New York On a plane again after being mostly in New Orleans for two weeks, so I am again looking at the callow scowls of men and women speedily sleep walking through airport corridors as they rush on to these modern buses with wings trying to get from here to there. Brings me to notes …
Category: Personal Writings
Changing Habitat
New Orleans One of the “laws” of organizing I have often repeated to new organizers, frequently to blank stares, is that in organizing, “the beginnings prejudice the ends.” In English that is supposed to mean that the organizational structure and form often predetermine function. In simpler terms it is very, very hard to ever …
Getting Right With Tom Newbery
Baton Rouge Sitting in a Local 100 Leadership School in Baton Rouge at our hall I saw an email come across that looked like it was a message from Tom Newbery, a long time comrade, that I had lost touch with during a mess in Los Angeles. The bottom line of his message was all …