I got\u00a0 a wonderful e-mail this morning from an old friend, Jim McLaughlin.<\/p>\n
In it he said:<\/p>\n
“I love this marriage of science and heart.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It’s where the human potential movement meets good organisational practices.\u00a0 In fact, if people in organisations were enabled to be their best human selves – loving, forgiving, caring, open, courageous – there would be wonderful organisations.\u00a0 But somehow we change the rules of what is expected when someone brings their work self into the office\/hospital\/factory.”<\/span><\/p>\n Now why didn’t I put it like that!<\/p>\n One of the real sources of advantage is the ability to retain humanity and compassion while developing excellent organisational practices.\u00a0 However this is a trick that many organisations with ‘transactional’ rather than ‘transformational’ cultures have managed to miss.<\/p>\n On a good day I would like to think that the compassion and humanity that attracts so many of us to third sector would make this transformation trick a straightforward one to play.\u00a0\u00a0 However the evidence suggests that many organisations in third sector quickly become as transactional as so many of their private and public sector cousins<\/p>\n Thanks Jim<\/a>!<\/p>\n