by Philip Boxer An earlier blog on dilemmas as drivers of change introduced the notion of an impossibility lying between the horns of a dilemma: These impossibilities emerge in the course of our efforts to…
Category: ethical challenge
by Philip Boxer The subtitle of Rabbi Tony Bayfield’s book on ‘Being Jewish Today‘ is “Confronting the Real Issues”. What might ‘the Real’ mean within the context of Lacan’s work? The diasporic way is referenced…
by Philip Boxer Two groups are meeting virtually online every few weeks. Group S shares journal material with each other between meetings. Group N does not. The journals themselves are ‘split-screen’, tracking participants’ progress on…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD I am writing this blog to clarify the implications of the distinction between the small-s symbolic and the big-S Symbolic which is present in a number of previous blogs: Difficulties…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD Yiannis Gabriel has written a paper on psychoanalysis and organisation studies.[1] He usefully distinguishes two epochs: A first epoch, defined by the practice of clinicians ‘psychoanalysing organisations’ through the metaphor…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD A colleague of mine, Larry Hirschhorn, had the following to say about his experience of the difficulties of ISPSO members speaking to each other about their differing readings of…
In considering what we can learn from Lance Armstrong, I argued that aside from the moral outrage, we needed to consider if he has something to teach us about the nature of situational resistance –…
I am particularly interested in organisations that must operate in turbulent environments, in which client-customers must be responded to one-by-one, each demanding a different response designed to address their particular situation. We see the need…
The theory of the enterprise developed based on a largely static and ‘closed’ ontology. This meant that the top management of such an enterprise was assumed to be committed to a form of mental model…
The blog on Requisite Authority introduces a diagnostic tool that examines the different possible forms of congruence between role and task, depending on how an enterprise defines its boundaries and its relationships across those boundaries….