too universal.
The basic premise of the play is that a new language is being introduced to speed office communications. [...]

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Inevitable Questions

I guess it has been my own private defense against meaninglessness to ask business people for their stories. How do you make meaning of your work? What are you really up to? It has been a way to engage, through my various careers as a hotel manager, reenginer, instructional designer, executive coach, and management consultant.
And [...]

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